Uploading any content to Bumble automatically grants the company a perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that content in a broad range of ways, including editing, adapting, creating derivative works, advertising, and distributing it, in any current or future format. This license may be assigned or sub-licensed to Bumble's affiliates and successors without additional user consent.
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This provision establishes a broad content license that is perpetual in duration and worldwide in geographic scope, covering derivative works creation, advertising use, and distribution in any format or medium currently known or developed in the future. The sub-licensing right to affiliates and successors without further approval by the user is an operationally significant aspect of this clause.
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 →The license scope was narrowed by specifying the audience as "other users" instead of the unrestricted "general public."
View full change record →Provision renamed from 'Perpetual Royalty-Free Content License' to 'Perpetual Worldwide Content License' with added explicit language about user warranty of rights and detailed scope of license grant.
View full change record →The agreement states that any content uploaded to the app is subject to a perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide license allowing Bumble to edit, adapt, distribute, advertise with, and create derivative works from that content in any format, including formats not yet developed. The license may be transferred to affiliates and successors without requiring additional consent from the user.
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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 (other users of the App when they are using the App) 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
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: For EU-resident users, this provision requires evaluation under GDPR, particularly regarding lawful basis for processing under Article 6 and the interaction between a contractual content license and the user's rights to erasure (Article 17) and data portability (Article 20). The scope of the license, including advertising use and derivative works creation, may engage questions about whether the license constitutes processing of personal data under GDPR and whether consent obtained at account creation is sufficiently specific. The FTC Act is relevant to whether the disclosure of advertising use of user content meets unfair or deceptive practices standards. GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: High. The license is stated as perpetual and extends to derivative works, advertising, and future formats, with sub-licensing rights to affiliates and successors without user approval. This scope, particularly for a dating platform where content may include sensitive personal images and information, creates governance exposure regarding the intersection of intellectual property rights and data protection obligations. The perpetual nature of the license may interact with account deletion provisions in the document, which note that content removal may not be immediate after account deletion. JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU and UK users have data protection rights that may constrain how a perpetual content license operates in practice; specifically, rights to erasure and restriction of processing under GDPR may conflict with a contractually asserted perpetual license. California users may have additional rights under CCPA regarding the use of personal information in advertising contexts. The sub-licensing to affiliates and successors may require updated disclosure or consent mechanisms in jurisdictions with heightened consent requirements. CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: The sub-licensing right to affiliates and successors without further user approval is an operational risk factor for due diligence in corporate transactions involving Bumble Group entities. Acquirers and merger parties should assess whether user-uploaded content licenses transfer under this clause and whether that transfer triggers notification or consent obligations in applicable jurisdictions. Vendor agreements involving content processing should account for the scope of this license. COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Compliance teams should evaluate whether the advertising use component of this content license is adequately disclosed at the point of content upload for GDPR and CCPA purposes. Data mapping exercises should account for user-uploaded content as a category of personal data subject to this license. The interaction between the perpetual license and the account deletion workflow, including the document's acknowledgment that content removal may take time after deletion, warrants review for GDPR Article 17 compliance.
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This provision establishes a broad content license that is perpetual in duration and worldwide in geographic scope, covering derivative works creation, advertising use, and distribution in any format or medium currently known or developed in the future. The sub-licensing right to affiliates and successors without further approval by the user is an operationally significant aspect of this clause.
The agreement states that any content uploaded to the app is subject to a perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide license allowing Bumble to edit, adapt, distribute, advertise with, and create derivative works from that content in any format, including formats not yet developed. The license may be transferred to affiliates and successors without requiring additional consent from the user.
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