This is Reddit's Terms of Service — the legal agreement that governs everything you do on Reddit, including posting, voting, commenting, and browsing. The most important thing to know is that by posting anything on Reddit, you give Reddit a permanent, royalty-free license to use, copy, modify, and distribute your content in any way they choose, even if you later delete your account. If you disagree with how Reddit handles your content or account, you are required to resolve disputes through individual arbitration rather than a class-action lawsuit — opt out of arbitration within 30 days of accepting the terms by emailing arbitration-opt-out@reddit.com.
This document is Reddit's Terms of Service, governing user access to and use of Reddit's platform, applications, and services, with legal basis rooted in contract formation upon account creation or continued use. Key obligations include users granting Reddit a broad, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, distribute, and create derivative works from all user-submitted content across all media formats and channels. Notably, Reddit asserts the right to change these terms at any time with notice only by posting updates to the site, and continued use constitutes acceptance — a rolling consent mechanism that departs from the more consumer-protective 30-day affirmative opt-in standard increasingly required under EU and some US state frameworks. The ToS engages GDPR (for EU/EEA users), CCPA (California residents), COPPA (users under 13 are prohibited), and the FTC Act Section 5 regarding unfair or deceptive practices; Reddit's mandatory arbitration clause with class action waiver represents a material consumer rights restriction enforced under the Federal Arbitration Act. Compliance teams should note the broad content license, the informal amendment mechanism, the class action waiver, and jurisdictional variations in data rights that require differentiated treatment for EU, UK, and California user populations.
REGULATORY EXPOSURE: This document engages GDPR Art. 6 (lawful basis for processing), Art. 13-14 (transparency obligations), and Art. 17 (right to erasure) for EU/EEA users; CCPA §1798.100 and §1798.…
REGULATORY EXPOSURE: This document engages GDPR Art. 6 (lawful basis for processing), Art. 13-14 (transparency obligations), and Art. 17 (right to erasure) for EU/EEA users; CCPA §1798.100 and §1798.120 for California residents regarding access and opt-out rights; COPPA (16 C.F.R. Part 312) given t…
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