Any content you upload to Instacart — such as photos, reviews, or recipes — can be used by Instacart forever, at no cost to you, to train its AI systems and improve its products.
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The provision establishes that Instacart obtains broad rights to user content for model development and service improvement without compensation or exclusive restriction. The perpetual and transferable nature of the license means these rights continue indefinitely and may be conveyed to other parties.
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View change record →Every photo, review, or recipe you upload to Instacart becomes permanently available for Instacart to use in AI training, at no cost, with no ability for you to revoke that right after the fact — meaning your content contributions have lasting commercial value to Instacart beyond your use of the platform.
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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 Terms of Service
(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: Implicates GDPR Articles 6 (lawful basis), 13 (transparency), and 22 (automated decision-making) for EU/EEA users whose uploaded content is processed for AI training; CCPA/CPRA §1798.100 and §1798.140 regarding sale or sharing of …
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The provision establishes that Instacart obtains broad rights to user content for model development and service improvement without compensation or exclusive restriction. The perpetual and transferable nature of the license means these rights continue indefinitely and may be conveyed to other parties.
Every photo, review, or recipe you upload to Instacart becomes permanently available for Instacart to use in AI training, at no cost, with no ability for you to revoke that right after the fact — meaning your content contributions have lasting commercial value to Instacart beyond your use of the platform.
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