FabSwingers.com forum: Disclaimers

By *rooperRed OP Man
over a year ago

Littlehampton

What is it with these disclaimers people put on their profiles about University of Sydney or "third parties"? The Sydney thing has been around for ages, do people really think they're running some sort of dodgy website research program?

By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

People probably put these disclaimers genuinely believing it's some kind of protection against their photos of profile being pinched and used elsewhere. It isn't as the following extract from the FAQS shows

We've noticed a legal disclaimer paragraph that some people have on their profiles. Should we have one too? What are they about? Do they do any good?

The "legal disclaimer" is pointless nonsense and all does is take up extra space on our servers. Please remove it if you have it on your profile. If you're worried about privacy please set your account to be hidden from non-registered users on your privacy page (this also hides it from search engines but may take a week or two to drop out of search) and remove the notice (and encourage others to do likewise).

Common sense advice would be NOT to put any information on your profile (here, or on any such site) that could identify you or that you don't want to become public! So for your own benefit, don't post phone numbers, real names or email / instant message addresses on your profile that people might see or "Google".

Some people may put non-identifying pics on their public profile but keep face pics private or for friends, for example.