HuffPost Terms Scorecard

Grade C — Standard consumer terms (score 62/100)

HuffPost claims a perpetual, sublicensable license to all user content and forces users into a class action waiver, while reserving the right to terminate accounts without notice.

Broad content license, forced arbitration, and unilateral modification rights.

Terms at a glance

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

What the terms actually say

License Grant

By submitting User Content through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable and transferable, license to use... in any media formats and through any media channels... including after your termination of your Account

You grant HuffPost a permanent, global right to use, modify, and redistribute your content in any way they choose, even after you leave the platform.

CLASS ACTION WAIVER

You agree that you will not sue BuzzFeed as a class plaintiff or class representative, join as a class member, or participate as an adverse party in any way in a class action lawsuit against BuzzFeed.

You are prohibited from participating in class action lawsuits against the company, limiting your ability to seek collective legal relief.

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 can ban you and delete your account data at any time for any reason without giving you prior warning.

RULES OF CONDUCT

use any manual or automated means... to access... any page of the Site... including without limitation for the purpose of training, fine-tuning, developing, test, validating, or improving any machine learning, artificial intelligence... system

The company strictly prohibits using their site content for AI training purposes.

Modification

We reserve the right... to modify or replace any part of this User Agreement... at any time by posting a notice on the Site or by sending you notice through the Services, via e-mail or by another appropriate means

The company commits to notifying users when they change the terms of service.

Last reviewed 2026-07-31 under rubric v3.5.

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