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“- If you decide to set your Repository **public**, you **grant each User** a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, display, publish, reproduce, distribute, and make derivative works of your Content through our Services and functionalities;”
Partially verified: Terms of Service assessed · Privacy Policy pending. Everything below comes only from what was read in full.
Watch: Data retention
Start here. These are the highest-risk verified clauses AIRIN found in the platform's own policy text.
Creates an exception to the deletion obligation by reserving the platform's right to retain user information for legal or regulatory compliance, archiving, recovery, backup processes, and pursuant to the Privacy Policy, overriding the deletion commitment in segment 90.
Permits the provider to assign or transfer its rights and obligations without user consent, while restricting the user from assigning or transferring their rights and obligations without obtaining the provider's prior written consent.
Permits Hugging Face to assign or transfer its rights and obligations without prior user consent, while restricting the user from assigning or transferring their rights and obligations without Hugging Face's prior written consent.
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- Hugging Face (Inference)'s training terms are conditional — check the tier, opt-out, and enterprise exceptions before relying on protection.
- Your outputs and prompts are explicitly yours — Hugging Face (Inference)'s terms include affirmatively protective IP language.
- Data handling is conditional — 4 privacy or retention clauses warrant review before using Hugging Face (Inference) at scale.
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How to read this page: Overall risk rates what Hugging Face (Inference)'s own policy terms mean for your prompts, outputs, and data. The benchmark bands below grade those same verified terms relative to peers — a platform in a risky-by-default category can rate HIGH risk and still grade STRONG against its peer set. Both trace to the cited findings.
Partially verified — Terms of Service — Verified (read in full, 168 findings); Privacy Policy — Capture pending. Findings below are from fully-read, verified documents only; remaining core documents are pending capture.
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Blocked core document: Privacy Policy
- Terms of ServiceVerified - read in full - 168 citationsstaticLast captured 2026-08-31
- Privacy PolicyCapture blocked - document not publicly capturable
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User grants the company a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, display, publish, reproduce, distribute, and make derivative works of user content to provide services and as otherwise permitted under the Terms and Privacy Policy, which may include training-related use.
" You hereby grant us a worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license to use, display, publish, reproduce, distribute, and make derivative works of such Content to provide Services and as otherwise permitted under these Terms and our Pri..."
Grants the platform a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, display, publish, reproduce, distribute, and create derivative works of user content for the purpose of providing services and as otherwise permitted under the Terms and Privacy Policy, establishing the operative license for platform use of user content.
"1. You hereby **grant us** a worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license to use, display, publish, reproduce, distribute, and make derivative works of such Content **to provide Services** and as otherwise permitted under these Terms a..."
Grants each user a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, display, publish, reproduce, distribute, and make derivative works of content placed in public repositories through the platform's services and functionalities.
"- If you decide to set your Repository **public**, you **grant each User** a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, display, publish, reproduce, distribute, and make derivative works of your Content t..."
Preserves the provider's right to use its own knowledge, skills, and experience without limitation, and grants the provider a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to exploit and commercialize user-provided Feedback, improve the Services, and develop new offerings.
"**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..."
Defines the AutoTrain premium service, which involves creating models from the user's own training data hosted privately on the Model Hub; this definition directly describes a training-use workflow and the resulting model hosting and sharing permissions.
" 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 Se..."
Grants the platform a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, display, publish, reproduce, distribute, and make derivative works of user content for the purpose of providing services and as otherwise permitted under the Terms and Privacy Policy.
"1. You hereby **grant us** a worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license to use, display, publish, reproduce, distribute, and make derivative works of such Content **to provide Services** and as otherwise permitted under these Terms a..."
Defines 'Services' broadly and clarifies that purchases or sales refer only to a limited right to access and use (not a transfer of ownership, title, or interest), which is a critical restriction on intellectual property transfer and defines the scope of the commercial relationship.
" " Services " refer to the products and/or services we offer or provide, and that you access, use or purchase. Services may include limited licenses or subscriptions to access or use certain offerings in accordance with these Terms, includi..."
This segment defines 'Services' broadly and clarifies that purchases and sales constitute a limited license to access and use (not a transfer of ownership, title, or interest), which is operative in determining the nature of rights granted to users.
"" **Services**" refer to the products and/or services we offer or provide, and that you access, use or purchase. Services may include limited licenses or subscriptions to access or use certain offerings in accordance with these Terms, inclu..."
