WordPress Terms Scorecard

Grade A — Highly protective (score 92/100)

The terms grant the company broad rights to terminate accounts without notice and require users to indemnify the company against all legal claims.

Broad termination rights, indemnification, and unilateral changes.

Terms at a glance

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

What the terms actually say

Section 13 — Termination

We may terminate your access to all or any part of our Services at any time, with or without cause or notice, effective immediately.

The company reserves the right to delete your account and content at any time for any reason without prior warning.

Section 17 — Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Automattic, its contractors, and its licensors... from and against any and all losses, liabilities, demands, damages, costs, claims, and expenses, including attorneys’ fees.

You are financially responsible for the company's legal costs and damages if your use of the service leads to a third-party claim.

Section 12 — Changes

If we do this, we’ll provide notice of the changes... we may notify you through our Services or other communications.

The company commits to providing notice when they make material changes to the terms of service.

Section 8A — License

You grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, and non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, modify, distribute, adapt, publicly display, and publish the Content for the purpose of providing and improving our products and Services

You grant the company a broad license to use your content to operate and improve their services.

Last reviewed 2026-07-26 under rubric v3.5.