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What Grammarly's terms say

B privacy grade · grammarly.com · Productivity & cloud

Grammarly's terms of service and privacy policy have 37 rated points: 1 serious, 5 bad, 18 worth knowing and 13 good. 24 apply whenever you use the site, signed in or not; 13 only once you have an account.

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Signed in or not

Whenever you use Grammarly

Serious 1

  • Your personal data is used for automated decision-making, profiling or AI training

Bad 5

  • If you offer suggestions to the service, they become the owner of the ideas that you give them

  • Instead of asking directly, this Service will assume your consent to changes of terms merely from your usage

  • Any liability on behalf of the service is only limited to the fees you paid as a user

    Any liability on behalf of the service is only limited to the fees you paid as a user or US $100

  • You waive your right to a class action

  • You are forced into binding arbitration in case of disputes

Worth knowing 11

  • There is a date of the last update of the agreements

  • This service is a subsidiary of Company X

    This service is a subsidiary of Superhuman Platform Inc.

  • This service informs you that its Terms of Service does not apply to third-party services

  • This service does not guarantee that it or the products obtained through it meet your expectations or requirements

  • Invalidity of any portion of the Terms of Service does not entail invalidity of its remainder

  • Failure to enforce any provision of the Terms of Service does not constitute a waiver of such provision

  • Defend, indemnify, hold harmless; survives termination

  • The service is provided 'as is' and to be used at your sole risk

  • No warranty is made regarding an uninterrupted, timely, secure and/or error-free experience

  • The service assumes no liability for any damages the user incurs

  • Instructions are provided on how to submit a copyright claim

Good 7

  • Archives of their agreements are provided so that changes can be viewed over time

  • The service claims to be CCPA compliant for California users

  • When the service wants to make a material change to its terms, you are notified at least 30 days in advance

  • The service claims to be GDPR compliant for European users

  • You can limit how your information is used by third parties and the service

  • You can request access, correction and/or deletion of your data

  • A complaint mechanism is provided for the handling of personal data

With an account

If you have a Grammarly account

Worth knowing 7

  • You must report to the service any unauthorized use of your account or any breach of security

  • You cannot distribute or disclose your account to third parties

  • You must create an account to use this service

  • You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and for the activities on your account

  • Your content can be used by the service provider for all their existing and future services

    This service can use your content for all their existing and future services

    "You grant us a [...] license to your User Content [...] for the limited purposes of: [...]"

  • Banned users are prohibited from creating a new account

  • No refunds will be issued

Good 6

  • You maintain ownership of your content

  • The service has non-exclusive use of your content

  • Your account may be suspended and/or terminated for breaching the Terms of Service

  • You can retrieve an archive of your data

  • You can set guidelines for the use of your personal information after your death

    You can set guidelines for the use of your personal information after your death if you reside in France or Italy

  • You can opt out of receiving promotional communications

The documents

Ratings by ToS;DR volunteers; they can lag behind the current terms. Not legal advice.