Grade B- — Mostly fair (score 72/100)
FamilySearch claims a perpetual, irrevocable, and sublicensable license to all user-contributed content and reserves the right to modify terms without notice.
Perpetual content license. Unilateral changes. No liability for data loss.
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... that you submit
You grant the company a permanent, global right to use, modify, and share your family history data for any purpose they deem appropriate.
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 update the terms whenever they want, and it is your responsibility to check for updates.
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 limits its financial responsibility to the amount you paid, which is zero for free users.
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
All legal disputes must be handled in Utah courts, which may be inconvenient or expensive for users living elsewhere.
you agree that we shall be neither responsible nor liable for errors or omissions in any content you may find on this site, nor for loss, damage, or corruption of Contributed Content that you submit or post.
The company is not responsible if your uploaded genealogical data is lost, damaged, or corrupted.
Last reviewed 2026-08-05 under rubric v3.5.