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“IN NO EVENT SHALL OUR TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES AND CAUSES OF ACTION EXCEED ONE THOUSAND U.S. DOLLARS (US $1,000).”
“THE CONTENT AS WELL AS THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND...DISNEY+, ESPN, HULU, AND THEIR AFFILIATES...EACH EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY...”
“Your subscription(s) will automatically renew at the end of the disclosed subscription term, unless cancelled in accordance with the instructions for cancellation below.”
“CANCELLATION WILL TAKE EFFECT AT THE END OF THE CURRENT SUBSCRIPTION TERM, FREE TRIAL OR PROMOTION UNLESS OTHERWISE DISCLOSED; YOU WILL BE BILLED FOR ANY REMAINING BILLING PERIODS IN YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TERM.”
“YOU, DISNEY+, ESPN, AND HULU AGREE TO WAIVE CLASS ACTION PROCEDURES. No party will seek to have a dispute heard as a class action or private attorney general action or in any other proceeding in which any party acts or proposes to act in a representative capacity.”
“you will not receive a separate notice that your free trial is about to end or has ended, or that your paid subscription has begun, unless expressly required by statute or regulation...”
This document sets out the rules for using Hulu's streaming service. Your subscription renews automatically, cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period, and Hulu is not required to warn you before a free trial converts to a paid subscription. If something goes wrong, Hulu makes no warranties about its service and your ability to recover money from Hulu is capped at $1,000 total, with any disputes resolved through individual arbitration rather than in court.
Hulu's Terms of Use establish the conditions under which individual users may access its streaming services, granting a limited, personal-use, non-transferable, revocable, non-exclusive, and non-sublicensable license to stream or temporarily download copyrighted content for noncommercial purposes only. Subscriptions automatically renew at the end of each billing term and cancellations take effect at the end of the current term, with no refunds or credits for partial periods except as required by applicable law or granted at Hulu's sole and absolute discretion. Hulu disclaims all express, implied, and statutory warranties and caps its total aggregate liability to any user at US $1,000 across all damages, losses, and causes of action. All disputes are subject to mandatory binding individual arbitration with a class action and representative proceeding waiver, except for claims within small claims court jurisdiction. Use of Hulu's content or services in connection with any AI or machine learning development, training, testing, benchmarking, or validation is expressly prohibited.
As a Hulu user, you receive a revocable, personal-use-only license to stream content that cannot be shared outside your household unless your service tier expressly permits it, and that cannot be used in connection with any AI or machine learning activity. Your subscription renews automatically, you will be billed for all remaining periods in a term after cancellation, and Hulu will not send you a separate advance notice when a free trial is about to end or convert to a paid plan. You have no contractual right to a partial-period refund, Hulu provides no warranties about its content or services, and your total financial recovery from Hulu across all claims is capped at $1,000. If you have a dispute, you must bring it as an individual binding arbitration claim — not as a class or representative action — unless it falls within small claims court jurisdiction. To avoid being charged for a new subscription term, you must cancel following Hulu's cancellation instructions before the current term ends.
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“IN NO EVENT SHALL OUR TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES AND CAUSES OF ACTION EXCEED ONE THOUSAND U.S. DOLLARS (US $1,000).”
“THE CONTENT AS WELL AS THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND...DISNEY+, ESPN, HULU, AND THEIR AFFILIATES...EACH EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY...”
“Your subscription(s) will automatically renew at the end of the disclosed subscription term, unless cancelled in accordance with the instructions for cancellation below.”
“CANCELLATION WILL TAKE EFFECT AT THE END OF THE CURRENT SUBSCRIPTION TERM, FREE TRIAL OR PROMOTION UNLESS OTHERWISE DISCLOSED; YOU WILL BE BILLED FOR ANY REMAINING BILLING PERIODS IN YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TERM.”
“YOU, DISNEY+, ESPN, AND HULU AGREE TO WAIVE CLASS ACTION PROCEDURES. No party will seek to have a dispute heard as a class action or private attorney general action or in any other proceeding in which any party acts or …”
“you will not receive a separate notice that your free trial is about to end or has ended, or that your paid subscription has begun, unless expressly required by statute or regulation...”
“Within the Territory and subject to the terms and conditions in this Agreement, we grant you a limited, personal use, non-transferable, non-assignable, revocable, non-exclusive and non-sublicensable right to...Install and make non-commercial, personal use of the Services; and stream or temporarily …”
“You, on the one hand, and Disney+, ESPN, and/or Hulu, on the other hand, agree to resolve, by binding individual arbitration, all Disputes...except for: (i) any claim within the jurisdiction of a small claims court...”
“EXCEPT AS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE DO NOT REFUND OR CREDIT FOR PARTIALLY USED SUBSCRIPTION TERMS AND/OR BILLING PERIODS, ALTHOUGH WE MAY PROVIDE SUCH REFUNDS OR CREDITS ON A CASE-BY-CASE BASIS IN OUR SOLE AND ABSOLUTE DISCRETION.”
“The Services are provided to individuals for their personal, noncommercial use only. Companies, commercial establishments, associations and other groups may not purchase or use the Services.”
“Unless otherwise permitted by your Service Tier, you may not share your subscription outside of your household.”
“engage in any of the foregoing in connection with any use, creation, development, modification, prompting, fine-tuning, training, testing, benchmarking or validation of any artificial intelligence or machine learning tool, model, system, algorithm...”
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