Bumble can suspend or delete your account at any time, for almost any reason including your behavior on other apps, without telling you in advance and without refunding any subscription fees you have paid.
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This clause means you could lose access to a paid subscription immediately without warning and without any financial remedy, and your conduct on unrelated Bumble-affiliated apps could result in termination of your Bumble account.
Interpretive note: The enforceability of the no-refund provision upon company-initiated termination and the cross-app conduct trigger may be limited by applicable state consumer protection law, and enforcement outcomes depend on jurisdiction.
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 →Current version clarifies that termination applies to offline conduct as well and extends to conduct on affiliated apps, with expanded discretionary grounds.
View full change record →If Bumble terminates your account for any reason including conduct on affiliated apps, you lose access to any remaining paid subscription period with no refund, which creates direct financial risk for premium subscribers. The six-month appeal window provides some procedural recourse but does not guarantee reinstatement or refund.
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If we become aware that a child has provided us with personal data without parental consent, we remove such data and terminate the child's account (except where we are required to retain all or a portion of such data for compliance purposes).
Where required by law, which may include in the Province of Québec, we will provide you with written notice of the suspension or deactivation of your account, including the reasons which led us to take such action.
we have adopted a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe the intellectual property rights of others.
"We expressly reserve the right to terminate or suspend your Account without notice (1) for violating these Terms, (2) due to your conduct on the App, or your conduct with other users of the App (including your "offline" conduct), if we, in our sole discretion, determine your conduct was inappropriate or improper, (3) if we or our affiliates, in our or their sole discretion, determine your conduct on other apps operated by our affiliates was inappropriate or improper, or (4) for any reasons whatsoever that we deem, in our sole discretion, justifies termination. If your Account is terminated or suspended, you agree you will not receive a refund for any paid service or features you have already been charged for.Excerpt from Bumble's Terms and Conditions
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This clause means you could lose access to a paid subscription immediately without warning and without any financial remedy, and your conduct on unrelated Bumble-affiliated apps could result in termination of your Bumble account.
If Bumble terminates your account for any reason including conduct on affiliated apps, you lose access to any remaining paid subscription period with no refund, which creates direct financial risk for premium subscribers. The six-month appeal window provides some procedural recourse but does not guarantee reinstatement or refund.
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