Iām concerned about the new terms of service for Giving What We Can, which will go into effect after August 31, 2024:
6.3 Feedback. If you provide us with any feedback or suggestions about the GWWC Sites or GWWCās business (the āFeedbackā), GWWC may use the Feedback without obligation to you, and you irrevocably assign to GWWC all right, title, and interest in and to the Feedback. (emphasis added)
This is a significant departure from the Effective Venturesā TOS (GWWC is spinning out of EV), which has users grant EV an unlimited but non-exclusive license to use feedback or suggestions they send, while retaining the right to do anything with it themselves. Iāve previously talked to GWWC staff about my ideas to help people give effectively, like a donation decision worksheet that I made. If this provision goes into effect, it would deter me from sharing my suggestions with GWWC in the future because I would risk losing the right to disseminate or continue developing those ideas or materials myself.
After your email last week, we agreed to edit that section and copy EVās terms on Feedback. Iāve just changed the text on the website.
We only removed the part about āall Feedback we request from you will be collected on an anonymous basisā, as we might want to collect non-anonymous feedback in the future.
If anyone else has any feedback, make sure to also send us an email (like Eevee did) as we might miss things on the EA Forum.
Iām concerned about the new terms of service for Giving What We Can, which will go into effect after August 31, 2024:
This is a significant departure from the Effective Venturesā TOS (GWWC is spinning out of EV), which has users grant EV an unlimited but non-exclusive license to use feedback or suggestions they send, while retaining the right to do anything with it themselves. Iāve previously talked to GWWC staff about my ideas to help people give effectively, like a donation decision worksheet that I made. If this provision goes into effect, it would deter me from sharing my suggestions with GWWC in the future because I would risk losing the right to disseminate or continue developing those ideas or materials myself.
Thank you for raising this!
After your email last week, we agreed to edit that section and copy EVās terms on Feedback. Iāve just changed the text on the website.
We only removed the part about āall Feedback we request from you will be collected on an anonymous basisā, as we might want to collect non-anonymous feedback in the future.
If anyone else has any feedback, make sure to also send us an email (like Eevee did) as we might miss things on the EA Forum.
Strong upvote for bothering to read the terms and conditions!