GE Terms Scorecard

Grade B — Fair terms (score 76/100)

GE claims a perpetual, irrevocable license to user content and requires users to indemnify the company for legal claims, while limiting the time to bring a lawsuit to one year.

Broad content license, indemnification, and short statute of limitations.

Terms at a glance

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

What the terms actually say

Materials You Submit

If you do submit material... you grant GE and its affiliates an unrestricted, nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute and display such material throughout the world in any media.

By submitting content, you grant GE a permanent, global, and irrevocable license to use, modify, and distribute your work in any media without compensation.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless GE and its affiliates... from and against any and all losses, liabilities, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees and court costs.

You are required to pay for GE's legal defense and any damages if your use of the site results in a third-party claim against them.

Limitation of Liability

You and GE agree that any cause of action arising out of or related to the site must commence within one (1) year after the cause of action accrues or the cause of action is permanently barred.

You must file any legal claim against GE within one year, or you lose the right to sue entirely.

Changes to These Terms of Use

In the event we make material changes to the Terms of Use, notice of the changes will be posted on the homepage of this Web site and the revised terms will take effect thirty days after their publication on the site.

GE provides a 30-day notice period on their homepage for material changes to the terms.

Use of Materials on the Site

GE... provide this material to you under a license that is revocable at any time in GE's sole discretion.

GE reserves the right to terminate your access to the site or its content whenever they choose.

Last reviewed 2026-07-25 under rubric v3.5.

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