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" We also reserve the right to retain your information for legal or regulatory compliance, pursuant to standard archiving, recovery, and back-up processes and practices, and pursuant to our Privacy Policy."
Creates an exception to the deletion obligation by reserving the platform's right to retain user information for legal or regulatory compliance, archiving, recovery, backup processes, and pursuant to the Privacy Policy, overriding the deletion commitment in segment 90.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" You hereby grant us a worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license to use, display, publish, reproduce, distribute, and make derivative works of such Content to provide Services and as otherwise permitted under these Terms and our Privacy Policy; and,"
User grants the company a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, display, publish, reproduce, distribute, and make derivative works of user content to provide services and as otherwise permitted under the Terms and Privacy Policy, which may include training-related use.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
"1. You hereby **grant us** a worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license to use, display, publish, reproduce, distribute, and make derivative works of such Content **to provide Services** and as otherwise permitted under these Terms and our Privacy Policy; and,"
Grants the platform a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, display, publish, reproduce, distribute, and create derivative works of user content for the purpose of providing services and as otherwise permitted under the Terms and Privacy Policy, establishing the operative license for platform use of user content.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
"We reserve the right to **adjust our pricing** from time to time and at our sole discretion. In such event, prices will remain fixed during the term of your initial subscription, and adjusted fees will be applicable only after the term of your new subscription."
Reserves the platform's right to adjust pricing at its sole discretion while granting users price stability for the current subscription term, with adjusted fees applying only upon renewal, establishing the pricing modification procedure and its limitations.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" We reserve the right to adjust our pricing from time to time and at our sole discretion. In such event, prices will remain fixed during the term of your initial subscription, and adjusted fees will be applicable only after the term of your new subscription."
Reserves the platform's right to adjust pricing at its sole discretion while establishing that existing subscribers retain fixed pricing during their current term, creating a tiered pricing protection right for current subscribers.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
"You represent and warrant that you have ownership, control, and responsibility for the Content you post or otherwise make available on our Website, or otherwise have the right to do so. Your Content must not be misleading or unlawful, and must not violate any of these Terms, applicable law and regulation, or infringe or misappropriate any rights of any person or entity. We **may remove your Content** at any time, at our sole discretion, if we have a concern about your Content."
Requires users to represent and warrant ownership or right to post content, mandates content comply with terms and law, and grants the platform a unilateral right to remove content at its sole discretion if concerns arise, establishing both user obligations and platform enforcement rights.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
"We also reserve the **right to retain** **your information** for legal or regulatory compliance, pursuant to standard archiving, recovery, and back-up processes and practices, and pursuant to our Privacy Policy."
Reserves the platform's right to retain user information beyond the deletion timeline for legal or regulatory compliance, archiving, recovery, backup processes, and pursuant to the Privacy Policy, creating an exception to the deletion obligation.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" Upon cancellation of your Account, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete your information and Content of your own Repositories, whether public or private, within 90 days. We will not delete the Content that you contributed to other Users' Repositories, or copies made by us or other Users."
Imposes a commercially reasonable efforts obligation on the platform to delete user information and content from owned repositories within 90 days of account cancellation, while explicitly carving out content contributed to other users' repositories or copies made by the platform or other users from that deletion obligation.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
"Upon cancellation of your Account, we will use commercially **reasonable efforts to delete** your information and Content of your own Repositories, whether public or private, within 90 days. We will **not delete the Content that you contributed** to other Users' Repositories, or copies made by us or other Users."
Obligates the platform to use commercially reasonable efforts to delete user information and content from owned repositories within 90 days of account cancellation, while explicitly excluding content contributed to other users' repositories or copies made by the platform or other users from deletion obligations.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
"**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."
Grants the provider a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to exploit and commercialize user Feedback to improve Services and develop new offerings, and preserves the provider's unrestricted right to use its own knowledge and techniques.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" Changes in law or regulation . If there is any change in law or regulation that would materially restrict or prohibit our ability to provide the Services pursuant to these Terms, we may suspend or cancel the Services, or otherwise amend these Terms."
Reserves Hugging Face's right to suspend, cancel, or amend the Services or Terms if a change in law or regulation materially restricts or prohibits its ability to provide the Services.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
"You agree that we will not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Services."
