Cloud service Vultr has adjusted its updated terms of use after heavy criticism from users. The terms stated that the platform would receive the rights to all hosted content, including music, images and applications.
The terms of use were amended in January, but users were informed earlier this week, The Register wrote on Thursday. Vultr asked users to agree to changes via a pop-up in the control panel of Vultr’s web client. This was followed by a wave of criticism, including on Reddit. Users complained, among other things, about the vagueness of the clauses, which, among other things, demanded that Vultr be granted “continuing, irrevocable, royalty-free rights to the hosted content.”
Vultr has now adjusted the terms of use and removed the controversial clauses. CEO JJ Kardwell told The Register that the passages related to messages on customer forums and not content on private servers. “We don’t use user data. We never have and we never will. We take privacy and security very seriously. It’s at the core of what we do globally,” Kardwell said. The CEO further points out that the passages were already worded in this way before January. Yet they have been removed and replaced by ‘passages with clearer and simplified language’.
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