Cloudinary Terms Scorecard

Grade B — Fair terms (score 78/100)

Cloudinary provides a robust image management platform with standard commercial terms, though it reserves broad rights to modify terms and requires user indemnification.

Standard developer terms. Unilateral changes and broad indemnification.

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
LIKELY
Easy to cancel
YES
Tells you before changes
YES
Deletes data on request
UNCLEAR

What the terms actually say

Section 3 — User Account

Cloudinary may temporarily or permanently deny, limit, suspend, or terminate your user account... in its sole discretion that you: (i) abused your rights to use the Services; (ii) breached the Terms...

Cloudinary reserves the right to terminate your account at their sole discretion for a variety of reasons, including perceived abuse or breach of terms.

Section 13 — Indemnification

You will indemnify, defend and hold harmless, Cloudinary, Cloudinary’s affiliates and Cloudinary and Cloudinary affiliates’ employees... with respect of any claim, demand, damage, loss...

You are contractually obligated to cover Cloudinary's legal costs and damages if they face claims resulting from your use of the service.

Section 15 — Governing Law

The competent courts in: (i) the Tel Aviv district in Israel or, (ii) ... Santa Clara County in California, USA or, (iii) ... London, England, will have sole and exclusive jurisdiction over any claim

Disputes must be resolved in specific, non-local jurisdictions, which may be inconvenient depending on your location.

Section 3 — User Account

If your subscription terms expressly allow for termination at will, you may terminate your account through your account page, or by contacting Cloudinary via email.

The service provides a clear, accessible mechanism for account termination.

Section 10 — Confidentiality

If Cloudinary is compelled by law, a competent court or government action, to disclose the other party’s confidential information, Cloudinary shall furnish only such portion of the Confidential Information which is legally required, and shall exercise all reasonable efforts to obtain confidential treatment for such information.

Cloudinary commits to limiting government disclosures to only what is legally required and seeking confidential treatment.

Last reviewed 2026-07-31 under rubric v3.5.

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