By posting content on Poshmark, users grant the company a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, modify, distribute, and sublicense that content for operating the service and for promotional and marketing purposes across any medium, including third-party platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. This license does not expire upon account closure.
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This provision establishes that Poshmark and its affiliates retain ongoing rights to user-posted content for marketing and promotional purposes indefinitely, including after account deletion, across any current or future medium or technology. Compliance and legal teams should evaluate whether this perpetual license interacts with data subject deletion rights asserted under the CCPA or GDPR, as the tension between intellectual property licensing and privacy deletion rights may require jurisdiction-specific legal analysis.
Interpretive note: The interaction between a perpetual irrevocable content license and data subject deletion rights under GDPR or CCPA is legally unsettled and may vary by jurisdiction.
The updated policy establishes new restrictions on product categories previously allowed or unregulated, including prohibitions on used socks and underwear, mystery boxes with specific disclosure requirements, and strict conditions for cosmetics and electronics. Sellers who list prohibited items may face temporary or permanent account suspension, payment withholding, and item removal at Poshmark's discretion. The policy explicitly reserves the right to dispose or destroy prohibited items sent to authentication centers. You can report suspected violations to Poshmark, but enforcement decisions remain within the company's sole discretion.
View change record →Poshmark's updated Privacy Policy provides significantly more transparent disclosure about what personal data the company collects, how it uses that data, and how you can exercise your privacy rights. The policy now explicitly itemizes data collection points, including photos, videos, payment information, social media accounts, and user interaction data, and provides a dedicated section on consumer rights and choices. The policy also includes a dedicated California Privacy Notice supplement, indicating enhanced compliance with California privacy laws. You can review the full updated policy and California Privacy Notice to understand Poshmark's specific data practices and identify which privacy rights and choices are available to you.
View change record →Poshmark's updated privacy policy provides more explicit detail about what categories of personal data the company collects through the platform, including user-generated content (photos, videos, listings), interaction data (likes, comments, offers), and payment information. The expanded disclosure does not necessarily indicate new data collection practices, but gives users clearer visibility into what information Poshmark holds. You can review the full policy at Poshmark's website to understand which data collection practices apply to your account activity and, if you are a California resident, consult the supplementary California Privacy Notice referenced in the policy.
View change record →Poshmark now claims perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable rights to all user-generated content including listings and photos, granting them broad commercial exploitation rights beyond platform operation.
View full change record →Under this clause, content posted by users, including listing descriptions, photographs, and other materials, is licensed to Poshmark on a permanent, irrevocable basis for promotional use across third-party platforms. The agreement does not provide a mechanism for users to revoke this license upon account closure.
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Compare across platforms →"By Posting any User Content, you hereby grant to Poshmark and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, transmit, perform, distribute, store, modify, make derivative works of, and otherwise use in any manner, as determined by Poshmark, your User Content in connection with (i) the operation of the Service or any other products or services of Poshmark or (ii) the promotion, advertising or marketing thereof, in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed, including publishing your User Content on the internet or Third Party Services (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, blogs, etc.) and allowing other Users to share listings that include your User Content.Excerpt from Poshmark's Privacy Policy
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This provision establishes that Poshmark and its affiliates retain ongoing rights to user-posted content for marketing and promotional purposes indefinitely, including after account deletion, across any current or future medium or technology. Compliance and legal teams should evaluate whether this perpetual license interacts with data subject deletion rights asserted under the CCPA or GDPR, as the tension between intellectual property …
Under this clause, content posted by users, including listing descriptions, photographs, and other materials, is licensed to Poshmark on a permanent, irrevocable basis for promotional use across third-party platforms. The agreement does not provide a mechanism for users to revoke this license upon account closure.
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