The Hollywood Reporter Terms Scorecard

Grade D — Sign with caution (score 56/100)

The terms include a class action waiver and grant the company a perpetual, sub-licensable license to your content, while allowing them to modify the agreement without notice.

Class action waiver, perpetual content license, and unilateral change rights.

Terms at a glance

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

What the terms actually say

Miscellaneous

any and all disputes, claims, and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Site and/or these Terms, will be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action.

You waive your right to participate in a class action lawsuit.

User Content

you hereby grant to Company a non-exclusive, sub-licensable, worldwide, fully-paid, royalty free license to use your User Content... in any and all media now known or hereinafter developed without the requirement to make payment to you

The company has a perpetual, royalty-free license to use your content in any way they see fit.

Terms of Use

Company may, in its sole discretion, and at any time, discontinue this Site or any part thereof, with or without notice

The company can terminate your account or access without any prior warning.

Terms of Use

From time to time we may update this Site and these Terms. Your use of this Site after we post any changes to these Terms constitutes your agreement to those changes. You agree to review these Terms periodically

You are responsible for checking for updates to the terms, as they can change without direct notice.

Miscellaneous

By using this Site, you hereby agree that any and all disputes regarding these Terms will be subject to the courts located in New York, New York.

Legal disputes must be handled in New York courts, regardless of where you live.

Last reviewed 2026-08-02 under rubric v3.5.

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