Sara Pegarella - Page 16
Widener University School of Law graduate, Managing Legal Editor at TermsFeed.
Sara graduated from Widener University School of Law in 2010, and has a B.A. in English/writing. After years of technical/legal writing and compliance consulting, she began focusing on editing, and managing teams of writers. She's also a certified Integrative Health Practitioner and health coach. When not finding typos, she's gardening, reading, listening to health and biohacking podcasts, and spending time in nature.
What is Safe Harbor
In October of 1998, the European Commission's Directive on Data Protection went into effect and started to prohibit any transfer of personal data about any European citizen to any non-European Union countries that fail to meet the European Union's standard for what is considered to be adequate privacy protection. The approach...
Gap vs. Tinder: A Terms of Service prevents abuses
In early 2015, Tinder shut down an ad campaign that Gap had begun running on the Tinder platform. According to Tinder, the ad campaign ran by Gap was in violation of Tinder's Terms of Service, which explicitly state that Tinder is "for personal use only" and that the app may not...
Netherlands Requirements for EU Cookies Law
In 2012, the Dutch Senate amended the Telecommunications Act with new rules dictating the appropriate use of cookies on websites and mobile apps. But the new rules require that opt-in consent must be obtained prior to any cookies that are not strictly necessary for the essential functioning of the website or...
The Privacy Policy Checklist
Privacy Policies are written statements that let your clients, customers, or website visitors know exactly what personal information you are gathering from them, and how that information will be used, managed, and disclosed to others. A Privacy Policy is mandatory even if you collect just an email address. It's mandatory to...
Meet Zoho's new Privacy Policy and Terms of Service
Zoho is an online application suite that provides free services to individuals and the same services to companies for a small subscription fee. Zoho's services mirror office productivity software comparable to Google Docs or Microsoft Office. Recently Zoho notified their users through email that they updated their Privacy Policy and their Terms...
How to do a Cookies Audit
The "Article 29 Working Party" recently ran a Cookies Sweep to determine what website operators are currently doing to stay compliant with the ePrivacy Directive, amended Article 5(3). Article 5(3) requires that all businesses in the EU must inform users when a website will place cookies on their computers and must...