Grade F — Predatory terms (score 54/100)
Bell Media forces binding arbitration, waives class action rights, and claims a perpetual, irrevocable license to all user-submitted content.
Forced arbitration, class action waiver, and broad content license.
any controversy, claim or dispute... will be referred to and finally settled (to the exclusion of the courts) by private and confidential binding arbitration... You agree to waive any right you may have to commence or participate in any class action against us
You are prohibited from suing in court or joining a class action, and must instead use private arbitration.
you automatically grant... Bell Media a world-wide, perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable and non-exclusive right and license to use, copy, adapt, transmit, communicate, publicly display and perform, distribute and create compilations and derivative works from such submitted materials
Bell Media claims a permanent, irrevocable right to use anything you post, forever, without paying you.
Bell Media reserves the right... to add to, remove, modify or otherwise change any part of these Terms and Conditions... at any time. Except as otherwise expressly contemplated herein, changes will be effective when notice of such change is posted on a Bell Media Site.
The company can change the rules at any time without emailing you; you are expected to check the website periodically.
Bell Media, in its sole and absolute discretion, may, without notice to you, suspend or terminate your account... for any reason
Bell Media can delete your account and all your data at any time, for any reason, without telling you.
you agree that Bell Media has the right to monitor a Bell Media Site electronically from time to time and to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or other governmental request
Bell Media reserves the right to hand over your data to government authorities at their discretion.
Last reviewed 2026-08-03 under rubric v3.5.