This is a unilateral limitation of liability protecting the platform from claims by users or third parties resulting from any service changes or outages.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" Either Party’s (and each Related Party’s) aggregate liability to the other Party or any third party in any circumstance will not exceed the amount that you paid us during the 12-month period immediately preceding the last claim (or $50 if relating to a free service). This limitation will not apply to (i) either party’s liability from fraud, gross negligence, recklessness, or willful or criminal misconduct, (ii) your liability for infringement of our intellectual property rights, (iii) your liability for breach of the confidentiality section, or (iv) amounts you owe us for the service made available as per your payment obligations."
Caps aggregate liability for both parties and Related Parties to amounts paid in the preceding 12 months (or $50 for free services), while carving out exceptions for fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct, IP infringement, confidentiality breaches, and outstanding service fees.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
"**Either Party’s** (and each Related Party’s) **aggregate liability** to the other Party or any third party in any circumstance will not exceed the amount that you **paid us during the 12-month** period immediately preceding the last claim (or **$50** if relating to a free service). This **limitation will not apply** to **(i)** either party’s liability from fraud, gross negligence, recklessness, or willful or criminal misconduct, **(ii)** your liability for infringement of our intellectual property rights, **(iii)** your liability for breach of the confidentiality section, or **(iv)** amounts you owe us for the service made available as per your payment obligations."
Caps aggregate liability of either party and Related Parties at the amount paid in the preceding 12 months or $50 for free services, with exceptions for fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct, IP infringement, confidentiality breaches, and amounts owed under the Agreement.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
"**Assignment.** We may assign or transfer all or part of our rights and obligations under these Terms to an affiliate, successor or any other entity or person without obtaining your prior written consent. Conversely, **you may not** assign or transfer all or part of your rights and obligations under Terms without obtaining our prior written consent."
Permits the provider to assign or transfer its rights and obligations without user consent, while restricting the user from assigning or transferring their rights and obligations without obtaining the provider's prior written consent.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" Assignment. We may assign or transfer all or part of our rights and obligations under these Terms to an affiliate, successor or any other entity or person without obtaining your prior written consent. Conversely, you may not assign or transfer all or part of your rights and obligations under Terms without obtaining our prior written consent."
Permits Hugging Face to assign or transfer its rights and obligations without prior user consent, while restricting the user from assigning or transferring their rights and obligations without Hugging Face's prior written consent.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
" You represent and warrant that you have ownership, control, and responsibility for the Content you post or otherwise make available on our Website, or otherwise have the right to do so. Your Content must not be misleading or unlawful, and must not violate any of these Terms, applicable law and regulation, or infringe or misappropriate any rights of any person or entity. We may remove your Content at any time, at our sole discretion, if we have a concern about your Content."
Requires the user to represent and warrant ownership or rights over posted content and that content is lawful and non-infringing; also grants the company discretionary right to remove content at any time, establishing an enforcement mechanism.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
"- If you decide to set your Repository **public**, you **grant each User** a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, display, publish, reproduce, distribute, and make derivative works of your Content through our Services and functionalities;"
Grants each user a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, display, publish, reproduce, distribute, and make derivative works of content placed in public repositories through the platform's services and functionalities.
AI-generated interpretation, not legal advice.
Common questions about Hugging Face (Inference)'s policies
- Does Hugging Face (Inference) train its AI models on your data?
- No training on your content by default — based on 8 verified findings from Hugging Face (Inference)'s published policy. Informational only, not legal advice.
- Who owns the content you create with Hugging Face (Inference)?
- You own outputs — with license carve-outs — based on 9 verified findings from Hugging Face (Inference)'s published policy. Informational only, not legal advice.
- Can you use Hugging Face (Inference)'s output commercially?
- Commercial use allowed — based on 3 verified findings from Hugging Face (Inference)'s published policy. Informational only, not legal advice.
Clause detail — protections, your obligations, and coverage
Every clause below is a verbatim quote from Hugging Face (Inference)'s own published policy, read in full and linked to its exact location. Protections and user obligations are reported separately from risk because they are different kinds of clause — an obligation on you is not a risk to your data. Informational only, not legal advice.
✅ Protections found
19 verified clausesClauses in Hugging Face (Inference)'s policies that work in your favour — commitments the platform made to you.
