Cloudflare Terms Scorecard

Grade C+ — Standard consumer terms (score 67/100)

Cloudflare reserves broad rights to your content and can terminate your access or modify terms at any time without notice.

Broad content license, unilateral changes, and no notice for termination.

Terms at a glance

Sells your data
NO
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

Section 12 — Governing Law

you and Cloudflare agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located within San Francisco County, California for the purpose of litigating all such disputes.

All legal disputes must be handled in San Francisco, California, regardless of where you live.

Section 2 — License Grant to Cloudflare

you are granting Cloudflare a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free right and license to use, incorporate, exploit, display, perform, reproduce, distribute, and prepare derivative works of your Content.

You grant Cloudflare a permanent, global, and free license to use your content in any way they choose, including sublicensing it, without compensation.

Section 4 — Termination of Use

We may at our sole discretion suspend or terminate your access to the Websites and/or Online Services at any time, with or without notice for any reason or no reason at all.

Cloudflare can ban you or delete your access at any time, for any reason, without warning.

Section 13 — Changes to These Terms

Cloudflare reserves the right to make modifications to these Terms at any time. ... Unless otherwise specified, any modifications to the Terms will take effect the day they are posted to this Website.

Cloudflare can change these terms at any time, and the new terms apply immediately upon posting without direct notification.

Section 9 — Indemnity

you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Cloudflare ... from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees and costs, arising out of or in any way connected with ... your use of the Websites and Online Services.

You are required to pay for Cloudflare's legal defense and any damages if they are sued because of your use of the service.

Last reviewed 2026-07-26 under rubric v3.5.

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