Grade A — Highly protective (score 94/100)
Business Standard provides a standard set of terms that avoids forced arbitration, but reserves broad rights to terminate accounts without notice and lacks a clear data deletion mechanism.
No forced arbitration. No data sale pledge missing. Termination rights are broad.
Business Standard reserves the right to suspend or terminate your subscription if you breach these terms and conditions, with or without notice and without further obligation to you.
The company can terminate your account at any time without prior warning if they believe you have breached the terms.
Although you may notify us of your intention to cancel at any time, such notice will only take effect at the end of your then current subscription period, and you will not receive a refund
Cancellations are not prorated; you remain charged for the remainder of your billing cycle.
You shall not: ... (3) use the Content for the development of any software program, model, algorithm, or generative AI tool
The company explicitly prohibits the use of their content for training AI models.
Any resultant changes to the terms and conditions will be intimated to you via email and updated on this website.
The company commits to notifying users of term changes via email.
If you are a Business Standard digital subscription service subscriber, we limit our financial responsibility to you ... to the price you paid for your subscription.
The company limits its total liability to the amount you paid for your subscription.
Last reviewed 2026-08-06 under rubric v3.5.