Economic Times Terms Scorecard

This assessment covers the linked ToS.

Grade F — Predatory terms (score 36/100)

The terms grant the company a perpetual, irrevocable license to user content and allow for unilateral changes to the agreement without notice.

Broad content license, unilateral changes, and no-refund policies.

Terms at a glance

Sells your data
LIKELY
Forced arbitration
NO
Trains AI on your content
YES
Collects biometric data
NO
Shares data with government
YES
Easy to cancel
NO
Tells you before changes
NO
Deletes data on request
UNCLEAR

What the terms actually say

User Submissions

you hereby grant to Company and its users a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, assignable, royalty-free license

You grant the company a permanent, unchangeable right to use, modify, and distribute anything you post, forever.

Acceptance of Terms of Use

The Company reserves the right, at its discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of these Terms at any time by posting the amended Terms.

The company can change the terms whenever they want without giving you direct notice.

AI and Text/Data Mining Restriction

no person or entity may access... for the purpose of (a) training, developing, testing or improving any artificial intelligence, machine learning, large language model or similar technology

The company reserves the right to use your content for AI training while prohibiting you from doing the same.

Term, renewal and cancellation

there can be no cancellation once a User’s account is active for the subscription based Services.

Once you pay, you cannot cancel or get a refund for the remainder of your subscription period.

COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Company reserves the right to disclose any information including the personal details that is required to be shared, disclosed or made available to any governmental, administrative, regulatory or judicial authority

The company will hand over your personal data to government authorities whenever they deem it required by law.

Last reviewed 2026-10-30 under rubric v3.6.

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