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Steve Welburn, 2014-04-24 03:38 PM


Terms of use in the cloud

Google Terms Of Service

1 March 2012 Google Terms of Service : http://tinyurl.com/89dc9fa

When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give
Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store,
reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from
translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your
content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly
perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you
grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting,
and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license
continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a
business listing you have added to Google Maps).

Microsoft Services Agreement

19 October 2012 Microsoft services agreement : http://tinyurl.com/8e4kucy

When you upload your content to the services, you agree that it may
be used, modifed, adapted, saved, reproduced, distributed, and
displayed to the extent necessary to protect you and to provide, protect
and improve Microsoft products and services. For example, we may
occasionally use automated means to isolate information from email,
chats, or photos in order to help detect and protect against spam and
malware, or to improve the services with new features that makes them
easier to use. When processing your content, Microsoft takes steps to
help preserve your privacy.

24 April 2014 Microsoft services agreement

Except for material that we license to you that may be incorporated
into your own content (such as clip art), we do not claim ownership
of the content you provide on the services. Your content remains your
content, and you are responsible for it. We do not control, verify, 
pay for, or endorse the content that you and others make available 
on the services.
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You have initial control over who may access your content. If you
share content in public areas of the services or in shared areas available
to others you’ve chosen, you agree that anyone you have shared content with
may, for free, use, save, reproduce, distribute, display, and transmit that
content in connection with their use of the services and other Microsoft,
or its licensees’, products and services. If you don't want others to have
that ability, don't use the services to share your content.