Waze Terms Scorecard

Grade B- — Mostly fair (score 70/100)

Waze claims a perpetual, irrevocable, and transferable license to your content and reserves the right to terminate your account at its sole discretion.

Broad content license, unilateral changes, and restrictive jurisdiction.

Terms at a glance

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

What the terms actually say

YOUR CONTENT

If your content is protected by intellectual property rights, you grant Waze a license to use, copy, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, modify, and create derivative works based on your content. This license is: ... perpetual, or lasts for as long as your content is protected by intellectual property rights irrevocable

Waze claims a permanent, non-revocable right to use, modify, and profit from any content you submit to the service.

TERMINATION OF USE OF THE SERVICE

Waze retains the right to block your access to the Service and discontinue your use of the Service, at any time and for any reason Waze deems appropriate, at its sole and absolute discretion.

Waze can terminate your account at any time for any reason without prior notice or explanation.

MODIFICATIONS TO THE SERVICE

Waze may, either partially or in its entirety and without being obligated to provide prior notice – modify, adapt or change the Service

Waze reserves the right to change the service features or design at any time without notifying you.

GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION

Any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of, connected with or relating to these Terms and the Service, will be under the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent court in the Tel Aviv district in Israel.

All legal disputes must be handled in Israeli courts, which may be inconvenient or expensive for international users.

LIMITATIONS

Should you desire to file any cause of action against Waze... you must do so within one (1) year of the day you become aware of the cause of action.

You have a shortened one-year window to bring legal claims against the company.

TERMINATION OF USE OF THE SERVICE

If you want to delete your Waze account and your personal information, you can do so by using the “Delete Account” function in the in app Privacy Settings

You have a self-serve, one-click method to delete your account and personal data.

Last reviewed 2026-07-31 under rubric v3.5.

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