Did you stop and read these before updating?
While we all have been having great craic altogether with Snapchat’s new features that offer loads of pretty cool filters on videos, what many people might not have noticed is the app’s updated terms and conditions.
The new terms, which came into effect this week, state : “Many of our services let you create, upload, post, send, receive and store content. When you do that, you retain whatever ownership rights in that content you had to begin with.”
Phew…
However, there’s more.
Snapchat are now doing what a number of other apps have been doing, by asking users to agree with terms that gives them “worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, sub licensable and transferable license to host, store, use, display, reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, publish…and publicly display that content in any form and in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed).”
Basically, by accepting their terms and conditions you grant Snapchat and “our business partners the unrestricted, worldwide, perpetual right and license to use your name, likeness and voice in any and all media and distribution channels (now known or later developed) in connection with any Live Story or other crowd-sourced content your create, upload, post, send, or appear in.”
While this might not be new to anyone who has certain sharing apps installed on their phone, it’s worth bearing in mind before you press send.
You can read the full updated terms of service here.
