Guinness World Records Terms Scorecard

Grade C+ — Standard consumer terms (score 69/100)

The terms grant a perpetual, transferable license to user content and allow the company to modify terms or terminate accounts at any time without notice.

Broad content license, unilateral changes, and no notice for termination.

Terms at a glance

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

What the terms actually say

Introduction

We may modify these Terms of Use, the Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy at any time and such modification will be effective upon posting to this website.

The company can change the rules at any time without notifying you directly.

Your User Content

By submitting User Content to the GWR Services, you hereby grant us a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sub-licensable and transferable license to use... all or any portion of the User Content.

You give the company permanent, broad rights to use your content forever, even if you leave the service.

Your Use of the GWR Services

Membership of the GWR Services is subject, in our sole discretion, to termination at any time.

The company can terminate your account at any time for any reason.

Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless from and against any claims, actions or demands, including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees.

You must pay the company's legal bills if you are sued or violate the terms.

General

These terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Wales which shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes.

All legal disputes must be resolved in the UK.

Last reviewed 2026-08-19 under rubric v3.5.

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