FabSwingers.com forum: Legal Disclaimers On Profiles

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

Grinds my gears people posting legal disclaimers on their profile. It is pointless and in many cases down right ignorant of the laws they are referring too (UCC 1-103 1-308 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED WITHOUT PREJUDICE refers to purchasing and negotiation laws in America, nothing to do with privacy. Plus Fabswingers is a UK company)

Your images are protected by copyright law AND if someone shares them in another forum they can also be arrested for distributing pornographic material, potentially placing them on the sex offenders list and the offender can be sued.

You cannot complain about a breach of privacy if you are posting images of an intimate nature on a public forum, a simple fact of law.

If you don't want images of you getting out, don't post anything that could identify you, place text across the image (user name) to watermark them.

Rant ends with this from the Fabswingers FAQ

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.

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

Can't say it really bothers me

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

Only bothers us when the “disclaimers” are longer than the profile.

One liner profile, three paragraphs of disclaimers.

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By *tirluvMan
over a year ago

the right frame of mind -London

Well that's certainly a relief to all of us here in the Sydney University Adult Research Department -just when we were starting to get a bit worried an all.

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By *HaRiFMan
over a year ago

Beyond the shadows.

Have you considered some might be putting it on as bit of a wind up

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

I know that the site owners would rather people didn't put that crap on their profiles as it takes up valuable server space

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

Is it Thursday already....

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

"Is it Thursday already...."

No but I want to legally complain under subsection 873952-3784227 paragraph 3 of the non existing legislation that it should be Thursday

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By *lan157Man
over a year ago

a village near Haywards Heath in East Sussex

how many people could actually afford to pay for any form of legal action that they are frothing at the bit to launch ! ( that's a rhetorical question). One of my women playmates actually goes as far as using the laughable disclaimers as a filter on the basis that the man has no judgement I suppose.

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

"I know that the site owners would rather people didn't put that crap on their profiles as it takes up valuable server space"

Seriously? I struggle to see how a few lines of text could take up that much space. A few profile pictures would easily exceed any disk space that is taken up even if everyone had that disclaimer on their profile.

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