User Content License Grant

What it is

When you type or paste text into Grammarly, you give Grammarly a broad, global, and royalty-free right to use, copy, modify, and distribute that content to run and improve its services.

Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

This clause covers any text you submit to Grammarly — including emails, documents, or messages — and authorizes uses that extend to improving Grammarly's AI and product features, not just correcting your writing.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

Any content you submit to Grammarly, including potentially sensitive or proprietary writing, may be used by Grammarly to develop and improve its services and AI under the terms of this license grant. Users who handle confidential business information, legal documents, or personal communications through Grammarly should be aware of this scope.

What you can do

Institutional analysis (Compliance & governance intelligence)

REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision implicates GDPR (particularly lawful basis requirements under Article 6 and, where sensitive data is incidentally submitted, Article 9), CCPA (regarding the use of personal information for business purposes), and FTC Act requirements against unfair or deceptive data practices. The EU AI Act may also be relevant where submitted content is used for training or improving AI models. Enforcement authorities include the relevant EU data protection supervisory authorities, the California Privacy Protection Agency, and the FTC. GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: High. The license is described as worldwide and royalty-free and covers reproduction, modification, adaptation, and creation of derivative works. For organizations whose employees submit confidential, client, or trade secret material through Grammarly, this clause may interact with confidentiality obligations and data minimization requirements under GDPR. The scope of 'improving the Services' is operationally broad and may encompass AI model training, though the document does not specify this explicitly in the excerpt. JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU and EEA users face heightened exposure where the content license is asserted as a lawful basis for processing personal data — GDPR may require a more specific and transparent legal basis than a ToS license grant alone. California users benefit from CCPA rights to know and limit certain uses of personal information. Organizations in regulated sectors (healthcare, legal, financial services) face additional exposure if employees submit sector-regulated content through the service. CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Enterprise procurement teams should determine whether a separate Data Processing Agreement modifies or narrows the scope of this license for organizational accounts. The license as stated does not include explicit restrictions on use of content for purposes unrelated to serving the submitting user, which may present challenges for organizations with strict data handling or confidentiality requirements. Vendor assessments should confirm what technical and contractual controls limit content use. COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Organizations should audit their acceptable use policies and data classification frameworks to assess whether use of Grammarly for sensitive content is permitted. Consent mechanism reviews may be required for EU deployments. Data mapping exercises should account for text submitted through Grammarly as potentially processed by a third-party vendor with a broad content license.

Applicable agencies

Provision details

Other risks in this policy

• Mandatory Individual Arbitration high
• Class Action Waiver high
• Unilateral Modification of Terms medium
• Account Termination and Suspension medium
• Limitation of Liability medium
• Age Restriction and Minors medium