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 reframe BeePitched from a collaborative pitch-sharing feature to a standalone content generation and distribution tool under user control. Users are now solely responsible for obtaining permissions, ensuring content legality, and distributing completed pitches themselves. Bumble clarifies it does not host or distribute pitches after generation and retains content only briefly (24 hours post-download, 7 days if not completed) for moderation purposes. Bumble reserves the right to review, refuse to generate, remove, or restrict access to any content that violates the terms or community guidelines, and may suspend access to the feature if misuse is identified.
View change record →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 Terms and Conditions
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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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