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Users retain ownership of Marketplace reviews but grant RunPod an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, sublicensable, royalty-free license to use, modify, reproduce, distribute, and incorporate reviews into other works in any medium. This license cannot be revoked once a review is submitted.
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This provision grants RunPod a perpetual and irrevocable license to Marketplace reviews that survives any account deletion or termination. The sublicensable-through-multiple-tiers structure permits RunPod to extend these rights to third parties without further consent from the reviewer.
The updated Terms of Service remove previous promotional language including referral bonuses (previously described as $5-$500 random credit bonuses) and product feature descriptions. The revised document now explicitly states it is a legally binding agreement between you and RunPod, Inc., with a last-updated date of March 24, 2026. No new restrictions or obligations are introduced by this change; the restructuring primarily formalizes the legal framework and eliminates marketing content that previously appeared within the terms document.
View change record →Under this clause, reviews submitted to the Marketplace are subject to a perpetual, irrevocable license that permits RunPod and any sublicensees to use, modify, and distribute reviews in any format indefinitely, even if the user later deletes their account.
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"Runpod does not claim ownership of the Reviews you post on the Marketplace. However, you hereby grant Runpod a nonexclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, transferable, sublicensable (through multiple tiers), fully paid-up, royalty-free license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, excerpt, attribute, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display your Reviews (in whole or in part) and to incorporate your Reviews into other works in any format or medium now known or later developed, and to permit others to do so.Excerpt from RunPod's Terms of Service
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The perpetual and irrevocable license structure interacts with GDPR right to erasure provisions for EU users, as the license grant may conflict with a user's request to delete their content. The sublicensable structure means review content may be distributed to third parties, which could engage GDPR data minimization and purpose limitation principles depending on how the reviews are used. GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. For EU-resident users, the irrevocable license may create tension with the GDPR right to erasure if reviews contain personal data. Legal teams should assess whether the irrevocable license clause is compatible with RunPod's GDPR compliance posture as described in the Privacy Policy. JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU/EEA users have GDPR-based rights that may affect the enforceability of irrevocable content licenses where reviews contain personal data. California residents may have CCPA-based deletion rights that interact with this provision. CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Marketplace Vendors whose products are reviewed should note that RunPod may modify, excerpt, or redistribute reviews without their consent or the reviewer's ongoing permission. This provision does not appear to create direct obligations for Vendors but may affect how review content associated with Vendor offerings is used. COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Legal teams advising EU-based users should assess whether the irrevocable license is compatible with GDPR erasure obligations if the review contains personal data. Platform compliance teams should evaluate whether the sublicensing structure requires disclosure to users about potential third-party distribution of review content.
This provision grants RunPod a perpetual and irrevocable license to Marketplace reviews that survives any account deletion or termination. The sublicensable-through-multiple-tiers structure permits RunPod to extend these rights to third parties without further consent from the reviewer.
Under this clause, reviews submitted to the Marketplace are subject to a perpetual, irrevocable license that permits RunPod and any sublicensees to use, modify, and distribute reviews in any format indefinitely, even if the user later deletes their account.
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