Grade F — Predatory terms (score 51/100)
Kik's terms include a mandatory arbitration clause, a perpetual license to user content, and broad rights for the company to terminate accounts and delete content without notice.
Forced arbitration, perpetual content license, and broad termination rights.
Any dispute, claim, or cause of action... shall be resolved by confidential binding arbitration on an individual basis, rather than in court... You and MediaLab each waive your respective rights to a jury trial for Disputes.
You cannot sue the company in court or join a class action; you must use private arbitration.
You grant MediaLab a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, transferable, and fully sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, host, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, run, publicly perform or display your User Content.
The company has broad, permanent rights to use your content for any purpose, including marketing.
MediaLab reserves the right, without notice and in its sole discretion, to terminate your license to use the Services... at any time and to block or prevent your future access... for any or no reason.
The company can delete your account and access at any time without warning.
We will investigate activity... and, where appropriate, may provide information about your use of the Services to law enforcement authorities and other third parties.
The company reserves the right to share your data with authorities at their discretion.
you grant us a... irrevocable, worldwide license... to... researching and developing new products and services.
The company claims an irrevocable right to use your content to train AI models.
If we make changes to these Terms, we will provide notice by posting a notice on the Services and will give you an opportunity to review the changes before they go into effect.
The company commits to notifying you of changes before they become active.
Last reviewed 2026-07-25 under rubric v3.5.