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“As Is” Clause
An “as is” clause says the product or service is provided in its current state without extra promises about quality beyond what law still requires.
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AI Training Rights
AI training rights are license terms that allow a company to use your content or data to train or improve machine-learning systems.
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AI Training With User Data
AI training with user data means prompts, files, conversations or other user content may be used to improve or train machine-learning models.
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Arbitration Opt-Out
An arbitration opt-out is a limited process that lets some users reject a mandatory arbitration clause within a stated deadline and method.
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Broad Indemnification
Broad indemnification is a clause asking you to cover the company’s losses, legal costs, or claims arising from your use—or sometimes from wide related events.
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Bundled Consent
Bundled consent asks you to accept multiple purposes—or multiple documents—in one action, so you cannot easily agree to some parts and refuse others.
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Cancellation Friction
Cancellation friction means the company makes ending a subscription harder than starting it—through extra steps, limited channels, or retention flows.
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Consequential Damages
Consequential damages are follow-on losses—like lost profits or extra costs—caused by a problem, beyond the immediate direct loss.
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Continued-Use Acceptance
Continued-use acceptance is the claim that keeping using a service after a notice or update means you agreed to new or existing terms.
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Contract of Adhesion
A contract of adhesion is a standard agreement offered on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, with little or no room for the consumer to negotiate wording.
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Cookie
A cookie is a small piece of data a website stores in your browser to remember information across visits or requests.
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Digital-Goods Refund
A digital-goods refund is a return of money for software, media, in-app content, or other intangibles after purchase.
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Distant Mandatory Venue
A distant mandatory venue clause requires disputes to be filed in a far-away court or arbitration location.
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Do Not Track
Do Not Track (DNT) is a browser signal that asks websites not to track a user across sites; many sites historically did not honor it uniformly.
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Early-Termination Fee
An early-termination fee is a charge for ending a contract before a minimum commitment period ends.
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End-User License Agreement
An end-user license agreement (EULA) is a contract that sets the rules for using software or a digital product, including what you may and may not do with it.
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Feedback License
A feedback license lets a company use your suggestions or ideas without paying you or taking further permission.
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Final Sale
Final sale means the purchase is sold with little or no return or refund right under the store’s policy, except where law requires otherwise.
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Fine Print
Fine print is important contract or offer language presented in a way that is easy to overlook—often small, dense, or placed far from the headline promise.
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Force Majeure
A force majeure clause excuses performance delays or failures caused by listed extraordinary events outside a party’s reasonable control.
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Foreign Governing Law
Foreign governing law means the contract says another state or country’s laws will interpret the agreement.
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Free Trial
A free trial is a limited period of access without an upfront charge—or at a reduced price—that may convert to paid billing if not cancelled in time.
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Indefinite Data Retention
Indefinite data retention means the organization does not state a fixed deletion timeline and may keep personal data until an unclear condition occurs.
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Irrevocable License
An irrevocable license is a permission grant that the agreement says you generally cannot take back later.
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Jury-Trial Waiver
A jury-trial waiver is a clause saying the parties give up the right to a jury if a dispute goes to court.
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Liability Cap
A liability cap is a contract limit on how much one party may have to pay if something goes wrong.
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Mass Arbitration
Mass arbitration is the coordinated filing of many similar individual arbitration claims against the same company, often after class actions were waived.
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Money-Back Guarantee
A money-back guarantee promises a refund if stated conditions are met within a defined period and process.
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No-Refund Policy
A no-refund policy states that payments generally will not be returned once completed, subject to limited exceptions and applicable law.
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Non-Disparagement Clause
A non-disparagement clause tries to stop you from making negative public statements about a company, product, or people.
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Notice of Dispute
A notice of dispute is a required written message to the company describing a claim before arbitration or court filing may begin.
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Perpetual License
A perpetual license is permission to use content that, by its wording, does not expire.
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Prechecked Consent
Prechecked consent is a default-on checkbox or toggle that opts you into a permission unless you notice and turn it off.
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Recurring Payment Authorization
Recurring payment authorization is the permission you give a company to charge your payment method on a repeating schedule.
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Retroactive Contract Change
A retroactive contract change tries to apply new terms to conduct or periods that already happened before the update.
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Roach Motel Design
Roach motel design is a dark-pattern style where joining or buying is easy, but leaving, cancelling, or deleting is comparatively hard.
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Sign-In-Wrap Agreement
A sign-in-wrap agreement notifies users that creating an account or signing in means they agree to linked terms, often without a separate “I agree” checkbox.
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Small-Claims Carve-Out
A small-claims carve-out is an exception allowing some disputes to proceed in small-claims court instead of arbitration.
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Store Credit
Store credit is account value usable only with that merchant, often instead of a cash refund.
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Subprocessor
A subprocessor is a vendor hired by a data processor to help process personal data on behalf of a controller.
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Take-It-or-Leave-It Agreement
A take-it-or-leave-it agreement offers access only if you accept the company’s standard terms without negotiation.
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Termination for Convenience
Termination for convenience lets a party end the agreement without needing to prove a breach—often used by companies to close accounts at their discretion.
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Unilateral Modification
Unilateral modification is a clause allowing one party—usually the company—to change the agreement later without jointly rewriting it with the user.
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