[Wikia-l] Why is DOB required for registration?

[gil penchina]

I agree - we need to update the TOS- it's on my personal to-do list :-)

We are clearly a work in progress as a small company so feel free to  
point out these issues and we'll add them to the list.


Gil

On Sep 24, 2008, at 5:07 AM, "Jesús Martínez"  
<martineznovo at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Wikia Terms of Use doesn't mention DOB: "The only information that
> you need give is a username and password. (...) Therefore, any
> personal information you choose to give is not compulsory."
>
> In addition, There's no privacy policy talking about collection of
> information by google-analytics, quantserve and the advertising
> (mostly from cookies) There's no legal rules for that?
>
> 2008/9/24 Victor <dawormie at gmail.com>:
>> Additionally, there is this from Wikia.
>>
>> http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Terms_of_use#Collection_of_personal_information
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Victor <dawormie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Google probably get around that with this little clause...
>>>
>>> "2.3 You may not use the Services and may not accept the Terms if  
>>> (a) you
>>> are not of legal age to form a binding contract with Google, or  
>>> (b) you are
>>> a person barred from receiving the Services under the laws of the  
>>> United
>>> States or other countries including the country in which you are  
>>> resident or
>>> from which you use the Services."
>>>
>>> Refer Gil's first response about the non-profit 501c3...
>>> "Wikipedia(R) is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia  
>>> Foundation, Inc., a
>>> U.S. registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit charity."
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't know if wikia can do the same thing like google with a  
>>> clause like
>>> that, but if they don't have that clause then perhaps this is  
>>> wikia's way of
>>> having that clause.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:17 AM, John Beckett <johnb.beckett at gmail.com 
>>> >
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Jamie Hari wrote:
>>>>> Let's call a spade, a spade here.
>>>>> Wikia is doing the right thing; legally and morally.
>>>>
>>>> In that case it should be easy to insert a link to a page that  
>>>> briefly
>>>> explains your
>>>> assertion.
>>>>
>>>>> From Gil's comment, it sounds likely that the explanation won't be
>>>> digestible to
>>>> non-lawyers. That's no problem. Just state the facts: Regulation
>>>> such-and-such in
>>>> jurisdiction whatever, requires DOB for circumstances xxx.
>>>>
>>>>> I know this from years upon years of experience in many
>>>>> widely-varied online communities.
>>>>
>>>> There are probably lots of other-kinds of people like me who are  
>>>> not in
>>>> the habit of
>>>> registering at lots of communities and who are amazed to be asked  
>>>> DOB.
>>>>
>>>> I just clicked "create account" at Wikipedia and there is no  
>>>> requirement
>>>> for DOB,
>>>> yet they still have a privacy statement! I don't recall being  
>>>> asked DOB
>>>> for my
>>>> Google account (gmail and Google Groups). I'm not saying that  
>>>> Wikia is
>>>> wrong; I'm
>>>> pointing out that I have registered with several other  
>>>> organisations with
>>>> no DOB
>>>> requirement, so some explanation should be provided on Wikia.
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>>
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