By uploading any content to Squarespace, users grant the company a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, and sublicensable license to use, store, reproduce, modify, and distribute that content globally for purposes described as providing, improving, promoting, and protecting the Services. This license survives account termination and does not require compensation to the user.
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This provision establishes a content license that is explicitly perpetual and irrevocable, meaning it continues after account closure or agreement termination. The sublicensable and transferable nature of the license permits Squarespace to extend these rights to third-party hosting providers and potentially other entities acting on its behalf.
Interpretive note: The practical scope of 'promote and protect the Services' as a license purpose limitation is not precisely defined and may require interpretive analysis depending on specific use cases.
This provision establishes that content uploaded to the platform remains licensed to Squarespace on a perpetual and irrevocable basis even after an account is closed, covering a broad set of use rights including modification and creation of derivative works. The agreement limits the stated purpose of this license to providing, improving, promoting, and protecting the Services, though the breadth of those purposes and their application in practice may warrant evaluation.
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Compare across platforms →"When you provide User Content via the Services, you grant Squarespace (including our third party hosting providers acting on our behalf) a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable right and license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works of (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that User Content works better with the Services), communicate, publish, publicly display, publicly perform and distribute User Content for the limited purposes of allowing us to provide, improve, promote and protect the Services.Excerpt from Squarespace's Terms of Service
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision interacts with GDPR Articles 6 and 17 (lawful basis and right to erasure) for EU/EEA users, as the perpetual and irrevocable framing of a contractual content license may conflict with …
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This provision establishes a content license that is explicitly perpetual and irrevocable, meaning it continues after account closure or agreement termination. The sublicensable and transferable nature of the license permits Squarespace to extend these rights to third-party hosting providers and potentially other entities acting on its behalf.
This provision establishes that content uploaded to the platform remains licensed to Squarespace on a perpetual and irrevocable basis even after an account is closed, covering a broad set of use rights including modification and creation of derivative works. The agreement limits the stated purpose of this license to providing, improving, promoting, and protecting the Services, though the breadth of …
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