Grade C — Standard consumer terms (score 62/100)
wikiHow requires binding arbitration and class action waivers, and claims a perpetual, irrevocable license to your content, though it provides a clear mechanism for account and data deletion.
Forced arbitration and perpetual content license. Offers account deletion.
YOU AGREE THAT, BY ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT, YOU AND WIKIHOW ARE EACH WAIVING THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY OR TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION.
You are prohibited from suing the company in court or joining a class action lawsuit.
By posting any User Content on the Service, you expressly grant... a royalty-free, sublicensable, assignable, transferable, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide license to use... all such User Content
The company gains a permanent right to use, sell, and modify your content forever, even if you leave the platform.
wikiHow may, in its sole discretion, modify or update this Agreement from time to time... Your continued use of the Service after any such change constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms of Use.
The company can change the rules at any time without notifying you, and your continued use implies you agree to the new terms.
If you would like to have your wikiHow account and all personal data deleted from our site, we will be happy to do so. Just email [email protected]
You have a clear, documented way to request the deletion of your account and personal data.
using or scraping the content or data on the Service to train machine learning or to use in artificial intelligence models without express written permission from wikiHow
The company protects your content from being used to train AI models without your explicit permission.
Last reviewed 2026-08-01 under rubric v3.5.