Fine Print Friday

Fine Print…Tuesday?: iTunes Terms and Conditions Update

by Graham Martin on June 14, 2011 · 3 comments

iTunes Expiring

Anyone using iTunes or an iPhone has likely noticed that there was recently an iTunes Terms and Conditions update, which has changed some language that may or may not impact you directly. To update your apps or buy more music, you needed to agree to these terms, so let’s see what you agreed to, shall we?

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Car Rental Insurance: Credit Card vs. Rental Company

March 4, 2011
cage match

If you have car rental insurance with your credit card, do you need to buy the insurance from the car rental company? For this week’s Fine Print Friday I am going to do a comparison and contrast of representative insurance policies from Hertz and American Express.

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Fine Print Friday: Windows 7 EULA

February 25, 2011

Windows 7 is most popular operating system (OS) released in the last few years, although Windows XP is still in use on more computers currently. Considering that over 300 million copies of Windows 7 have been sold, it seems important that users know what they agree to when using the software. So this week I [...]

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Fine Print Friday: iTunes Terms and Conditions

February 11, 2011
iTunes logo

iTunes is by far the most popular digital music store, and with the proliferation of iPods, iPhones, and iPads, the iTunes terms and conditions affect an enormous number of people. How does this agreement affect you and your use of Apple products?

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Fine Print Friday: Armed Forces Enlistment

February 4, 2011
Army Father and Daughter

With the number of conflicts in which the United States is currently involved, and the duration of those conflicts, the armed forces are always looking for new recruits, and interested people are probably interested in what enlistment means for them. This Fine Print Friday will look at what new recruits agree to when they enlist.

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Fine Print Friday: LegalZoom Terms of Service

January 28, 2011
LegalZoom logo

LegalZoom.com is arguably the most popular online service for the preparation of legal documents, and has gotten mixed reviews from attorneys. For some people, the convenience of being able to submit one’s information via a website is a fair trade for not actually working with an attorney. On the other hand, not having an attorney personally checking your work potentially opens up LegalZoom customers to missed details that could derail the interests they were trying to preserve. What are customers bound to when they use LegalZoom?

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Fine Print Friday: Residential Lease Agreement

January 14, 2011

As spring and summer approach, more people will be looking for new housing. A good friend of mine is moving out of his apartment soon and started looking over his lease in preparation. He was generous enough to share it with me so we could examine a residential lease for this week’s Fine Print Friday.

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Fine Print Friday: FedEx Domestic and International Shipping

December 31, 2010

FedEx is one of the largest shippers of goods in the world. Although the major shipping season has just passed us by, I thought it would be interesting for people to know what they are bound to when they ship a package with FedEx, either domestically or internationally.

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