Microsoft Terms Scorecard

Grade B+ — Fair terms (score 80/100)

Microsoft reserves the right to modify terms without notice, claims a broad license to user content, and disclaims all liability for service performance or data loss.

Broad content license, unilateral changes, and no liability for service failures.

Terms at a glance

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

What the terms actually say

ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

Microsoft reserves the right to update and modify the TOU at any time without notice to you.

Microsoft can change these terms whenever they want without notifying you.

MATERIALS PROVIDED TO MICROSOFT

by Posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you are granting Microsoft... the license rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Submission

You give Microsoft a broad, perpetual, royalty-free license to use, modify, and distribute anything you post.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

In no event shall Microsoft and/or its respective suppliers be liable for any special, indirect or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits

Microsoft accepts no responsibility for any harm, including data loss or financial loss, caused by their services.

USE OF SERVICES

Microsoft reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as Microsoft deems necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request

Microsoft will share your data with the government at their own discretion.

USE OF SERVICES

Microsoft reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time, without notice, for any reason whatsoever.

Microsoft can delete your account or block your access for any reason without telling you why.

Last reviewed 2026-08-03 under rubric v3.5.

Other scorecards