F5 Terms Scorecard

Grade B- — Mostly fair (score 74/100)

F5's Terms of Use maintain broad discretionary powers for the company regarding content licensing, account termination, and unilateral policy changes, while disclaiming all liability.

Standard terms with broad termination rights and unilateral modification clauses.

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
YES
Easy to cancel
YES
Tells you before changes
NO
Deletes data on request
UNCLEAR

What the terms actually say

Modifications of These Terms of Use

F5 reserves the right to change the terms, conditions, and notices under which the web site is offered at any time.

F5 can modify the terms without providing notice to the user.

Materials Provided to DevCentral NGINX Community Forum

you are granting F5, its affiliated companies, agents and necessary sublicensees permission to use your Submission... including, without limitation, the rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, modify, create derivative works, translate and reformat your Submission

F5 claims a broad, perpetual license to use and modify your user-generated content.

Communication Services

F5 reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever.

F5 can terminate your access to community services at any time for any reason without notice.

Transparency

F5 reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request

F5 will hand over your data to the government or law enforcement whenever they feel it is required by law, without explicitly promising to notify you.

Disclaimer

F5 WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS SITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES

F5 disclaims all responsibility for any harm or financial loss you might suffer from using their site.

Last reviewed 2026-09-03 under rubric v3.5.

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