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The terms include a class action waiver, a perpetual license to your content, and a one-year statute of limitations for legal claims.
Class action waiver, perpetual content license, and short claim window.
grant us... a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to use... such material... for any purpose that we choose
You grant the company a permanent, irrevocable license to use anything you post for any purpose, including selling it, without paying you.
You and USA TODAY Co. agree that each party may bring disputes against the other party only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class or representative proceeding
You waive your right to participate in class action lawsuits against the company.
any claim or cause of action that you may have... must be filed by you within one year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.
You must file any legal claim within one year, or you lose the right to sue entirely.
we may suspend or terminate your password, account... or use of the Site... at any time, for any reason, without notice.
The company can ban you and delete your content at any time without giving you a reason or prior notice.
use our Site or any Content to develop or improve any software program, model, algorithm, machine learning or artificial intelligence (AI) system or tool
The company prohibits users from using their content to train AI models.
if we do intend to enforce a material change retroactively, we will notify you by posting a prominent notice of the change on the home or landing page of the Site
The company commits to providing notice on their site if they make material changes to the terms.
Last reviewed 2026-07-27 under rubric v3.5.