Snapchat Terms of Service

This is Snapchat's Terms of Service — the legal contract you agree to when you use Snapchat, Bitmoji, Spectacles, or any other Snap product. Most importantly, when you post content on Snapchat, you give Snap a broad license to use, modify, and share that content, and this license can survive even after you delete your account if others have already shared your content. US users should know they are waiving their right to sue Snapchat in court as part of a class — disputes must go through individual arbitration instead.

This document constitutes Snap Inc.'s Terms of Service governing use of Snapchat and all related Snap services, establishing a contractual relationship under California law (or applicable local law for EEA/UK users) between Snap Inc. (or Snap Group Limited for non-US users) and users who must be at least 13 years of age. The most significant obligations include users granting Snap a broad, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, distribute, and create derivative works from any content they post, and users agreeing to binding arbitration with class action waiver for dispute resolution (US users). Notable provisions that deviate from industry standard include Snap's explicit claim of a perpetual, irrevocable license to user-generated content even after account deletion for content shared with others, and the class action waiver combined with mandatory individual arbitration that substantially limits collective legal recourse for US consumers. The document engages GDPR (for EEA users), UK GDPR, COPPA (age restrictions for under-13s), CCPA (California residents), and FTC Act Section 5 (unfair/deceptive practices); compliance teams should note the dual-entity structure (Snap Inc. vs. Snap Group Limited) which affects jurisdictional data controller obligations and dispute resolution pathways.