Inference/Model host · huggingface.coHugging Face
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Policy benchmark
rubric v1.0 — how this is scoredBased on 89 verified, verbatim-cited findings below — read the citations.
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Blocked core document: Privacy Policy
- Privacy PolicyCapture blocked - document not publicly capturable
- Terms of ServiceVerified - read in full - 0 citationsstaticLast captured 2026-08-31
Clause intelligence
Canonical clauses and stance patterns extracted from the same gate-verified citations shown on this page.
The clause grants a broad content license.
“Nothing in these Terms is intended to limit our use of our knowledge , skills, experience, ideas, concepts, know-how and/or techniques developed or learned at any time, without limitation. If you provide us feedback regarding the use, operation, performance, or functionality of our Website, Services, or business (collectively, " Feedback "), you hereby grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, an...”Open source citation
The clause grants a broad content license.
“Nothing in these Terms is intended to limit our use of our knowledge , skills, experience, ideas, concepts, know-how and/or techniques developed or learned at any time, without limitation. If you provide us feedback regarding the use, operation, performance, or functionality of our Website, Services, or business (collectively, " Feedback "), you hereby grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, an...”Open source citation
The clause grants a broad content license.
“**Nothing** in these Terms is intended to **limit** our use of **our** **knowledge**, skills, experience, ideas, concepts, know-how and/or techniques developed or learned at any time, without limitation. If you provide us feedback regarding the use, operation, performance, or functionality of our Website, Services, or business (collectively, " **Feedback**"), you hereby grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide...”Open source citation
The clause grants a broad content license.
“**Nothing** in these Terms is intended to **limit** our use of **our** **knowledge**, skills, experience, ideas, concepts, know-how and/or techniques developed or learned at any time, without limitation. If you provide us feedback regarding the use, operation, performance, or functionality of our Website, Services, or business (collectively, " **Feedback**"), you hereby grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide...”Open source citation
The clause appears to reserve or claim ownership rights for the platform.
“We may do the same, and we reserve the right to suspend or terminate your access to the Services anytime with or without cause, and at our own discretion, with or without notice.”Open source citation
Tier matrix
Plan-level conditions detected from citation-backed clauses. Empty tiers mean AIRIN has not captured decisive tier language yet.
| Tier | Surface | Verdict | Risk | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All applicable tiers | data retention | worsens | HIGH | 4 |
| All applicable tiers | indemnity liability | conditional | MEDIUM | 4 |
| All applicable tiers | moderation enforcement | worsens | HIGH | 2 |
| All applicable tiers | output ownership | improves | LOW | 4 |
| All applicable tiers | subprocessors data sharing | conditional | MEDIUM | 4 |
| All applicable tiers | training use | worsens | HIGH | 4 |
| Free | indemnity liability | conditional | MEDIUM | 4 |
| Pro / Paid | training use | worsens | HIGH | 4 |
| Standard | subprocessors data sharing | conditional | MEDIUM | 4 |
| Team / Business | commercial use | conditional | MEDIUM | 4 |
Policy evolution
Open full timelineBefore/after stance changes across captured policy versions. When no material delta exists yet, AIRIN shows the latest citation-backed stance events instead.
Latest stance: broad license on commercial use
“Nothing in these Terms is intended to limit our use of our knowledge , skills, experience, ideas, concepts, know-how and/or techniques developed or learned at any time, without limitation. If you provide us feedback regarding the use, operation, performance, or functionality of our Website, Services, or business (collectively, " Feedback "), you hereby grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive right and license to exploit and commercialize the Feedback, improve the Services, and develop and/or commercialize new offerings, which we will solely and exclusively own. In addition and subject to our Privacy Policy, we may aggregate , anonymize, or otherwise learn from data relating to your use of the Services, and use the foregoing to improve those Services.”Open timeline citation
Latest stance: liability limited on indemnity liability
“We further disclaim all warranties or guarantees about the accuracy, reliability or benefits of any Services, artificial intelligence, Models or any other technology or Content, or that the Services or Content will meet your requirements, be secure, uninterrupted or available at any time or location, or error-free, viruses-free, or that any errors will be corrected, or otherwise.”Open timeline citation
Latest stance: liability limited on indemnity liability
“Survival . The termination or expiration of these Terms shall not relieve from any obligation (i) that may have arisen prior to such termination or expiration, or (ii) that needs to survive termination or expiration in order to give full effect to its meaning, including without limitation payment obligations, confidentiality obligations, limitation of liability, warranty disclaimers, indemnities, governing law and dispute resolution, miscellaneous, and definitions.”Open timeline citation
Latest stance: platform claims or reserves rights on moderation enforcement
“We may do the same, and we reserve the right to suspend or terminate your access to the Services anytime with or without cause, and at our own discretion, with or without notice.”Open timeline citation
Latest stance: platform claims or reserves rights on data retention
“Proprietary Rights . We retain ownership of all of our intellectual property rights related to the Website and the Services, including all improvements to the Services. All materials that we produce, including the Website, design, code, graphics, interfaces, trademarks, and logo shall remain our exclusive property. You may not alter, reproduce, republish, license any of our proprietary materials, unless we expressly give you a written permission to do so. All rights not expressly granted are reserved and retained by us.”Open timeline citation
Latest stance: training permitted on training use
“AutoTrain premium Service : create state of the art Models from your own training data, everything being automatically hosted privately on the Model Hub. You can then share them publicly and/or serve them through the Inference Providers Service for example.”Open timeline citation
Latest stance: training permitted on training use
“" Dataset " refers to a structured collection of data samples used to train machine learning Models.”Open timeline citation
Latest stance: third party or vendor sharing on subprocessors data sharing
“🔒Security is very important to us, and we need every member of our community to cooperate. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality and security of your password necessary for accessing your Account and the Services. You may not disclose your password to any third party, and you are solely responsible for any action taken with your Account. You must notify us immediately of any actual or suspected breach of security on your Account, loss or compromise of password, or unauthorized use of your Account.”Open timeline citation
Capture recency
- Privacy Policy:Last captured 2026-07-20
- Terms of Service:Last captured 2026-08-31· verified 2026-08-31
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219 findings first captured First scan: June 2026.
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