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If a file names your company or you, and you think a sentence in it is wrong, write to corrections@termsapply.fyi. Give the file number, the sentence as it stands, and the evidence that it is wrong. We answer within five working days.

• What we will do. If the sentence is wrong, we correct it in the open: the file’s revision date changes, and the corrections register prints the sentence as published, as corrected, and why. If the sentence stands and you disagree with it, we print your reply in full on the file’s Reply page.
• What we will not do. Remove a file, or a finding, because it is inconvenient. We do not change a published sentence silently, and we do not take a file down to make an error disappear.

Any company whose service is the subject of a file may have a reply printed in full and unedited on that file’s Reply page, with our note beside it saying what the reply does and does not address. The file’s header and its revision log record the reply and the date it arrived.

• In full. Every message the company sends in reply is printed in full, whatever its length, with the date it arrived. We do not cut, shorten or edit it.
• Subject. A reply answers the findings of the file: the sentence we quote, what the app did, and the evidence. Our note beside it says which findings it addresses.
• Timing. We send our findings before publication and wait at least five working days. A reply, or a further message, that arrives later is added with its date, and the file’s revision date changes.

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