ShareThis Terms Scorecard

Grade C — Standard consumer terms (score 62/100)

ShareThis claims a perpetual, irrevocable license to your data and forces users into arbitration in California, while reserving the right to change terms without notice.

Broad data license, forced arbitration, and unilateral term changes.

Terms at a glance

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

What the terms actually say

Section V.2 — License

You grant to Us a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide, fully sub-licensable, and irrevocable right and license to: ... Use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display, broadcast, transmit and distribute the Usage Data for any purpose.

ShareThis claims a permanent, irrevocable right to use and sell your data for any purpose, even after you stop using their service.

Section XX — General Terms

We may assign these Terms at any time, with or without notice to You. ... You understand and agree that by continuing to use the ShareThis Publisher Applications after We post or provide notice of the changes to these Terms, You affirm Your acceptance to the Terms as modified.

The company can change the terms at any time without notifying you, and your continued use constitutes acceptance of those changes.

Section XX — General Terms

You further agree that any disputes or claims that You may have against Us will be resolved by a state or federal court located in Santa Clara County, State of California, and You agree and submit to the exercise of personal jurisdiction of such courts.

You are forced to resolve all legal disputes in California, which may be inconvenient or expensive depending on your location.

Section V.1 — General

We offer the standard ShareThis Publisher Applications on Our Website at no charge to Publishers in consideration of our Publishers giving Us the right to collect and use data from the use of our ShareThis Publisher Applications on the Publisher Site.

The service is free because you agree to let them collect and sell data from your website visitors.

Section IV.1 — Eligibility

We retain the right to terminate Your account and Your rights to use the ShareThis Publisher Applications for any reason.

The company can shut down your account at any time for any reason without prior notice.

Last reviewed 2026-08-01 under rubric v3.5.

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