Grade C+ — Standard consumer terms (score 65/100)
SoundCloud avoids forced arbitration and class action waivers, but reserves broad rights to terminate accounts and shares user data for personalized advertising.
No forced arbitration. Data sharing for ads. Account termination is broad.
we serve tailored ads on the Platform on behalf of third party advertisers. To that end, we use information that you make available to us when you interact with the Platform to inform the nature of the ads we show you
The company shares your activity and interaction data with third-party advertisers to facilitate targeted advertising.
SoundCloud may suspend your access to the Platform and/or terminate this Agreement at any time... in other reasonable circumstances as determined by SoundCloud at its discretion.
The company reserves the right to terminate your account at their sole discretion for a wide range of reasons.
Licenses with respect to comments or other contributions that you make on the Platform will be perpetual and irrevocable, and will continue notwithstanding any termination of your account.
Comments and contributions you make remain on the platform forever, even after you delete your account.
When we make any significant changes to these Terms of Use, we will provide you with prominent notice... and the revised Terms of Use will become effective two (2) weeks after such notification.
The company commits to providing advance notice before significant changes to the terms take effect.
We will not use your content to train generative AI models... without your explicit consent, which must be affirmatively provided through an opt-in mechanism.
The company explicitly protects your content from being used for AI training without your specific permission.
Last reviewed 2026-06-20 under rubric v3.2.