Grade F — Predatory terms (score 49/100)
The Daily Beast forces binding arbitration, claims a perpetual license to your content, and reserves the right to terminate your account at any time for any reason without notice.
Forced arbitration, perpetual content license, and unilateral termination.
YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOU WILL ARBITRATE WITH TDB IN YOUR INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, NOT AS A REPRESENTATIVE OR MEMBER OF A CLASS. Your claim may not be joined with any claim of any other person, and there shall not be authority for any dispute to be arbitrated on a class-action basis.
You are prohibited from joining class action lawsuits and must resolve all disputes through individual arbitration.
You are giving TDB the worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, transferable, and fully sublicensable right and license to display, distribute, reproduce, transmit, publish, perform, translate, edit, adapt, remove, modify, create derivative works from, make, sell, offer for sale, export, and otherwise use and exploit such User Submissions
You grant the company a permanent, global, and transferable license to use, sell, and modify your content for any purpose, including marketing, without compensation.
TDB may terminate this agreement for any reason at any time. TDB reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to and use of the Services, with or without prior notice.
The company can terminate your account or access at any time, for any reason, without giving you prior notice.
We reserve the right to change these Terms or to modify any features of the Services at any time. ... by registering for the Services or continuing to use the Services after the posting of such changes, you agree to be bound by the changes.
The company can change the terms at any time, and your continued use of the site constitutes acceptance of those changes.
Nothing contained in these Terms is in derogation of TDB’s right to comply with governmental, court, and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of the Services
The company reserves the right to share your data with law enforcement or government agencies at its discretion.
You may terminate your account at any time by contacting us at [email protected].
You have the right to close your account at any time by emailing support.
Last reviewed 2026-08-03 under rubric v3.5.