NewsBreak Terms Scorecard

Grade F — Predatory terms (score 47/100)

NewsBreak forces binding arbitration, claims a perpetual license to your content, and limits its liability to $100.

Forced arbitration, perpetual content license, and broad liability disclaimers.

Terms at a glance

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

What the terms actually say

Section 14 — Mandatory Arbitration

You and NewsBreak agree that each may bring claims against the other only in your or its individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class or representative proceeding.

You are prohibited from joining class action lawsuits against the company.

Section 2 — Our License to Your User Content

When you Post User Content... you grant NewsBreak a world-wide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive, and sub-licenseable license to use... such User Content.

The company claims a permanent, irrevocable right to use anything you post, forever.

Section 10 — Warranties and Disclaimers

IN NO EVENT SHALL NEWSBREAK... BE LIABLE TO YOU... FOR ANY DAMAGES... IN ANY EVENT, OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY WILL NOT EXCEED THE HIGHER OF THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU TO NEWSBREAK... OR $100.

The company caps its total legal liability to you at $100.

Section 12 — Modification and Termination

We may, in our sole and absolute discretion, deny you access to all or part of the Services at any time for any or no reason at all, with or without notice to you.

The company can terminate your account at any time without telling you why.

Section 14.9 — Changes to This Section

NewsBreak will provide thirty (30) days' notice of any changes affecting the substance to this section by posting on the Services. Amendments will become effective thirty (30) days after they are posted on the Services or sent to you by email. If you continue to use the Services after the 30th day, you agree that any unfiled claims... are subject to the revised clause.

The company can change the arbitration terms and bind you to them if you keep using the service.

Section 1 — Account Registration

For subscriptions billed directly through NewsBreak, you may cancel or change your subscription by logging into your account and by clicking on the "Subscribed" button > "Subscription management" > "Cancel Subscription".

Cancellation is self-serve and does not require a phone call or email.

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

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