You can only use your Hulu subscription with people who live in your primary home. Hulu can monitor your account usage to detect sharing outside your household and can restrict or cancel your account if it decides you are violating this rule.
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Hulu can unilaterally analyze your viewing data and device usage to determine whether you are complying with the household rule, and can terminate or restrict your account based on that determination without a defined appeal process.
Subscribers who share accounts with family members at different addresses, college students, or others outside their primary residence risk account restriction or termination, with Hulu retaining sole discretion to make that determination based on its own usage analysis.
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"Unless otherwise permitted by your Service Tier, you may not share your subscription outside of your household. "Household" means the collection of devices associated with your primary personal residence that are used by the individuals who reside therein. If you are subscribed to multiple Services, your Household will be determined based on usage across all Services to which you are subscribed... We may, in our sole discretion, analyze the use of your account to determine compliance with this Agreement. If we determine, in our sole discretion, that you have violated this Agreement, we may limit or terminate access to the Service.Excerpt from Hulu's Subscriber Agreement
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The account usage monitoring described in this provision involves collection and analysis of device identifiers, location data, and viewing behavior, which engages the California Privacy Rights Act and the Video Privacy Protection Act.
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Hulu can unilaterally analyze your viewing data and device usage to determine whether you are complying with the household rule, and can terminate or restrict your account based on that determination without a defined appeal process.
Subscribers who share accounts with family members at different addresses, college students, or others outside their primary residence risk account restriction or termination, with Hulu retaining sole discretion to make that determination based on its own usage analysis.
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