Nike Terms Scorecard

Grade D — Sign with caution (score 58/100)

Nike's terms include a perpetual, irrevocable license to your content and force users into individual arbitration in Oregon, while severely limiting their liability.

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

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
UNCLEAR
Easy to cancel
UNCLEAR
Tells you before changes
NO
Deletes data on request
UNCLEAR

What the terms actually say

Section 4 — License to Use

You grant NIKE... a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide and fully paid license to use... your User Content... for any purpose, including commercial uses

Nike claims a permanent, royalty-free right to use anything you post for any commercial purpose, and you cannot revoke this license.

Section 16 — Venue

all Claims shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action or any other kind of representative proceeding, and exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Multnomah County, Oregon, USA.

You waive your right to participate in class action lawsuits and must resolve disputes individually in Oregon.

Section 14 — Modification and Termination

NIKE may terminate or modify all or part of any Services... at any time without notice.

Nike reserves the right to change the service or terminate your access at any time without providing you prior notice.

Section 13 — Limitation of Liability

THE MAXIMUM AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF NIKE AND THE OTHER NIKE PARTIES SHALL NOT EXCEED THE LESSER OF (I) US $100.00... OR, (II) THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU TO NIKE

Nike limits its total financial liability to you to $100 or the amount you paid, whichever is lower.

Section 6 — Be Respectful

You may not... Use any content, data, or information from the Services... to develop, create, train, test, fine-tune, prompt, benchmark, or otherwise improve or validate (i) any machine learning or artificial intelligence tools

Nike prohibits users from using their data for AI training, though they reserve the right to use your content for their own AI development.

Last reviewed 2026-07-25 under rubric v3.5.

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