Business Standard Terms Scorecard

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.

Terms at a glance

Sells your data
UNCLEAR
Forced arbitration
NO
Trains AI on your content
NO
Collects biometric data
NO
Shares data with government
UNCLEAR
Easy to cancel
NO
Tells you before changes
YES
Deletes data on request
UNCLEAR

What the terms actually say

Section 5 — Cancellation by us

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.

Section 5 — Cancellation policy

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.

Section 1.1 — Prohibited Use

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.

Section 11 — General

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.

Section 9 — Our Financial Responsibility

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.

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