{"id":728771,"date":"2010-05-18T14:47:30","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T18:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10005863"},"modified":"2010-05-18T12:08:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T16:08:08","slug":"groupon-shows-how-to-properly-explain-tos-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/728771","title":{"rendered":"Groupon Shows How To Properly Explain TOS Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/05\/051810-006-groupon-logo-thumb-240x152-40462.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/05\/051810-006-groupon-newsletter-thumb-639x495-40461.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Groupon is a daily deal sort of website, but the reason it&#8217;s on Consumerist today is because of how well it communicated some recent changes to its Terms of Service agreement. Consumerist reader Pureboy sent in a copy of the email he recently received where the website explained the changes in plain English, with examples.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"051810-006-groupon-newsletter.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/2010\/05\/18\/051810-006-groupon-newsletter.jpg?resize=639%2C495\" width=\"639\" height=\"495\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><br \/>\nWas that so hard, every other company that doesn&#8217;t bother? Keeping your customers up to date on what they&#8217;ve theoretically agreed to should be considered basic customer service.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to keep track of changes to TOS agreements on your own, try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tosback.org\/timeline.php\" >TOSBack.org<\/a>, an EFF blog that tracks 56 companies and alerts you when their lawyers change something in the fine print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Groupon is a daily deal sort of website, but the reason it&#8217;s on Consumerist today is because of how well it communicated some recent changes to its Terms of Service agreement. Consumerist reader Pureboy sent in a copy of the email he recently received where the website explained the changes in plain English, with examples. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-33An","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}