Brendan: June 2008 Archives

And now, a word from legal…

As you may have read on the HQ blog, we are making some upgrades to Meetup. As the Meetup service grows and we add new features, we need to make changes to our Terms of Service. We're posting an update to the TOS for Meetup.com and MeetupAlliance.com with the coming upgrade. We are not making any changes to our Privacy Policy with this upgrade.

A summary of the changes:

1. Adding terms for the new Payments feature.
2. Adding terms for the new Meetup API.
3. Synching up the Terms of Service of Meetup.com & MeetupAlliance.com, which reduces the complexity of having two similar, but slightly different TOS documents.
4. Adding terms about sponsorships and payments that you may receive from the sponsors that you arrange or accept.
5. Adding restrictions on the use of the service (Section 5.3 (a)(vi)&(vii)). <-- new numbering
6. Amending terms regarding the process of how we make future updates to the Terms Of Service.
7. Various other wording edits or removal of redundant language.
8. Extensive renumbering of the terms documents for easier reference. The new Terms of Service will launch simultaneously with the coming upgrade. You can see the current Terms of Service at any time by clicking the "Terms" link in the footer of every Meetup page.