Politico Terms Scorecard

Grade B- — Mostly fair (score 74/100)

Politico reserves broad rights to user content and allows unilateral changes to terms, while imposing a one-year statute of limitations on all legal claims.

Broad content license, unilateral changes, and shortened statute of limitations.

Terms at a glance

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

What the terms actually say

Section 4 — Term and Termination

POLITICO may, in its discretion, terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the Site... with or without cause by delivering notice to you.

Politico reserves the right to ban you or suspend your access for any reason, at their sole discretion.

Section 8 — Community Forums

By submitting Message to a Forum you are granting POLITICO perpetual royalty free non-exclusive licence to reproduce, modify, translate, make available, distribute and sub-license the Message in whole or in part and in any form.

You grant Politico a permanent, free, and sub-licensable right to use anything you post in forums, which survives even if you stop using the service.

Section 11 — Miscellaneous

Any cause of action of yours with respect to these Terms must be filed in a court of competent jurisdiction in Brussels, Belgium and, within one year after the cause of action has arisen, or such cause will be barred, invalid, and void.

You must bring any legal claim against the company within one year, or you lose the right to sue entirely.

Section 11 — Changes to these Terms

POLITICO may, in its discretion, change these Terms... POLITICO will notify you by email or by publishing details of those changes... If you use the Site after POLITICO has published or notified you of the changes, you are agreeing now to be bound by those changes.

Politico can change the terms at any time, and your continued use of the site constitutes your agreement to the new terms.

Section 3 — Licence Fee, Payment, and Transactions

A print subscription to POLITICO can be cancelled at any time.

You have the right to cancel your print subscription whenever you choose.

Last reviewed 2026-08-04 under rubric v3.5.

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