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Creators who rely on Substack as their primary publication and income platform could lose access to their subscribers, content, and revenue stream without warning if Substack decides to terminate their account.
Substack's Terms grant the platform a royalty-free, perpetual, and irrevocable license to modify and distribute your content, which means this license survives account deletion. The mandatory arbitration and class action waiver provisions limit your ability to pursue disputes in court, and the liability cap of $100 or amounts paid in the prior 12 months significantly constrains financial recovery. You can delete your account at any time from your Substack account settings page at https://substack.com/account/settings, though public posts may remain accessible if they were previously copied or stored by other users.
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"Substack is free to terminate (or suspend access to) your use of Substack, or your account, for any reason at our discretion. We will try to provide advance notice to you prior to our terminating your account so that you are able to retrieve any important Posts you may have uploaded to your account, but we may not do so if we determine it would be impractical, illegal, not in the interest of someone's safety or security, or otherwise harmful to the rights or property of Substack.— Excerpt from Substack's Substack Terms of Use
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