When you submit or upload content to Fitbit's services, you grant Fitbit a broad license to use, reproduce, modify, and distribute that content for the purposes of operating and improving their services.
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This clause establishes Fitbit's operational rights to process and repurpose user-generated content across multiple formats and distribution channels without requiring additional compensation or per-use authorization. The transferability and sublicensability provisions permit Fitbit to authorize third parties to exercise these same rights over the licensed content.
Users effectively grant Fitbit ongoing rights to their uploaded content and associated data, which may be used in ways not immediately obvious at the time of upload. This has particular significance for sensitive health and biometric data submitted through the platform.
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"By making Your Content available on or through the Fitbit Service you hereby grant to Fitbit a non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, copy, modify, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, translate, create derivative works from, and distribute Your Content, in whole or in part, including your name and likeness, in any media.Excerpt from Fitbit's Terms of Service
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This clause establishes Fitbit's operational rights to process and repurpose user-generated content across multiple formats and distribution channels without requiring additional compensation or per-use authorization. The transferability and sublicensability provisions permit Fitbit to authorize third parties to exercise these same rights over the licensed content.
Users effectively grant Fitbit ongoing rights to their uploaded content and associated data, which may be used in ways not immediately obvious at the time of upload. This has particular significance for sensitive health and biometric data submitted through the platform.
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