- Confidentiality
“These restrictions on the use or disclosure of Confidential Information shall not apply to any Confidential Information (i) which has been independently developed by the receiving Party, as evidenced by its written records, (ii) which has been lawfully receive…”
Carves out four categories of information from the confidentiality restrictions: independently developed information, lawfully received unrestricted information from third parties, publicly available information not caus…
📍 Terms of Service › “Open-Source Libraries : including Transformers, Datasets and Tokenizers”Jump to exact text → - Confidentiality
“During the **Service Term**, and for at least one **(1) year** thereafter, we expressly agree (i) to maintain the **strict confidentiality** of such Confidential Information, and to refrain from disclosing such Confidential Information to any third party, exce…”
Imposes an obligation on both parties to maintain strict confidentiality of Confidential Information during the Service Term and for at least one year after, restricting disclosure to authorized third parties and limitin…
📍 Terms of Service › “🤐 Confidentiality”Jump to exact text → - Confidentiality
“During the Service Term , and for at least one (1) year thereafter, we expressly agree (i) to maintain the strict confidentiality of such Confidential Information, and to refrain from disclosing such Confidential Information to any third party, except as autho…”
Imposes mutual obligations to maintain strict confidentiality of Confidential Information during the service term and for at least one year after, prohibiting unauthorized third-party disclosure, limiting use to agreemen…
📍 Terms of Service › “Open-Source Libraries : including Transformers, Datasets and Tokenizers”Jump to exact text → - Confidentiality
“Each of us may disclose Confidential Information **only** to our employees, agents or subcontractors **who need it** in order to exercise rights or **perform obligations** under the Agreement, and who are **required to protect it** against unauthorized disclos…”
Restricts disclosure of Confidential Information to only those employees, agents, or subcontractors who need it to perform Agreement obligations, and requires those parties to be bound by equivalent confidentiality prote…
📍 Terms of Service › “🤐 Confidentiality”Jump to exact text → - Confidentiality
“Each of us may disclose Confidential Information only to our employees, agents or subcontractors who need it in order to exercise rights or perform obligations under the Agreement, and who are required to protect it against unauthorized disclosure or use in a…”
Restricts disclosure of Confidential Information to only those employees, agents, or subcontractors who have a need-to-know for exercising rights or performing obligations, and who are bound to protect it at least as str…
📍 Terms of Service › “Open-Source Libraries : including Transformers, Datasets and Tokenizers”Jump to exact text → - Output ownershipattribution requirements
“When Content **contains notice of a reasonable and customary license**, (such as an open source license) such Content is intended to remain **under the terms of such license** when further accessed, distributed, or used. Neither party is permitted to remove re…”
Establishes that content bearing notice of a recognized license (e.g., open source) remains subject to that license when accessed, distributed, or used, and prohibits either party from removing references to such license…
📍 Terms of Service › “💬 Your Content”Jump to exact text →
+ 13 more verified clauses of this kind on this platform, cited in full in the report.
📋 Rules you must follow
8 verified clausesWhat Hugging Face (Inference) requires of YOU. These are your obligations, not risks to your data or IP, so they are cited here and excluded from this platform's risk rating.
- Output ownership
“**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…”
Asserts the provider's exclusive ownership of all intellectual property in the Website and Services including improvements, and restricts users from altering, reproducing, republishing, or licensing proprietary materials…
📍 Terms of Service › “💡 Intellectual Property”Jump to exact text → - Output ownership
“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, t…”
Asserts that the platform retains exclusive ownership of all intellectual property related to the website and services including improvements, materials, design, code, and trademarks, and restricts users from altering, r…
📍 Terms of Service › “Open-Source Libraries : including Transformers, Datasets and Tokenizers”Jump to exact text → - Moderation & enforcement
“🔒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 yo…”
Imposes obligations on users to maintain confidentiality and security of account credentials, prohibits password disclosure to third parties, assigns sole responsibility for account activity to the user, and requires imm…
📍 Terms of Service › “👤 Your Account”Jump to exact text → - Moderation & enforcement
“🔒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 p…”
Imposes security obligations on users, including maintaining confidentiality of passwords, prohibiting disclosure to third parties, assuming sole responsibility for account activity, and immediately notifying the company…
📍 Terms of Service › “Open-Source Libraries : including Transformers, Datasets and Tokenizers”Jump to exact text → - Moderation & enforcement
“**Export Control and Sanctions**. Any Service provided pursuant to these Terms may be subject to export control and sanctions laws of the U.S. and/or other applicable jurisdictions. Therefore, you may only access and use the Service **in compliance** with U.S.…”
Obligates users to access and use the Services only in compliance with applicable U.S. and other export control and sanctions laws and regulations.
📍 Terms of Service › “📃 Miscellaneous”Jump to exact text →
+ 3 more verified clauses of this kind on this platform, cited in full in the report.
