FabSwingers.com forum: Profile disclaimers

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Hi guys, can anyone clear this up for me - as far as i am aware, putting a warning or disclaimer on your profile is no use whatsoever. If anyone is using the pics for profit or as a means to gain profit then yes, you can sue or claim for damages as you own the rights to the images. If however they are beng used or collected for research or private 'use'

then there isn't anything you can do about it, whether you have a notice or not. Same problem with companies looking at your facebook or myspace accounts before hiring/ firing you. Does anyone have a definitive answer on this, as i can see some people could get rather upset in the future over such a matter?

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By *j_markCouple
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over a year ago

Totteridge/Whetstone

We've added a note about this in our FAQ which we've pasted below. We also now have an option on the privacy page to hide profiles from non-registered users. We would ask everyone with the "legal" notice to remove it and set their profiles to be private instead.

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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?

Our best advice is: Don't put on your public profile any pics you don't want strangers to see. Set them to private and PM to people you want to see them or set to friends only. Similarly, don't put any information on your public profile that you don't want people to see or Google. That will do what a toothless legal notice won't do, which is to keep the information you want to be private, private. Some people may put non-identifying pics on their public profile but keep face pics private or for friends, for example.

Tip: you can set your profile to be hidden from search engines on your privacy page but for various reasons (some search engines ignore the tag we use, for starters) common sense advice would be NOT to put any information on your profile (here, or on any such site) that could identify you! So for your own benefit, don't post phone numbers, real names or email / instant message addresses on your profile.

All the legal disclaimer does is take up extra space on our servers.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

it's meaningless profile padding as far as we can see...

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By *imfromGlasgowMan
over a year ago

er...guess

It does seem a bit strange that those hell bent on protecting their anonymity are announcing their willingness to go to court - with all the attendant publicity that'll bring.

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By *eznhannahCouple
over a year ago

leeds

i think we have the best warning ive seen have a look everyone should cut and paste it lol

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By *anetandNickCouple
over a year ago

Ross-on-Wye

As some of you know, we have had pictures stolen by a disgruntled former employee, then sent to all and sundry - including newspapers. One paper actually put their own copyright notice under a picture owned by us. When we asked our solicitor about it, he simply said "how much money do you want to spend - they're bigger than you are".

Basically, anything you post on the net has to be regarded as being in the public domain from a practical point of view, if not from a legal standpoint.

And by the way, we survived it, never lost any friends, gained some in fact.

Janet & Nick

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By *imfromGlasgowMan
over a year ago

er...guess

An advocate of my aquaintance describes commercial litigation as a machine. You go in as a pig and leave as a sausage

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

had a look at your profile but it wasn't the disclaimer that caught our eye

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