McDonald’s Terms Scorecard

Grade B- — Mostly fair (score 71/100)

McDonald's terms include mandatory arbitration and class action waivers, alongside a broad, perpetual license to user submissions, though they provide a clear account deletion mechanism.

Forced arbitration, class action waiver, and broad content license.

Terms at a glance

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

What the terms actually say

Section 9 — How we settle disputes

any claim or dispute ... will be resolved exclusively by final and binding arbitration ... you and McDonald’s hereby waive the right to assert claims in any class or representative action

Mandatory arbitration and class action waiver.

Section 6 — User Submissions

you grant McDonald's a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, sublicense to others, modify, translate, prepare derivative works of

Broad, perpetual license to user content.

Updates to these terms

If McDonald’s makes material changes to the terms, we will notify you by reasonable means.

Commitment to notify users of material changes.

Account deletion

You can request account deletion by visiting the Privacy Rights Center and making a deletion request

Clear, self-serve account deletion.

Last reviewed 2026-07-27 under rubric v3.5.

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