Plex Terms Scorecard

Grade B- — Mostly fair (score 72/100)

Plex maintains broad rights to use your content for commercial purposes and reserves the right to modify terms without direct notice, though it provides a self-serve account deletion option.

Standard terms. Includes broad content license and unilateral change rights.

Terms at a glance

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

What the terms actually say

Section 1 — Permission to User Content

Additionally, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable and non-exclusive right to use, reproduce, distribute and display (including for commercial and marketing purposes) on the Service and in other media, any User Content

Plex claims a broad license to use your personal content, including your name and avatar, for their own commercial gain.

Section 9 — Entire Agreement and Updates

Your continued use of the Plex Solution following any addition, modification, or deletion will be conclusively deemed acceptance of any change to the terms and conditions of this TOS.

By continuing to use the service, you automatically agree to any changes Plex makes to the terms, regardless of whether you were notified.

Section 7 — Limitation of Liability

YOUR ABILITY TO RECOVER FROM PLEX ... SHALL BE STRICTLY LIMITED TO PAYMENT OF EITHER AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $100 OR THE TOTAL AMOUNT ACTUALLY PAID BY YOU TO PLEX DURING THE PAST THREE MONTHS

Your potential financial recovery from Plex in a legal dispute is severely capped.

Section 2 — Enforcing Security

Plex reserves the right to view, monitor, and record activity through the Plex Solution without notice or permission from you.

Plex reserves the right to monitor your activity on the platform at their discretion.

Section 9 — Term and Termination

You may close your account by clicking here.

Plex provides a direct, self-serve link to close your account.

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

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