What the policies actually cover
9 topics- Arbitration & class-action waiver1 clause
- Damages & liability cap13 clauses
- Indemnity direction8 clauses
- Terms can change at any time3 protective10 clauses
- Deletion rights & post-termination survival4 clauses
- Auto-renewal & cancel window2 clauses
- Feedback ownership1 clause
- Attribution requirements1 protective1 clause
- Conduct restrictions1 obligation1 clause
127 further verified clauses are cited on this page but not yet assigned a topic.
Cross-clause notes
Two verified clauses intersect on the same subject matter: the Terms of Service, Terms of Service › “😔 Termination” addresses how long content is retained, and the Terms of Service, Terms of Service › “📚 A few definitions” addresses use of content in connection with model training or service improvement. Both clauses are in force at the same time — read them together.
The Terms of Service, Terms of Service › “💡 Intellectual Property” describes rights the platform takes in user content, and the Terms of Service, Terms of Service › “Open-Source Libraries : including Transformers, Datasets and Tokenizers” describes disclosure of data to third parties or subprocessors. Both clauses are in force at the same time — read them together.
Automated cross-reference against the published rubric — not legal advice.
Clause intelligence
Canonical clauses and stance patterns extracted from the same gate-verified citations shown on this page.
The clause provides a deletion or time-bounded retention path.
“Upon cancellation of your Account, we will use commercially **reasonable efforts to delete** your information and Content of your own Repositories, whether public or private, within 90 days. We will **not delete the Content that you contributed** to other Users' Repositories, or copies made by us or other Users.”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.
“1. You hereby **grant us** a worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license to use, display, publish, reproduce, distribute, and make derivative works of such Content **to provide Services** and as otherwise permitted under these Terms and our Privacy Policy; and,”Open source citation
The clause grants a broad content license.
“- If you decide to set your Repository **public**, you **grant each User** a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, display, publish, reproduce, distribute, and make derivative works of your Content through our Services and functionalities;”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
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 | improves | LOW | 4 |
| All applicable tiers | governing law disputes | conditional | MEDIUM | 1 |
| All applicable tiers | indemnity liability | conditional | MEDIUM | 7 |
| All applicable tiers | moderation enforcement | worsens | HIGH | 1 |
| All applicable tiers | output ownership | improves | LOW | 3 |
| All applicable tiers | privacy data use | conditional | MEDIUM | 1 |
| All applicable tiers | prompt ownership | worsens | HIGH | 1 |
| All applicable tiers | subprocessors data sharing | conditional | MEDIUM | 3 |
| All applicable tiers | tier differences | worsens | HIGH | 1 |
| All applicable tiers | training use | worsens | HIGH | 3 |
| Enterprise | tier differences | conditional | MEDIUM | 1 |
| Free | indemnity liability | conditional | MEDIUM | 3 |
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.
legal burden changed from medium/indemnity to medium/liability limited.
“In this regard, you agree to **indemnify**, defend and hold harmless **us and Related Parties** from all claims, liability, and expenses, including attorney's fees, arising out or in connection with your **use** of (or inability to use) the Services, including but not limited to your **violation** of these Terms, applicable law or regulation, any Content or data posted or used by you, or any other party's use of any Service with your credentials, unless arising directly from Hugging Face’s fraud, gross negligence, recklessness, or willful or criminal misconduct, provided that we provide you with (i) a prompt written notice of the claim, demand, suit or proceeding, (ii) sole control of the defense and settlement of the claim, demand, suit or proceeding, and (iii) all reasonable assistance and cooperation in connection with the defense and settlement of the claim, at its own expense.”Before citation
“**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.”After citation
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: third party or vendor sharing on subprocessors data sharing
“During the Service Term , and for at least one (1) year thereafter, we expressly agree (i) to maintain the strict confidentiality of such Confidential Information, and to refrain from disclosing such Confidential Information to any third party, except as authorized by the original disclosing party in writing; (ii) to use such Confidential Information only for the purposes of performing its obligations or exercising its rights under this Agreement; and (iii) to use at least a reasonable standard of care in protecting the Confidential Information.”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
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
Capture recency
- Terms of Service:Last captured 2026-08-31· verified 2026-08-31
- Privacy Policy:Last captured 2026-06-07
Dates state when our pipeline captured and verified each document — not when the vendor last changed it. Documents are re-scanned on a recurring cadence; a document verified once says so until a re-scan confirms it again.
↑ 257 more findings this quarter vs last (435 vs 178). First scan: June 2026.
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