Grade C+ — Standard consumer terms (score 65/100)
Buffer's terms include a perpetual, irrevocable license to user content, mandatory individual arbitration, and broad rights for the company to modify the service or terms without notice.
Broad content license, forced arbitration, and unilateral modification rights.
By Posting User Content... you grant Buffer a worldwide, non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free... right and license... to host, store, transfer... and distribute your User Content.
Buffer claims a permanent, irrevocable right to use your content across any media, which survives even if you delete your account.
YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT, BY ENTERING INTO THESE TERMS, YOU AND BUFFER ARE EACH WAIVING THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY OR TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION.
You are forced into individual arbitration and cannot join class action lawsuits or have a jury trial.
Buffer may, at its sole discretion, terminate these Terms or your account... at any time for any reason or no reason, with or without notice.
Buffer can shut down your account and delete your data at any time without giving you any notice or reason.
We may, from time to time, change these Terms. Please check these Terms periodically for changes. Revisions will be effective immediately.
Buffer reserves the right to change terms without direct notice to the user.
A user has the right to request that we delete all of their personal data by deleting their Buffer account.
Users have a clear, self-serve mechanism to delete their account and associated data.
Last reviewed 2026-09-19 under rubric v3.5.