It really depends on what it is. If I'm just signing up to leave a comment on a blog or something, I don't check too much unless I'm giving them my email address. If I'm buying goods, I check a bit, if I'm buying services I'll probably read through quite thoroughly.
Me too, almost exactly in those terms. (I don't give anyone except personal friends my real email address, I use a spam-trap one that came with my domain host.) But if I'm giving someone money I read carefully enough to check that the price I see is what I'm actually going to pay and a few things like that. And if I'm signing up to a service I want to use (even a free one), I'll make sure there aren't hidden clauses that allow abuse of my content or other nasty stings. If I signed up for actual utilities online, which I think is possible these days, I'd read the T&C really carefully.
I don't give anyone except personal friends my real email address, I use a spam-trap one that came with my domain host.
Owning my own domain as I do, I spin off a unique email for each use; then if I start getting spams or viruses, I can inform the appropriate person that their machines have been infected, at the least by an address harvester. For example, I only ever used Enterprise Rent-A-Car once, when you and I went up to Aberdeenshire, but started getting viruses from them a couple of years later. And just the other day I got spam addressed to my for-Limmud address. *growl*
Depends on what it is and how much I trust the person(s) I'm dealing with. Usually I don't read the T&Cs at all but I read the T&Cs for my 'phone contract quite closely.
I do skim the small print, particularly when it comes to assigning rights; but a) I'm not a lawyer and I miss things, and b) none of that is any use when a company changes its TOS without telling you.
I usually do not buy anything. I just use the trial version. When I do buy it I usually check if they have a refund policy which is not written in the terms and condition.
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Date: 2009-02-19 07:56 am (UTC)Owning my own domain as I do, I spin off a unique email for each use; then if I start getting spams or viruses, I can inform the appropriate person that their machines have been infected, at the least by an address harvester. For example, I only ever used Enterprise Rent-A-Car once, when you and I went up to Aberdeenshire, but started getting viruses from them a couple of years later. And just the other day I got spam addressed to my for-Limmud address. *growl*
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