Mozilla reviews the terms of Firefox use after users inflammation over the use of data

Mozilla wants to establish the registration: the company needs a license “to make possible part of the basic function” of its Open Source Firefox browser, but this does not offer the property of a user.

Clarification comes a few days after the company is introduced Terms of use (Tou) for Firefox, along with an updated Privacy notificationExplaining that, although it was historically based on its Open Source license for Firefox, “we build a much different technological landscape today.”

Firefox Tou: a world license “non -exclusive, without royalty”

Firefox Tou caused some confusion, because it initially read, as quoted in the register:

When loading or entering information via Firefox, give us an unexculneous world license, with no royalties, to use this information to help you browse, experiment and interact with online content, as you indicate with your Firefox.

This phrase triggered a storm, and Mozilla subsequently eliminated this language. “Our intention was just to be as clear as possible about how Firefox is to work, but in this sense, we have created a certain confusion and concern”, ” wrote Ajit Varma, Vice -President of Firefox product managementIn a blog post on the company’s website on Friday.

The new language will read now:

Give Mozilla the rights needed to operate Firefox. This includes the processing of your data as we describe in the Firefox privacy announcement. It also includes an unexclusive world license, without royalty rights, in order to do as you request with the content you enter in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any property in this content.

Varma said that Mozilla also eliminated the reference to the acceptable use policy, explaining that “it seems to cause more confusion than to clarify.”

Frequent questions about privacy was also updated

The company also updated Frequent questions about privacy “To better address the legal minute around terms such as” sells “, wrote Varma. Mozilla decided to give more details about why he made the change first, he said.

“The reason why we were departing from making a blanket claims that” we never sell your data “is because, in some places, the legal definition of” data sale “is wide and in evolution,” Varma explained.

He added that to make Firefox viable from a commercial point of view, Mozilla collects and shared data with partners in “a number of places”, including the optional ads in the Noua and offering sponsored suggestions in the search bar. Varma said this is established in the privacy notice.

But the company strives to ensure that the data it shares are “naked by potential information or shared information only,” he said.