Hugging Face limits its financial responsibility to you by excluding liability for lost data, lost profits, or indirect harms caused by using the platform — even if these losses result from Hugging Face's own actions.
Users who experience data loss, security incidents, or business disruption due to Hugging Face platform failures have severely limited legal recourse for recovering lost profits, lost data, or consequential damages — a significant risk for businesses with critical ML infrastructure on the platform.
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Compare across platforms →If Hugging Face loses your data, suffers a security breach, or causes business losses through a service failure, this clause means you may be unable to recover those losses in court beyond a narrow set of direct damages.
(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: Limitation of liability clauses are governed by state contract law (UCC Article 2 and common law) in the U.S., and by Directive 93/13/EEC (Unfair Contract Terms Directive) in the EU, which may render blanket consequential damage exclusions unenforceable against consumers in member states. The EU Product Liability Directive reform (2024) may impose non-waivable liability for AI system failures causing harm. (2)
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