High, provisions that significantly limit your legal rights, authorize broad data collection, or create material financial exposure. Medium, provisions worth knowing about but with partial protections or limited scope. Low, standard terms with minimal consumer impact.
Higher = more protective of you, the user/customer — a deliberately user-protective lens, not a universal “good vs bad” score. Computed algorithmically from Descript’s cited governance stances; no dimension we haven’t confidently read is ever counted against the score. Free, reproducible, and never purchasable.
The waiver prevents users from pooling resources in class or consolidated proceedings, which are often the only economically viable path for low-value individual claims.
The informal resolution requirement creates a mandatory 30-day waiting period before arbitration can be initiated, and binds the user to arbitration as the dispute resolution mechanism if informal ef…
Users have no procedural protection against account termination; Descript is not required to provide notice, state a reason, or meet any cause threshold before acting.
The cap means that regardless of the magnitude of harm suffered, Descript's maximum financial exposure is either $10.00 or the fees paid — which for free-tier users is exactly $10.00.
The exclusion eliminates the categories of damages most likely to reflect real-world harm from service failures — lost data, lost revenue, and consequential losses — leaving only direct damages poten…
These terms give Descript broad, permanent rights to use content you submit — including to train its AI — unless you opt out. Descript can terminate or suspend your account …
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ConductAtlas tracks 2 Descript documents including terms of service, privacy policy, and other governance documents. Every document is captured daily with cryptographic verification.
Descript has made 0 policy changes in the past 12 months across the documents ConductAtlas tracks.
ConductAtlas has classified 8 provisions across Descript's tracked documents. 3 are rated high severity, 4 medium, and 1 low.
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