DE.COM Terms Scorecard

Grade B- — Mostly fair (score 74/100)

The terms grant the company a perpetual, sublicensable license to your content and require you to indemnify them for any claims arising from your use of the site.

Broad content license and indemnification. No notice for term changes.

Terms at a glance

Sells your data
UNCLEAR
Forced arbitration
UNCLEAR
Trains AI on your content
YES
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

MODIFICATION OF THE TERMS

DE.COM reserves the right to modify these Terms from time to time and at its sole discretion.

The company can change the terms at any time without providing notice to users.

POSTING USER GENERATED CONTENT

You hereby grant DE.COM a worldwide, royalty-free, freely transferable, freely sublicensable... license to use, reproduce, modify... and create derivative works of the User Generated Content.

You grant the company an extremely broad, perpetual license to use your content for any purpose, including AI training.

INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless DE.COM... from and against any claims, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including, but not limited to, reasonable attorneys’ fees).

You are required to pay the company's legal costs if they are sued due to your use of the site.

LIMITATION ON LIABILITY

In no event shall the aggregate liability of DE.COM... exceed any compensation you pay, if any, to DE.COM for access to or use of the Sites.

The company limits its liability to the amount you paid, effectively zero for free users.

Last reviewed 2026-08-02 under rubric v3.5.

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