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This license grant permits Hinge to utilize user-generated content and imported profile information across its operations, including for service delivery, platform functionality, and potential distribution to third parties through sub-licensing arrangements, without obligation to pay royalties or seek ongoing permission for specific uses.
Users authorize Hinge to process and repurpose their content and imported profile data under a broad license that extends to derivative uses, republication, and third-party sub-licensing. The perpetual nature means this authorization continues beyond account termination.
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"By creating an account, you grant to Hinge a worldwide, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, right and license to host, store, use, copy, display, reproduce, adapt, edit, publish, modify and distribute information you authorize us to access from third parties such as Facebook, Google, as well as any information you post, upload, display or otherwise make available (collectively, "post") on our Services or transmit to other members (collectively, "Content").— Excerpt from Hinge's Hinge Terms of Service
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This license grant permits Hinge to utilize user-generated content and imported profile information across its operations, including for service delivery, platform functionality, and potential distribution to third parties through sub-licensing arrangements, without obligation to pay royalties or seek ongoing permission for specific uses.
Users authorize Hinge to process and repurpose their content and imported profile data under a broad license that extends to derivative uses, republication, and third-party sub-licensing. The perpetual nature means this authorization continues beyond account termination.
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