{"id":568736,"date":"2010-05-18T14:47:30","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T18:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10005863"},"modified":"2010-05-18T12:08:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T16:08:08","slug":"groupon-shows-how-to-properly-explain-tos-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/568736","title":{"rendered":"Groupon Shows How To Properly Explain TOS Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/05\/051810-006-groupon-logo-thumb-240x152-40462.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/05\/051810-006-groupon-newsletter-thumb-639x495-40461.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Groupon is a daily deal sort of website, but the reason it&#8217;s on Consumerist today is because of how well it communicated some recent changes to its Terms of Service agreement. Consumerist reader Pureboy sent in a copy of the email he recently received where the website explained the changes in plain English, with examples.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"051810-006-groupon-newsletter.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/05\/18\/051810-006-groupon-newsletter.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"495\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><br \/>\nWas that so hard, every other company that doesn&#8217;t bother? Keeping your customers up to date on what they&#8217;ve theoretically agreed to should be considered basic customer service.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to keep track of changes to TOS agreements on your own, try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tosback.org\/timeline.php\" >TOSBack.org<\/a>, an EFF blog that tracks 56 companies and alerts you when their lawyers change something in the fine print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Groupon is a daily deal sort of website, but the reason it&#8217;s on Consumerist today is because of how well it communicated some recent changes to its Terms of Service agreement. Consumerist reader Pureboy sent in a copy of the email he recently received where the website explained the changes in plain English, with examples. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}