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When you buy off-the-shelf products for yourself or your business, you expect the law to provide with you with some basic rights. If you read the small print in the “agreements’ that come with software and other digital products, you will discover that the rights that you assume apply to traditional goods and services may not apply when you purchase digital products.
The unexpected and often unfair digital product terms that many sellers embed in these agreements, as well as the product features used to enforce them, often take away your basic rights as a customer—whether you are a business or individual consumer. They could increase your computer security risks and jeopardize your privacy. They could also chill competition.
STOP BEFORE
YOU CLICK is
an educational campaign to promote more fair business practice in
transactions for software and other types of digital
products. This campaign seeks to involve businesses, information
technology professionals, policy makers, as well as consumers, in transforming
standards of everyday business practice.
STOP BEFORE
YOU CLICK is a project of Americans for Fair Electronic Commerce
Transactions (AFFECT),
a national coalition of retail and
manufacturing businesses, consumer organizations, financial institutions,
technology professionals and librarians committed to the growth of
fair and competitive U.S. markets in software and other digital products.
California
case supports purchasers right to know the terms BEFORE they
pay |
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