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The perpetual and transferable scope of this license means Instacart retains rights to user-uploaded content indefinitely and may assign these rights to other entities, enabling ongoing algorithmic development without time constraints or requirement for future user consent.
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 →Users authorize Instacart to incorporate their uploaded content into machine learning systems and derivative applications in perpetuity. The terms apply as written upon continued service use, meaning this authorization remains active without affirmative renewal or re-consent requirements.
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We may use Materials to provide, maintain, and improve the Services and to develop other products and services, including training our models, unless you opt out of training through your account settings. Even if you opt out, we will use Materials for model training when: (1) you provide Feedback to...
After registration, you may create, upload or transmit files, documents, videos, images, data or information as part of your use of the Service (collectively, "User Content"). This includes any inputs you provide to our AI-powered support tools and outputs generated in response to your inputs. User ...
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, product or other technology ("AI Tool").
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"You grant Instacart a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, transferable, sub licenseable, perpetual license to use, store, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, or distribute any such content, and to use the content to train, test, or otherwise enhance our machine learning algorithms, for the purposes of operating, providing, and improving the Services.— Excerpt from Instacart's Instacart Terms of Service
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The perpetual and transferable scope of this license means Instacart retains rights to user-uploaded content indefinitely and may assign these rights to other entities, enabling ongoing algorithmic development without time constraints or requirement for future user consent.
Users authorize Instacart to incorporate their uploaded content into machine learning systems and derivative applications in perpetuity. The terms apply as written upon continued service use, meaning this authorization remains active without affirmative renewal or re-consent requirements.
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