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Snap's Terms of Service include important provisions that users should be aware of. For most disputes, you agree to mandatory binding arbitration, waiving your right to participate in a class-action lawsuit (risk_flags-1). Snap provides its services and AI-enabled features "as-is," without warranties of quality, security, or accuracy, meaning you use them at your own risk and should not rely on AI outputs for important decisions (risk_flags-2, risk_flags-3). Snap explicitly states it is not responsible for third-party content or services linked through its platform (risk_flags-4).
Regarding data, Snap collects your information to personalize your experience, including ads and content (data_use-1). You grant Snap broad, worldwide, royalty-free licenses to use your content for various purposes, including operating, developing, and promoting its services. For Public Content, this license is unrestricted, perpetual, and means you won't be compensated for its use (data_use-2, data_use-3).
Snap can restrict or terminate your access to the Services at any time for various reasons, including non-compliance with terms, or even prolonged inactivity (cancellation_renewal-1). Content you save in "Memories" is not guaranteed to be permanently available, and Snap advises backing it up elsewhere (cancellation_renewal-2).
Finally, you are responsible for any mobile charges incurred while using the Services (gotchas-1), and failure to update your phone number within 72 hours of changing it may result in messages intended for you being sent to someone else (gotchas-2). Snap reserves the right to make changes to its services and terms, potentially without prior individual notice for minor changes (gotchas-3).
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Risks of Using the Service
These are the policies that describe potential risks to the user for simply using the service as intended.
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The Services are provided 'as-is' without guarantees of quality, security, or availability.
The Services are provided "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" without warranties of any kind regarding MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. Snap does not represent or warrant that the Services will always be secure, error-free, timely, function without delays, disruptions, or imperfections, or that any content or information obtained through the Services will be timely or accurate.
Why it matters: Snap does not guarantee the quality, security, or availability of its Services, meaning you might experience errors, delays, disruptions, or inaccurate content without recourse.
THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” AND TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN ADDITION, WHILE WE ATTEMPT TO PROVIDE A GOOD USER EXPERIENCE, WE DO NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT: (A) THE SERVICES WILL ALWAYS BE SECURE, ERROR-FREE, OR TIMELY, (B) THE SERVICES WILL ALWAYS FUNCTION WITHOUT DELAYS, DISRUPTIONS, OR IMPERFECTIONS, OR (C) THAT ANY CONTENT, USER CONTENT, OR INFORMATION YOU OBTAIN ON OR THROUGH THE SERVICES WILL BE TIMELY OR ACCURATE.
Termination and Suspension, paragraph 12 · Citation strength: strong
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You use AI-enabled features at your own risk, and their outputs may be inaccurate or inappropriate.
AI Features and Outputs are provided as-is without representations or warranties of any kind, meaning your use of any AI Features and Outputs is at your own risk. You should not rely on them for any purpose, including decisions or professional advice, and Outputs are not Snap representations. Outputs may be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, offensive, objectionable, inappropriate, infringing, unsuitable, unlawful, unfit for particular purposes, or similar to content generated for other users.
Why it matters: You bear all risk when using AI-enabled features, as Snap does not guarantee their accuracy or appropriateness, and their outputs are not official representations. You should not rely on these features for any critical information or decisions.
AI Features and Outputs are provided as-is and made available to you without representations or warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. This means that your use of any AI Features and Outputs is at your own risk, and you should not rely on them for any purpose, including to make decisions or for professional, medical, legal, financial, educational or other advice. Outputs are not Snap representations.
Privacy, paragraph 8 · Citation strength: strong
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Snap is not responsible for third-party content or services.
Snap is not responsible for examining or evaluating the content, accuracy, completeness, availability, timeliness, validity, copyright compliance, legality, decency, quality, or any other aspect of Third-Party Materials or third-party services or websites, and will not have any liability or responsibility to you or any other person for any third-party services, Third-Party Materials, or third-party websites.
Why it matters: If you use third-party services or materials linked through Snap, Snap is not responsible for their quality or accuracy. You must review the third-party's terms, and any issues you encounter are not Snap's liability.
Further, by using the Services, you acknowledge and agree that Snap is not responsible for examining or evaluating the content, accuracy, completeness, availability, timeliness, validity, copyright compliance, legality, decency, quality, or any other aspect of such Third-Party Materials or third-party services or websites. We do not warrant or endorse and do not assume and will not have any liability or responsibility to you or any other person for any third-party services, Third-Party Materials, or third-party websites, or for any other materials, products, or services of third parties.
Data Charges and Mobile Phones, paragraph 6 · Citation strength: strong
Data Use and Sharing
These policies describe how the company collects, processes, and shares personal data, and for what purposes.
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Snap collects and uses your information to provide personalized services and ads.
Snap collects and uses your information to provide the Services, offering a personalized experience by showing ads and recommending content based on your interests, as explained in their Privacy Policy.
Why it matters: Your information is collected and used by Snap to customize your experience, including the ads and content you see.
**We collect and use your information to provide the Services**: See our [Privacy Policy](https://values.snap.com/privacy/privacy-policy?lang=en-US) for details.
Title: Terms of Service, paragraph 4 · Citation strength: strong
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You grant Snap a license to use your content for operating, developing, and promoting services.
