Clarivate Terms Scorecard

Grade B- — Mostly fair (score 74/100)

Clarivate claims a perpetual, worldwide license to user content and reserves the right to modify terms without notice, though it does not explicitly force arbitration.

Broad content license. Unilateral changes. No clear data retention period.

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
UNCLEAR
Tells you before changes
NO
Deletes data on request
UNCLEAR

What the terms actually say

Intro

We may change these Terms of Use at any time without notice to you.

The company reserves the right to modify the agreement at any time without providing any notification to the user.

4(b) License

you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, publish, broadcast and reproduce such User Material without limitation in any and all media, worldwide, in perpetuity, for any purpose whatsoever.

You grant the company a permanent, global, and royalty-free license to use your content for any purpose, which survives even if you stop using the service.

9(d) Termination

we reserve the right to modify, discontinue, disable or terminate all or any part of the Site, or your access to and/or use thereof, at any time, without prior notice.

The company can terminate your access to the service at any time without giving you prior notice.

2(b) Restrictions

You must not, and may not permit others to, reproduce or otherwise use the Data in any manner in conjunction with any artificial intelligence, machine learning, algorithms or models (“AI Technologies”) or for the purposes of training such AI Technologies

The company explicitly prohibits the use of their data for training AI models.

9(b) Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms of Use to anyone else without our prior written consent.

You are prohibited from transferring your rights under this agreement to another party without the company's permission.

Last reviewed 2026-08-24 under rubric v3.5.

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