Economic Times Terms Scorecard

Grade C — Standard consumer terms (score 64/100)

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

Perpetual content license, unilateral changes, and broad liability disclaimers.

Terms at a glance

Sells your data
YES
Forced arbitration
UNCLEAR
Trains AI on your content
LIKELY
Collects biometric data
UNCLEAR
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

By posting / submitting any User Feedback / User Submission on the Site, you grant the Company a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free irrevocable, sub-licensable license and right in such User Feedback / User Submission to the Company

You grant the company a permanent, irrevocable, and sub-licensable license 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 at any time without providing direct notice to you.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

Company may also share certain filtered information, i.e.including email id or any other relevant information, to Company's third-party business partners who may contact you

The company shares your personal information with third-party partners for marketing and promotional purposes.

Term, renewal and cancellation

You do not have any right to cancel your subscription or any part of it until the end of your then current subscription period. you will not receive a refund

Subscriptions are non-refundable, and you cannot cancel mid-term.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

The 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 share your data with government authorities as required by law.

Last reviewed 2026-08-01 under rubric v3.5.

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