Glossary
Broad content license
You grant the company rights to use, modify, sublicense, or commercialize content you upload—sometimes forever and worldwide.
Found in 21 published policies (26 matching findings). Not legal advice.
Why it matters
Your posts, photos, or files may be reused in ways you did not expect, even after you delete your account.
What to look for
“Perpetual,” “irrevocable,” “sublicense,” “royalty-free,” or “worldwide license” covering user content.
Examples from published reviews
DoorDash · DoorDash · Terms of service
Broad License to Use User Content
Users grant DoorDash a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, fully sublicensable, royalty-free license to use their User Content for DoorDash's business, without needing user notification or approval, and the license survives account termination.
Open the full reviewDoorDash · DoorDash · Terms of service
Promotional Use of User Profile Information
Users grant DoorDash a license to use their username, first name, last initial, profile photo, and other profile information, including ratings history, to attribute User Content, without requiring notification or approval from the user.
Open the full reviewMeta · Facebook · Terms of service
Grant of License for User Content
You grant Meta a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your intellectual property-covered content when shared on their products.
Open the full reviewCloudflare · Cloudflare · Terms of service
You grant Cloudflare a broad license to use content you submit without compensation.
By submitting, posting, or publishing content, suggestions, feedback, data, or comments ("Content") to any Website or Online Service, you grant Cloudflare a permanent, irreversible, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, incorporate, exploit, display, perform, reproduce, distribute, and create derivative works of your Content. You keep ownership, but Cloudflare may use your Content without paying you.
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