internet terms-of-service
How to prevent internet company from changing Terms of Service?
<p>So you sign up on website.com, you click on the notorious <strong>I accept tos and privacy policy</strong> checkbox (many without reading it) and you pay for the service.</p>

<p>Month later, website changes their TOS page adding few new paragraphs without notifying you that allow them to bill you $10 every month.</p>

<p>When you complain, they say: Read our TOS, you agreed.</p>

<p>How can you prove and show the original TOS changed? That you never agreed to this version of tos at all?</p>

<p>You can use internet archival services <a href="https://archive.org/web/" rel="nofollow">like the internet Wayback Machine</a>.</p>

<p><a href="https://archive.org/web/" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/web/</a></p>

<p>You can take a screen shot of the web page of the terms you agreed to and post that screen shot to a third party image hosting web site like Flickr, Tumblr or Imgur. The purpose of the third party host is to provide an objective and reliable timestamp for the screen shot.</p>

<p>Alternatively (but perhaps less compelling) you could copy the text of the TOS and save it to a file again on a third party hosted service with a timestamp. Like Google Docs.</p>

<p>Check out <a href="https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/5081/how-to-prove-legally-that-a-user-actually-clicked-the-i-accept-for-tos-etc/">this question</a> that basically discusses the same topic from the other side – the website owner. Judging from WBT's answer over there it may depend on the judge whom he/she will believe when this case is brought to court and if neither parties have good evidence.</p>

<p>Ideally of course you saved a copy. But also the website owner would need to be able to show a copy, the exact revision of it when you signed up to be precise. But since the website owner obviously doesn't obey to the law who knows what will happen...</p>
