Grade B — Fair terms (score 78/100)
Ad Age maintains a broad, perpetual license to user content and includes fee-shifting provisions, though it does not explicitly sell user data.
Standard terms with broad content license and fee-shifting provisions.
You further grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable license and right to publicly display, distribute, reproduce, modify, translate, edit, create derivative works and use the User Content throughout the world in any media
You grant the company a permanent, unchangeable right to use your content in any way they see fit, forever.
You agree to be responsible for any damages resulting from your breach of this Agreement and reimburse us for all of costs, expenses and fees (including all attorney’s fees) arising from or relating to your breach.
This is a 'loser pays' provision that forces you to cover the company's legal costs if you are found in breach of the agreement.
We further reserve the right to disclose any information about you, including registration data, in order to comply with any applicable laws and/or requests under legal process
The company reserves the right to hand over your personal data to law enforcement or other parties without a specific commitment to notify you.
Crain may discontinue or change the Service, or its availability to you, at any time without notice.
The company can modify the service or its availability at any time without informing you.
any action to enforce this Agreement or in any manner related to the Service shall be brought exclusively in the federal or state courts located in Chicago, Illinois
You are restricted to litigating in a specific jurisdiction, which may be inconvenient depending on your location.
Last reviewed 2026-08-20 under rubric v3.5.