Meta (Facebook) Terms Scorecard

Grade A- — Mostly protective (score 85/100)

Meta's updated terms maintain a permissive intellectual property license and a standard $100 liability cap while continuing to allow user recourse through the court system rather than mandatory arbitration.

Retains broad content licenses and $100 liability cap, but avoids arbitration.

Terms at a glance

Sells your data
NO
Forced arbitration
NO
Trains AI on your content
LIKELY
Easy to cancel
YES
Tells you before changes
YES
Deletes data on request
YES

What the terms actually say

§ 3.3.2 — Permission to use content you create and share

you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, and worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your content

Meta retains a broad license to your content, which survives until you delete the item or your account.

§ 4.3 — Limits on liability

Our aggregate liability arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Meta Products will not exceed the greater of $100 or the amount you have paid us in the past twelve months.

Financial liability is capped at $100 for non-paying users, which is effectively a nominal cap.

§ 4.4 — Disputes

You and Meta each agree that any claim... shall be resolved exclusively in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California or a state court located in San Mateo County.

Users retain the right to sue in court rather than being forced into private, binding arbitration.

Last reviewed 2026-06-20 under rubric v3.2.

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