For all content you create or submit to the Services, you grant Snap and its affiliates a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to host, store, cache, use, display, reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, publish, analyze, transmit, and distribute that content. This license serves the purpose of operating, developing, providing, promoting, and improving the Services and researching and developing new ones.
Why it matters: Snap has broad rights to use content you create or submit on its Services, including for advertising and service improvement, without needing to compensate you.
For all content you create using the Services, or submit or make available to the Services (including Public Content), you grant Snap and our affiliates a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to host, store, cache, use, display, reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, publish, analyze, transmit, and distribute that content, including the name, image, likeness, or voice of anyone featured in it. This license is for the purpose of operating, developing, providing, promoting, and improving the Services and researching and developing new ones.
Snap Inc. Terms of Service, paragraph 18 · Citation strength: strong
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Public content grants Snap an unrestricted, worldwide, perpetual license and no compensation.
For Public Content, you grant Snap, its affiliates, other users, and business partners an unrestricted, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, and perpetual right and license to use it in various ways for commercial and non-commercial purposes. This means you will not be compensated if your Public Content or elements within it are used by Snap, its affiliates, users, or business partners.
Why it matters: By submitting Public Content, you give Snap and others an unrestricted right to use it globally and forever, for commercial purposes, without any compensation to you.
Because Public Content is inherently public, you grant Snap, our affiliates, other users of the Services, and our business partners an unrestricted, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, and perpetual right and license to create derivative works from, promote, exhibit, broadcast, syndicate, reproduce, distribute, synchronize, overlay graphics and auditory effects on, publicly perform, and publicly display all or any portion of your Public Content in any form and in any and all media or distribution methods, now known or later developed, for commercial and non-commercial purposes.
Snap Inc. Terms of Service, paragraph 19 · Citation strength: strong
Cancellation and Renewal Terms
These policies describe how and when a user or the company can cancel a service, and terms related to automatic renewals.
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Snap can restrict or terminate your access to Services at any time, for any reason.
Snap may restrict, terminate, or temporarily suspend your access to the Services if you fail to comply with these Terms, community guidelines, or the law, for reasons outside of Snap's control, or for any other reason.
Why it matters: Snap has the right to cut off your access to its services at any time, for a variety of reasons, including account inactivity.
We may restrict, terminate, or temporarily suspend your access to the Services if you fail to comply with these Terms, our [Community Guidelines](https://values.snap.com/privacy/transparency/community-guidelines?lang=en-US) or the law, for reasons outside of our control, or for any other reason. That means that we may terminate these Terms, stop providing you with all or any part of the Services, or impose new or additional limits on your ability to use our Services. For example, we may deactivate your account due to prolonged inactivity, and we may reclaim your username at any time for any reason.
Termination and Suspension, paragraph 2 · Citation strength: strong
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Content stored in Memories may become unavailable, and Snap does not guarantee its persistence.
Content in Memories might become unavailable due to various reasons, such as operational glitches or account termination. Snap cannot promise that your content will always be available and recommends keeping a separate copy.
Why it matters: Your saved Memories are not guaranteed to be permanently available, and Snap advises you to back up your content elsewhere, meaning you could lose important saved items.
Your content in Memories might become unavailable for any number of reasons, including things like an operational glitch or a decision on our end to terminate your account. Since we can’t promise that your content will always be available, we recommend keeping a separate copy of content you save to Memories.
Your Account, paragraph 4 · Citation strength: strong
Gotchas
These are the policies that describe surprising, unexpected, or otherwise notable terms that could be considered unfavorable to the user. This section may also include policies that are standard but are important for general user awareness.
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You are responsible for any mobile charges incurred while using the Services, including data and messaging fees.
You are responsible for any mobile charges incurred from using the Services, including data charges and charges for messaging like SMS or MMS.
Why it matters: You will pay for any data or messaging costs that arise from using Snap's services.
You are responsible for any mobile charges that you may incur for using our Services. This includes data charges and charges for messaging, such as SMS, MMS, or other messaging protocols or technologies (collectively, “Messages”).
Data Charges and Mobile Phones, paragraph 1 · Citation strength: strong
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If you fail to update your phone number, Snap may send messages intended for you to someone else.
If you change or deactivate your mobile phone number used for an account, you must update your account information within 72 hours to prevent Snap from sending your messages to someone else.
Why it matters: Failure to update your mobile number within 72 hours of changing it could result in your messages being sent to a new phone owner.
If you change or deactivate the mobile phone number that you used to create an account, you must update your account information through Settings within 72 hours to prevent us from sending messages intended for you to someone else.
Data Charges and Mobile Phones, paragraph 3 · Citation strength: strong
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Snap can make changes to the services and terms without always notifying you.
Snap may add or remove features, products, or functionalities, and may suspend or stop the Services altogether at any time for any reason, potentially without prior notice. While significant changes to the Terms will involve reasonable advance notice, other changes to Services or Terms may not be individually notified.
Why it matters: Snap may change its services or terms without always telling you beforehand, which could result in unexpected alterations to your user experience.
We’re relentlessly improving our Services and creating new ones all the time. That means we may add or remove features, products, or functionalities, and we may also suspend or stop the Services altogether. We may take any of these actions at any time for any reason, and when we do, we may not provide you with any notice beforehand.
Modifying the Services and These Terms, paragraph 1 · Citation strength: strong
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