Grade B — Fair terms (score 79/100)
Automattic maintains broad rights to your content and can terminate your account at any time without notice, though it provides clear mechanisms for account management and data deletion.
Broad content license, unilateral termination, and indemnification clauses.
You grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, and non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, modify, distribute, adapt, publicly display, and publish the Content for the purpose of providing and improving our products and Services and promoting your website Content.
You grant the company a very broad license to use your content, which allows them to modify and distribute it to promote their services.
We may terminate your access to all or any part of our Services at any time, with or without cause or notice, effective immediately.
The company reserves the right to shut down your account and delete your data at any time for any reason without prior warning.
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Automattic, its contractors, and its licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees, and agents from and against any and all losses, liabilities, demands, damages, costs, claims, and expenses, including attorneys’ fees.
You are required to pay for the company's legal defense and any damages if they are sued due to your use of the service.
If we do this, we’ll provide notice of the changes, such as by posting the amended Terms and updating the “Last Updated” date or, if the changes, in our sole discretion, are material, we may notify you through our Services or other communications.
The company commits to providing notice when they make material changes to the terms of service.
You can view your renewal date(s), cancel, or manage subscriptions in your settings (for example, WordPress.com’s Manage Purchases page or Woo’s My Subscriptions page).
You have a clear, self-serve mechanism to cancel your subscriptions directly through your account settings.
Last reviewed 2026-08-02 under rubric v3.5.