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The provision establishes Snapchat's operational rights over user content across all core business functions, including service delivery, product development, and research activities. This licensing structure allows the company to incorporate user-generated content into both current and future service offerings without requiring per-use authorization or royalty payments.
Interpretive note: The precise scope of 'modify, adapt, edit' rights and whether 'researching and developing new ones' encompasses AI model training is not fully clarified in the document text.
The updated terms state that Snapchat may now require age verification before you use the Services, expanding on prior language that only referenced minimum age requirements. The terms also revise content moderation procedures, stating that Snap's decision to restrict, suspend, or terminate accounts is made in its sole discretion, though expanded appeal and complaint procedures are now described in more detail through the Snapchat Moderation, Enforcement, and Appeals Explainer and Support Site. The terms also add references to jurisdiction-specific online platform safety laws and direct users to the Transparency Hub for information on how Snap complies with those laws where applicable. You can review appeal options and compliance procedures through the resources linked in the Terms, and you may be able to challenge account restrictions if you believe they violate applicable law in your jurisdiction.
View change record →Users who post content on Snapchat grant the company broad rights to use, modify, and repurpose that content across its service ecosystem. The license applies to content for the stated purposes of service operations, improvement, and development of new services, and continues for the duration the content remains on the platform.
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Where the law allows us to, we may use the content you and other users have posted for training or to help us to improve the way we filter content on our platform.
In accordance with applicable legal requirements, we may use your information to tailor and provide you with content and advertisements.
We may use your personal data to personalize your experience interacting with Content, including what Content we recommend, show, or don't show to you.
"By posting or otherwise making available any content on or through the Services, you grant Snap a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to host, store, cache, use, display, reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, publish, analyze, transmit, and distribute that content. This license is for the limited purpose of operating, developing, providing, promoting, and improving the Services and researching and developing new ones.Excerpt from Snapchat's Terms of Service
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The provision establishes Snapchat's operational rights over user content across all core business functions, including service delivery, product development, and research activities. This licensing structure allows the company to incorporate user-generated content into both current and future service offerings without requiring per-use authorization or royalty payments.
Users who post content on Snapchat grant the company broad rights to use, modify, and repurpose that content across its service ecosystem. The license applies to content for the stated purposes of service operations, improvement, and development of new services, and continues for the duration the content remains on the platform.
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