New York Post Terms Scorecard

Grade F — Predatory terms (score 50/100)

The New York Post forces users into binding arbitration, waives class action rights, and claims a perpetual, irrevocable license to all user-generated content.

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

Terms at a glance

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

What the terms actually say

Section 19.3 — Mandatory Dispute Resolution

Any Covered Dispute... must be brought on an individual basis and will be resolved exclusively by final and binding arbitration.

You are prohibited from taking the company to court for almost any dispute.

Section 19.2 — Class Action Waiver

THE PARTIES WAIVE THE RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY OR TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION, MASS ACTION, GROUP ACTION, REPRESENTATIVE ACTION, AND/OR COLLECTIVE ACTION IN ANY DISPUTE.

You cannot join others in a class action lawsuit against the company.

Section 9.3 — User Content License

you grant to Company the unrestricted, worldwide, non-exclusive, irrevocable, perpetual, fully paid-up and royalty-free right and license... to host, cache, store, maintain, use, reproduce... for any purpose whatsoever

The company can use anything you post forever, for any reason, without paying you.

Section 2 — Modifications

We may modify these Terms from time to time and at any time in our sole discretion. Changes to these Terms of Use will be effective immediately

The company can change the rules of your agreement at any time without giving you advance notice.

Section 1 — Termination

Company may terminate your use of or registration to the Services at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice or explanation

The company can delete your account and access at any time for no reason.

Section 8.1 — Government Disclosure

you acknowledge, consent and agree that Company may access, preserve and disclose your account and registration information... if required to do so by law or if based on a good faith belief that such access, preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary

The company reserves the right to hand over your data to authorities based on their own judgment.

Section 4.3 — AI Training Prohibition

For the avoidance of doubt, you shall not use any Content for any machine learning or artificial intelligence (AI) purposes, including, but not limited to, developing, building, training, fine tuning, or grounding or otherwise utilizing in any large language models

The company explicitly forbids others from using their content to train AI models.

Last reviewed 2026-07-31 under rubric v3.5.

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