SmartLife Terms Scorecard

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

SmartLife forces binding arbitration, claims a perpetual license to your content for AI training, and allows unilateral changes to terms without notice.

Forced arbitration, broad AI license, and unilateral term changes.

Terms at a glance

Sells your data
UNCLEAR
Forced arbitration
YES
Trains AI on your content
YES
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 11.2 — Arbitration

Any dispute... shall be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration administered by the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre.

You cannot sue the company in court; you must use private arbitration in Hong Kong.

Section 13.8 — AI Content License

you grant Volcano and/or its affiliates a free, worldwide, transferable, sublicensable, and re-licensable right to use your content for the purposes of model service optimization, brand promotion, and publicity.

The company can use your uploaded content to train their AI models and for their own advertising forever.

Introduction — Unilateral Changes

Upon notification, the changes are automatically incorporated as a part of the Terms without further notice. If you object to any such changes, please stop your use of the Services; continued usage of the Services will be deemed as agreement to the changes.

The company can change the terms at any time, and if you keep using the app, you automatically agree to the new rules.

Section 10.4 — Liability Cap

the total liability of Volcano to you... shall in no event exceed the fees (if any) paid by you to Volcano during the period when you use the Software.

The company limits its legal liability to the amount you paid them, which is zero for free users.

Section 9.1 — Termination

Volcano may terminate the Services provided to you and/or your license to use Volcano if you are in material breach of any of the Terms.

The company has broad rights to terminate your account and access to the service.

Last reviewed 2026-08-07 under rubric v3.5.

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