ONLINE CONTRACTS – SHRINKWRAP, CLICKWRAP AND BROWSEWRAP CONTRACTS
Keywords:
online contracts, browsewrap, clickwrap, shrinkwrap, terms of use, internet platformAbstract
Entering into a contract by accepting the pre-drawn conditions of one party, significantly speeds up, facilitates, and lowers the costs of its conclusion while on the other hand it entails certain negative consequences for the person who agrees to the conditions drawn up by someone else. When concluding such contracts, the party who agrees to them does not have the opportunity to negotiate their content, that person can only agree to or refuse them. A huge number of such contracts are concluded online today, without many of those who conclude them being aware of it at all.
Today, three types of contracts that are concluded by accepting terms of use of various internet platforms are most often mentioned, but it should be taken into account that many platforms do not have one "pure" type of this contract, but a combination of them. These three types are shrinkwrap, clickwrap, and browsewrap contracts, where the main difference is in the way the user agrees to them. In this paper, the authors will discuss these types of contracts, explaining their basic similarities and differences, their basic characteristics together with problems associated with them.
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