Grade C — Standard consumer terms (score 64/100)
The Detroit News reserves broad rights to share user data, claim perpetual licenses to user content, and terminate accounts without notice.
Broad data sharing, perpetual content license, and unilateral termination rights.
Unless you inform us otherwise, detroitnews.com reserves the right to use, and to disclose to third parties, information collected from you... for a variety of reasons and purposes, such as providing users with information about products and services... that may be given or sold to third party vendors.
The company reserves the right to sell your personal information to third parties unless you opt out.
you are granting detroitnews.com a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to: 1. Use, copy, sublicense, adapt, transmit, publicly perform or display any such communication...
You grant the company a permanent, global license to use anything you post, which survives account deletion.
detroitnews.com may cancel or terminate your right to use the Service or any part of the Service at any time without notice.
The company can terminate your access to the service at any time without prior warning.
we may need to change these Terms of Service... in which case we will post the revised Terms of Service on this Web site. By continuing to use the Service after we post any such changes, you accept the Terms of Service, as modified.
The company can change the terms at any time without direct notification; continued use constitutes acceptance.
Be aware that we may occasionally release information about our visitors. Such situations could include but are not limited to compliance with law, response to subpoena...
The company may share your data with government or law enforcement agencies.
Last reviewed 2026-08-26 under rubric v3.5.