infinite contract

Does your business require customers to agree to a “terms of service”? Run this incredibly illegal “INFINITE LENGTH CONTRACT” idea by your legal department! They will be impressed with your legal acumen.

Aug 28, 2017

Design, Law, Government, & Politics, Small Business, UI / UX

contracts, infinite contract, legalese, scroll to end and agree, Small Business, terms of service, worst contract idea

Background: Many web sites require a user to agree to a long and incomprehensible “terms of service” before they can use the site. Since these contracts are dozens (or hundreds) of pages, everyone just scrolls to the end and clicks “AGREE.” (See two examples in Figure 1). While you’d think that a company could slip…