Grade A- — Mostly protective (score 85/100)
Channel 4's terms include a broad, perpetual license to user content and allow for unilateral changes, but they do not force arbitration or waive class action rights.
Standard streaming terms. Perpetual content license. No forced arbitration.
you allow us (and our third party partners) irrevocably to use your content at our discretion in any media ... throughout the world at any time without further liability or payment to you
You grant Channel 4 a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to use your content for any purpose, including promotion.
you shall not use ... the Channel 4 Services ... (a) for any machine learning, machine learning language models and/or artificial intelligence-related purposes (including the training or development of such technologies)
Channel 4 explicitly prohibits the use of their content for AI training purposes.
If you want to terminate your account, you can do so by clicking on ‘Close Account’. This will wipe the personal information you gave us from our systems
You have a clear, self-serve mechanism to delete your account and personal data.
We will try to give you reasonable advance notice ... unless changes are urgently required due to security, legal or regulatory reasons.
While they promise notice for material changes, they reserve the right to bypass this for urgent updates.
We may suspend or terminate your account if we reasonably believe you are breaching any of these requirements ... Our decision to suspend or terminate your account will be based entirely on our own best judgement.
Channel 4 reserves broad discretion to terminate accounts based on their own internal assessment of your behavior.
Last reviewed 2026-08-06 under rubric v3.5.