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Last night, I was signing up for MyMileMarker - an online tool to help track gas mileage / usage and provide you with some sweet stats, and I came upon the best End User License Agreement (or EULA) I’ve ever read:

“It’s a web site… it won’t destroy your computer. We’ll take your data and store it, but if we lose it, we’re sorry. We’ll probably sell aggregate data (but not your name or email address) to advertisers. We reserve the right to charge for this at some point.  These terms might change in the future, but if they do, we’ll let you know.  Cool?”

Wasn’t that easy?  How often have we just hit “I agree” and not even read half of the EULA?  This is how it should be - not 3 pages of legal jargon I can’t understand.

This should be the new standard for EULAs.  Don’t write something that you can’t read in under a minute, and make it in simple, understandable terms.

Colin

Yes, I’m aware I’m a nerd for blogging about how awesome a EULA was.  Feel free to make fun of me, though.