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Re: GYFT.COM: wonder why you'd never heard of it before?
by
crumbcake
on 06/06/2013, 11:52:22 UTC
This is a bit OT*, but the laziness of today's EULAs, TOS & privacy statements is getting absurd.  
If it's not enough that all contain "TO THE EXTENT NOT PROHIBITED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL GYFT BE LIABLE [for anything EVAR!]" disclaimers, these legalese-sounding webpages aren't even proofed before being published ("Please refer to our Terms of Sale [Add hyperlink to Terms of Sale] for the terms, conditions and policies ...")!  If people who write these things don't read them, do they really expect anyone else to?
And, of course, if
Code:
order deny,allow
deny from all
wasn't enough, we get more fail:

"IN NO EVENT WILL GYFT'S TOTAL LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, WARRANTY, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE, WHETHER ACTIVE, PASSIVE OR IMPUTED), PRODUCT LIABILITY, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHER THEORY, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE APP EXCEED THE FEE FOR THE APP (AS OPPOSED TO ANY OTHER FEES/COSTS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY FEES ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR DEVICE, THE COST TO PURCHASE AND OPERATE YOUR DEVICE, THE COST OF ANY GIFT CARDS OR THE COST OF ANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES PURCHASED WITH A GIFT CARD)."**

Yep, i get it.  "We're not liable for anything.  If logic fails, Gyft's liability shall not exceed the cost of this app.  Which is $0.  Thank you & good luck!"

**The "cap lock = cruise control for cool" obviously holds in legalese, meaning something like "We've seen other companies do this, so we ctrl C/Ctrl V'd it.  Nobody reads this shit, we certainly didn't, and we don't expect you to, either. Nevertheless, we wish to punctuate how damn important this is with our cap lock key."