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The clause establishes broad operational rights for the platform to exploit user-generated content across all current and future formats and media without compensation or case-by-case consent, reducing operational constraints on content reuse and monetization strategies.
The updated terms state that Bumble's license to use your uploaded content is now limited to distribution to other app users when they are using the app, rather than the previously stated right to make content available to the general public. This represents a narrowing of the company's stated rights over user content. Additionally, the terms now explicitly disclose five scenarios in which Bumble may request account verification: to prevent fake accounts and fraud, to confirm age compliance in certain jurisdictions, to detect unusual account access, to prevent payment fraud, and to enforce community guidelines. The terms also clarify that uninstalling the app does not delete your account, and you must manually follow account deletion steps to permanently remove it.
View change record →Users grant Bumble irrevocable rights to modify, reproduce, and commercially distribute their uploaded content in perpetuity across any medium. Users waive compensation or approval rights over derivative works and third-party licensing of their content.
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"By uploading Your Content on Bumble, you represent and warrant to us that you have all necessary rights and licenses to do so, and automatically grant us a non-exclusive, royalty free, perpetual, worldwide license to use Your Content in any way (including, without limitation, editing, copying, modifying, adapting, translating, reformatting, creating derivative works from, incorporating into other works, advertising, distributing and otherwise making available to the general public such Content, whether in whole or in part and in any format or medium currently known or developed in the future). We may assign and/or sub-license the above license to our affiliates and successors without any further approval by you.— Excerpt from Bumble's Bumble Terms and Conditions
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The clause establishes broad operational rights for the platform to exploit user-generated content across all current and future formats and media without compensation or case-by-case consent, reducing operational constraints on content reuse and monetization strategies.
Users grant Bumble irrevocable rights to modify, reproduce, and commercially distribute their uploaded content in perpetuity across any medium. Users waive compensation or approval rights over derivative works and third-party licensing of their content.
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