[Terretta]

This means (a) their comment pages can incorporate your comments and mini bio to show on their comment pages, and (b) the Internet is not private.

They have bad lawyers and bad Chief Legal Officer for allowing this boilerplate in an agreement for an app like this, but these two clauses are less nefarious than they sound.

Technically your writings are copyright by you, so this pairing lets them do whatever with your comments, and display them to others without you coming after them for something.

[landemva]

> Chief Legal Officer

Since around 2008 I notice everyone is an officer. There was a specific meaning of officer, and now it is big-shot-ism.

[thrwawy74]

I'm imagining within any group of legal experts there's disagreement on how to approach risk/liability and manage it, if it is unavoidable. You need a dictator :)

The parent is probably right: Not a nefarious agreement, but it is some kind of irony that the service exists to help expunge your digital existence in many places and they have you agreeing to use your commentary (satisfaction?) as a means to market themselves.

If you were so happy with their service, I wish you could submit testimony in an explicit area of their site. I left an earlier comment and erased it: I'm not a fan of "implicit" we-can-use-anything-you-do agreements. I wish it were more transactional. That's why this service could be fantastic: It's alienating and exhausting to live in the digital public where every influencer/company wants to use your existence for monetary gain.