This is Spotify's legal agreement that governs how you can use their music and podcast streaming service. By using Spotify, you agree to resolve any disputes through individual arbitration rather than suing in court or joining a class action lawsuit, which limits your legal options if something goes wrong. Spotify also gets a broad, permanent license to use any content you upload, and can change or discontinue features at any time with little obligation to notify you.
Technical Summary
This document constitutes Spotify's Terms of Use (last updated August 26, 2025) governing all users of Spotify's streaming services in the United States, operated by Spotify USA Inc. Key provisions include a mandatory individual arbitration clause with class action waiver, a broad royalty-free worldwide license granted to Spotify over user-uploaded content, unilateral rights to modify or discontinue services without notice or liability, and auto-renewing paid subscription terms with limited refund rights. The agreement also imposes export control compliance obligations on users, sets minimum age requirements (13 with parental consent, 18 independently), and incorporates additional terms by reference including Paid Subscription Terms, User Guidelines, and Platform Rules.
Institutional Analysis
This document engages with FTC consumer protection standards, COPPA (minimum age 13 with parental consent), and EU/UK/US export control and sanctions frameworks including OFAC, EAR, and EU Dual-Use R…
This document engages with FTC consumer protection standards, COPPA (minimum age 13 with parental consent), and EU/UK/US export control and sanctions frameworks including OFAC, EAR, and EU Dual-Use Regulation. The mandatory arbitration and class action waiver provisions present material consumer pr…
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If you have a dispute with Spotify, you must resolve it through private arbitration — not in a regular court — and you cannot join a class action lawsuit with other users. Spotify highlights this in capital letters at the top of the Terms.
When you upload any content to Spotify — playlists, messages, creative material — you give Spotify a permanent, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, modify, distribute, and create derivative works from that content, even after you delete it or close your account.
Your Spotify Premium subscription renews automatically every billing period and your payment method is charged without further notice. Refunds are generally not provided for partial subscription periods.
Spotify can raise your subscription price, and if you continue using the service after the price change takes effect, you are deemed to have accepted the new price automatically.
Spotify can change, suspend, or permanently remove any feature, content, or subscription plan at any time without telling you in advance and without being liable to you for doing so.
By using Spotify, you grant Spotify the right to use your device's processor, storage, and bandwidth to help run the service, and to allow Spotify and its business partners to deliver advertising to you through your device.
You must be at least 18 to agree to these Terms independently, or at least 13 with a parent or guardian's consent. Children under 13 are not permitted to use Spotify.
If you share ideas, suggestions, or feedback with Spotify about their service, Spotify can use your ideas for free, without crediting or compensating you, and without any confidentiality obligation.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York and, to the extent not superseded by arbitration, disputes are handled in New York courts.