Grade B — Fair terms (score 77/100)
Mumsnet claims a perpetual, irrevocable, and sublicensable license to all user content, while reserving the right to terminate accounts and subscriptions at any time without cause.
Broad content license, no refunds, and unilateral termination rights.
By submitting User Content to us you automatically grant to us a worldwide, fully-paid up, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, fully sublicensable, and transferable right and license to use, store, record, sell, lease, copy, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works based upon... and otherwise exploit the User Content
You grant Mumsnet a permanent, global, and sublicensable right to use, sell, or modify your content for any purpose without paying you.
Mumsnet reserves the right to cancel individuals' subscriptions at any time and for any reason. If your membership... is terminated by Mumsnet... you will not be entitled to receive a refund of payments already taken.
Mumsnet can cancel your subscription for any reason and keep your money, even if you have not used the full term.
on rare occasions where there appears to be a clear need to safeguard the welfare of a Mumsnetter... it may be necessary to contact relevant authorities about a clearly identifiable member and his/her posts
Mumsnet reserves the right to disclose your identity and posts to authorities at their own discretion to safeguard welfare.
If you choose to, you can deregister your account entirely (closing your membership and removing access to the platform).
You have a clear, self-serve mechanism to delete your account and remove your access.
For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this clause grants permission to use the Website’s content for training or improving AI systems.
Mumsnet explicitly denies any implied license for AI companies to train models on their site content.
Last reviewed 2026-08-20 under rubric v3.5.