Is it against the TOS for a sim to use a website such as Wufoo in their application process?

[Raven Hui]

Is it against the TOS for a sim to use a website such as Wufoo in their application process as it displays a persons ip, more so it gives detailed information of where the person is from and tracks that sort of thing, and can link people to alts?  I know of a couple of second life sims that use this in their application process and have been alt stalked by their admins and harrassed.

[Syo Emerald]

What application process are you talking about? If you do not like the way the owner of a place likes to hire people, then don't apply/work there. End of the story. The ToS does just as far as SL goes...so whatever happens on a third party website is none of LL business and obviously not covered under the Terms of Service for Second Life.

And another handy thing to know: Your IP is not a secret on the internet. Every website you go to sees it, in theory every DJ that runs their own stream sees your IP, if you tune in to listen to the music at a club. But an IP is not enough to track anyone down or determine who is whos alt. Everyone who attempts to do that is going to fail and show how little his/her knowledge is.

However, disclosing your IP within Second Life can be counted as a ToS violation, but if I were you, I would simply move on and avoid the drama fest alltogether.

[KarenMichelle Lane]

Second Life has a long history with sponsored regions on the Grid. Having to register with the website of the person paying for the regions to obtain access to the regions features is NOT against the TOS. Remember the old NCIS Regions? Now if that organization chose to publicly disclose the private information of the members lets say on the website itself, then you have a quasi-violation. Clearly disclosing any private information about account holders to others inside the SL GRID is clearly a TOS Violation.

But if you choose to publish your private information on a website and then allow it to be associated with an avatar account that is your decision.

Always read the fine print of any registration process. No fine print? Then just say NO and walk away.

Stalking and Harassment are never allowed. Abuse Report the violators when this occurs inside Second Life. Call the appropriate Real World authorities when this occurs in the Real World.

KML