Grade F — Predatory terms (score 44/100)
Adweek forces arbitration, claims a perpetual license to user content, and reserves the right to terminate accounts without notice.
Forced arbitration, perpetual content license, and broad termination rights.
you automatically grant... ADWEEK a perpetual, royalty-free, fully paid-up, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, worldwide, sub-licensable right and license to (a) use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, sell...
You grant Adweek a permanent, global, and irrevocable license to use, sell, and modify your content for any purpose without paying you.
YOU AND ADWEEK EACH AGREE THAT CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER MAY ONLY BE BROUGHT IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY AND NOT IN A CLASS ACTION OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. All litigations under this Agreement must be conducted on an individual (and not a class-wide) basis.
You are prohibited from participating in class action lawsuits against the company.
ADWEEK reserves the right, at its discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of these Terms at any time. Your continued use of the ADWEEK Application following the posting of changes to these Terms will mean you accept those changes.
The company can change the terms at any time without notifying you, and your continued use constitutes acceptance.
copy, harvest, crawl, index, scrape, spider, mine, gather, extract, compile, obtain, aggregate, capture, access, store, or republish any Content... for any and all purposes... including but not limited to any purpose related to data mining and/or the training or operation of any software or service to the extent that it incorporates a large language model, foundation model, deep machine learning…
Adweek prohibits the use of their content for AI training, which is a protective measure against scraping.
IN NO EVENT SHALL ADWEEK’S AGGREGATE LIABILITY... EXCEED US $1,000.
The company limits its total financial liability to you to $1,000, regardless of the damages.
Last reviewed 2026-08-06 under rubric v3.5.