When you submit any content to Instacart (such as photos, reviews, or other materials), you grant Instacart a broad license to use that content, including to train AI systems, on a worldwide, royalty-free basis.
This analysis describes what Instacart's agreement states, permits, or reserves. It does not constitute a legal determination about enforceability. Regulatory applicability and practical outcomes may vary by jurisdiction, enforcement context, and individual circumstances. Read our methodology
The terms authorize Instacart to use content you submit for AI model training, which means user-generated content may contribute to machine learning systems beyond its original submission context.
Interpretive note: The scope of what constitutes user-submitted content versus behavioral or transactional data used for AI training is not fully specified in the excerpt available; application to different data categories may vary.
Instacart rewrote its entire Terms of Service, adding 367 new sentences including sections on AI-powered services, updated arbitration procedures, and revised data handling practices. The restructuring makes it harder to compare what changed because the entire document was reorganized.
View change record →User-submitted content such as product photos, reviews, and other materials may be used by Instacart to train AI and machine learning models under this royalty-free, sublicensable license. Users retain ownership of their content but grant Instacart broad rights to use it.
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"By submitting content to the Services, you grant Instacart a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content in connection with operating and improving the Services, including for training AI and machine learning models.Excerpt from Instacart's Terms of Service
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The terms authorize Instacart to use content you submit for AI model training, which means user-generated content may contribute to machine learning systems beyond its original submission context.
User-submitted content such as product photos, reviews, and other materials may be used by Instacart to train AI and machine learning models under this royalty-free, sublicensable license. Users retain ownership of their content but grant Instacart broad rights to use it.
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