Mastodon API
- The documents do not say whether your data trains AI.
- The documents do not say whether your data is used for ads.
- The documents do not say whether your data is sold or shared.
- The documents do not say who can read your content.
We could not read a real privacy policy; the terms say you keep your posts and the service is free.
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Collected
We could not read a real privacy policy, so we cannot tell what they collect.
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Privacy policy
“The privacy policy of my social networking apps: Mona, Spring, Spring mini, and Spring Lite, do not collect any personal information.”
Training
They use your posts to run the site, including sending them to other servers.
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Terms of service
“When you upload Content to the Service, you automatically grant us a non-exclusive, licence solely to operate and maintain the Service (the "Licence").”
Sharing
Your posts can be copied to other users and other servers on the internet.
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Terms of service
“Making your Content available to, and transmitting your Content to, other users and other servers (which, in each case, might store your Content on their own, or third party's computers)”
Kept
Deleted posts can stay in backups and on other servers they do not control.
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Terms of service
“Content that you have deleted from the live Service may remain in our backups. If it does, your Licence to us in respect of that Content does not terminate automatically.”
Controls
You can delete your account at any time without telling them.
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Terms of service
“You can end this agreement at any time by deleting your account. You do not need to notify us.”
Fine print
The service is free; they will try to give 30 days’ notice before changing the terms.
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Terms of service
“We will notify you at least 30 days in advance before making such changes to these terms, unless such changes are required by law within a shorter period”
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What you can turn off
The controls and opt-outs their own documents describe, and where they say to find them.
Delete your account if you want to leave
The terms say you end the agreement by deleting your account; no extra notice is required.
Delete posts you no longer want on the live site
In the service; know that backups and other servers may still keep copies.
Read the linked privacy policy on the site
The terms point to a privacy policy we could not read here; find it on mastodon.social.
If a switch is not where they say, the deletion request above still applies.
Line by line
The lines that matter most, worst first.
If you delete a post here, copies can still live on other sites and devices.
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Terms of service
“Deleting Content from the Service does not guarantee that it will be deleted from other servers or people's computers, as this is outside our (and your) control.”
For example, someone on another server could still have your old post after you delete it.
A post you delete can come back if they restore from a backup.
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Terms of service
“Content that you have deleted from the live Service may remain in our backups. If it does, your Licence to us in respect of that Content does not terminate automatically.”
For example, after a crash they restore an old backup and a post you deleted shows up again.
Public posts can be copied by search engines and other sites, and they cannot stop that.
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Terms of service
“Anyone, or any computer, might access your Content via RSS aggregators and readers, embed your Content in web pages and other media, or index and store your Content in search engines and databases.”
For example, a search engine could keep a copy of your post even after you take it down.
They say they do not take ownership of what you post.
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Terms of service
“Nothing in these terms gives us ownership of your Content. Whoever owns the Content retains ownership.”
For example, your photos still belong to you, not to the company.
You let them host and show your posts only so the service can work.
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Terms of service
“When you upload Content to the Service, you automatically grant us a non-exclusive, licence solely to operate and maintain the Service (the "Licence").”
For example, they can store your post and send it to people who follow you.
When you delete a post, they should stop hosting and sending that post (except backups).
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Terms of service
“If you delete your Content, your Licence to us, in respect of us continuing to host, make available, and transmit that Content, ends automatically.”
For example, after you delete a status, they should not keep showing it on the live site.
You can close your account yourself whenever you want.
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Terms of service
“You can end this agreement at any time by deleting your account. You do not need to notify us.”
For example, you can delete the account in the service and walk away without an email.
There is no paid plan described in these terms.
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Terms of service
“You can use the Service without paying us anything. This is a free Service.”
For example, you are not signing up for a monthly charge in this document.
They say they will warn you a month ahead of most rule changes.
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Terms of service
“We will notify you at least 30 days in advance before making such changes to these terms, unless such changes are required by law within a shorter period”
For example, if they change how they use posts, they say they will tell you 30 days first.
They still pay for serious harm, intent, and some legal duties; other losses are limited.
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Terms of service
“We are fully for damages resulting from injury to life, body, or health; for intent; for gross negligence; and under the Product Act (ProdHaftG)”
For example, they do not wipe away all responsibility if they badly break the service on purpose.
Words to know
Legal words from the lines above, in plain English.
- personal data
- Any information that is about you or can be linked to you, from your name to your phone's ID. For example, your email, your IP address and the list of apps on your phone are all personal data.
- worldwide license
- You let the company use your content anywhere on earth, usually for free and for as long as it likes. For example, a video you post can be shown in ads in any country without asking you again.
- royalty-free
- The company can use your content without ever paying you for it. For example, your photo can appear in the app's ads and you get nothing.
- third parties
- Any company or person other than you and the app, such as advertisers, partners or analytics firms. For example, an analytics company that receives a record of every screen you tap is a third party.
- limitation of liability
- A cap on what the company will ever pay you if something goes wrong, often only what you paid in the last year. For example, if a leak of your data costs you thousands, the most you may get back is a month's subscription fee.
How we got here · grade F · score 30/100 · 15 of 15 policy answers backed by a verified quote · 11 not stated
What does the app collect beyond what it needs to work?
Not stated in the documents.
Does it record your voice, face or body, and what happens to that?
Not stated in the documents.
Are your chats and uploads used to train AI models, and is that off by default?
Not stated in the documents.
Can employees or contractors read your conversations, and when?
Not stated in the documents.
Are you profiled or tracked for advertising?
Not stated in the documents.
Do they sell or share your data, and can you opt out?
Not stated in the documents.
What rights do they take over what you type and what the AI makes?
They say you keep ownership. You give them a license only to run the service, and that license ends when you delete a post (except backups).
How long do they keep your data after you delete it, and can you delete it in the app?
Not stated in the documents.
Does it build a lasting memory or profile of you, and can you see, edit or turn it off?
Not stated in the documents.
Do they commit to basic security, and have they leaked data?
Not stated in the documents.
Is there a real age gate, and are teens protected?
Not stated in the documents.
Will they tell you when the rules change, and is the policy specific?
The terms are dated and they say they will give at least 30 days’ notice of changes. We still lack a real privacy policy with data types and retention times.
Can they close your account without warning, and can you get your data out first?
Not stated in the documents.
If something goes wrong, who pays?
They stay fully responsible for serious harm, intent, and gross negligence. Other everyday losses are limited to typical, foreseeable damage.
Do subscriptions renew on their own, and can you get a refund?
These terms say the service is free and you pay them nothing.
The privacy policy is 1,003 words at a fairly hard level (Flesch reading ease 55.1); the terms are 3,297 words at a college graduate level.
