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Grade B — Fair terms (score 79/100)
The HuffPost User Agreement grants the company a perpetual, sublicensable license to user content and reserves broad rights to terminate accounts and modify terms without meaningful user control.
Broad content license, termination rights, and indemnification requirements.
you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable and transferable, license to use... including after your termination of your Account or the Services.
Users grant a perpetual, sublicensable license to all content, which survives account termination.
We may terminate your access to all or any part of the Services at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately
The company reserves the right to terminate accounts at any time for any reason without notice.
You shall defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the BuzzFeed Entities from all liabilities, claims, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees
Users are required to indemnify the company against all legal claims and costs.
You shall have the ability to delete your Account. Please go to our Consent Preferences Center
Users have a clear, self-serve mechanism for account deletion.
We reserve the right... to modify or replace any part of this User Agreement... by posting a notice on the Site or by sending you notice through the Services, via e-mail
The company provides advance notice of changes via Site posting or email.
Last reviewed 2026-10-11 under rubric v3.5.