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[Issue] Incorporation of URL terms [Comments] 
Similarly, vendor form contracts may incorporate by reference additional terms and policies posted to the vendor’s web site, which typically are subject to the vendor’s unilateral amendment, and those terms and policies may in turn incorporate by reference still other terms and policies posted elsewhere on the vendor’s web sites, which also typically are subject to the vendor's unilateral amendment. The result is that the contract itself is incomplete, it may well contain provisions that are inconsistent or that conflict with the incorporated provisions, and it likely will be difficult or impossible to fully comprehend. It also will potentially be meaningless, because the vendor will have the right to amend it significantly at any time, and likely even without any more notice to us than posting the change to its web site. While it may be reasonable to deal with technical standards and guidelines or other "non-legal" matters elsewhere, it is strongly preferable that all contractual terms be included in the contract itself. At the very least, the customer should attempt to require the vendor to provide direct, individual notice sufficiently in advance of the effective date of any amendments to incorporated terms, along with the right to terminate if such amendments are unacceptable or materially detrimental to the customer's interests.
IT: Legal and Quasi-Legal Issues in Cloud Computing Contracts
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