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Online agreements when registering for something?

  • 15-03-2006 12:11pm
    #1
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭


    hey folks,

    I'm sure we've all had to click "I agree" on a disclaimer or something like that, on a website, such as maybe boards -- I know I've had to do it lots of times!

    However, I'm not in the habit of reading them, because they're very cumbersome and often hard to understand -- and I'm sure that lots of people are the same.

    Which brings to mind the thought that, I don't know what I'm agreeing to!

    So, could those online agreements (example: http://nolin.boards.ie/vbulletin/register.php?action=signup) actually say something like "by clicking 'i agree', you are also agreeing to sign over your house to me"? And if so, how binding is that agreement?

    I'm sure they're only disclaimers for the most part, to cover the site legally, but surely if they're effective for that purpose (in that, for example, you aren't able to enter the site without first scrolling to the end of the agreement, and clicking 'i agree', so therefore if you admit to being on the site, then you admit to agreeing to it), then they can be abused in this way.

    Or are they really just back-up things, and don't really hold up in court?


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  • #2
    hullaballoo
    Administrators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,775 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭hullaballoo


    You mean you didn't read the disclaimer for this forum?

    Disclaimers are legally binding, otherwise no one would bother with them. Sure, they can say anything at all, but only with regard to excluding liability for the publisher. In other words, you cannot sign over you life/house, because for that you would need a contract, and therefore, consideration.

    Disclaimers are designed to limit liability where the reader should no better. Sometimes, they go over-the-top in my opinion, but that's the nature of these things.


  • #3
    besty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,010 ✭✭✭besty


    hullaballoo wrote:
    Disclaimers are designed to limit liability where the reader should no better. Sometimes, they go over-the-top in my opinion, but that's the nature of these things.
    AFAIK court's can look beyond unfair or unreasonable terms in these disclaimers.

    Still, with that said, they are obviously of legal sway judging by the frequency of them.


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