Grade B- — Mostly fair (score 72/100)
FamilySearch maintains broad, perpetual rights to user-contributed genealogical data and enforces strict, inconvenient legal venue requirements for all users.
Perpetual content license, unilateral changes, and inconvenient jurisdiction.
you hereby grant us with an unrestricted, fully paid-up, royalty-free, worldwide, irrevocable, sublicensable, and perpetual license to use any and all information, content, and other materials
The company claims a permanent, global right to use your genealogical data for any purpose.
We reserve the right to change this Agreement at any time, so please check for changes to this Agreement each time you use this site.
The company can change the rules without notice, placing the burden on the user to monitor for updates.
Any action you bring to enforce this Agreement or any matters related to this site shall be brought in either the state or federal courts located in Salt Lake County, Utah
Legal disputes are restricted to Utah courts, which is inconvenient for most users.
In no event shall our total liability to you for all damages, losses, and causes of action exceed the amount paid by you, if any, for accessing this site
The company effectively limits its financial liability to zero for free users.
Last reviewed 2026-09-02 under rubric v3.5.