Leah Hudson Leva - Page 5
Freelance writer and researcher at TermsFeed
Leah is an editor and writer published by The Spinoff, The Urbanist, UrbDeZine, and Penguin Random House New Zealand. Leah loves to write about sustainable urban development, data privacy, mental health, and matters of the heart. She spends her time reading, walking her dog, and eating unreasonable amounts of chocolate.
Amendments to Terms and Conditions
You may have your legal agreements all neatly set up and have used good clickwrap methods such as tick boxes or "I agree" buttons to gain agreement to them. But what happens if you want to make an amendment or release a new version? Are your users still bound by your...
Legal requirements for collecting personal data
Once you've collected a good portion of user data, you are no doubt planning your next steps for using the data to give your business a marketing boost. Before you dive in, it's important to consider whether you've taken the appropriate legal steps to protect yourself and your business when you...
Can EU Startups Use US-based Cloud Platforms?
Cloud storage providers are becoming increasingly in demand, with companies like Dropbox growing at a fast pace. There are providers available around the world, with some in more reputable countries than others. The EU, however, has some relatively strict rules around what countries data is able to be stored in and...
Privacy laws in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is a rapidly changing and growing economic area, and with economic growth comes new pressures and needs for legal guidance. Privacy is becoming increasingly important to consumers, and if you are operating a website or app in Southeast Asia, there are a number of recently introduced pieces of legislation...
3 Key Legal Cases on Clickwrap
Clickwrap is becoming more commonly known as a legally secure and easy way of creating binding agreements with your users online, such as Terms & Conditions, Terms of Service or Terms of Use. There are a number of legal cases that have established the validity of clickwrap methods, however, and they...
Draft Limitation or Exclusion of Liability Clauses
Limitation of liability clauses are typically viewed by the courts as acceptable, while exclusion clauses are not. Courts in many jurisdictions look very carefully at these clauses, and so it's important to ensure that they are drafted reasonably and correctly or they might be overturned. In many Terms and Conditions agreements...