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Any content a user posts to UnitedHealthcare's Online Services is subject to a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license that authorizes the company and its sublicensees to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display that content globally in any media, including the right to use the submitting user's name in connection with that content.
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This provision asserts a broad, perpetual, and sublicensable license over user-submitted content with no compensation obligation and no expiration tied to account termination or service discontinuation. The sublicensable nature of the license means third parties designated by the company may also exercise these rights over submitted content.
Under this clause, content submitted by users to the Online Services may be reproduced, modified, distributed, and displayed by the company and its sublicensees worldwide in any media indefinitely, including after account termination. The agreement also authorizes the use of the submitting user's name in connection with that content.
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"If you do post content or submit material to the Online Services, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant the Company a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media; You grant the Company and any of its sublicensees the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content, if they choose.Excerpt from UnitedHealthcare's Terms of Use
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision does not directly implicate HIPAA in the context of content licenses, though if user-submitted content contains protected health information, the intersection with HIPAA's permitted use and disclosure requirements under HHS OCR oversight warrants evaluation. The FTC Act may apply to representations about how user content is handled relative to actual practice. (2) GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. The perpetual and sublicensable nature of the license creates ongoing rights over user-submitted content that survive account closure. The provision requires users to represent and warrant they own or control all rights to submitted content and to indemnify the company for claims arising from that content, which shifts liability to the user. (3) JURISDICTION FLAGS: In jurisdictions with strong personality rights or moral rights protections, the authorization to use a submitter's name in connection with their content may engage additional legal frameworks. California residents may have additional considerations under California personality rights statutes. (4) CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: The sublicensable structure means downstream third parties may acquire rights to user content without additional notice. Procurement and vendor teams should note this when evaluating data handling and content rights in B2B or employer-plan contexts. (5) COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Compliance teams should evaluate whether the scope of this license is disclosed in a manner consistent with applicable consumer protection disclosure standards, and whether any user-submitted content may constitute protected health information subject to HIPAA limitations on use beyond the license grant.
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This provision asserts a broad, perpetual, and sublicensable license over user-submitted content with no compensation obligation and no expiration tied to account termination or service discontinuation. The sublicensable nature of the license means third parties designated by the company may also exercise these rights over submitted content.
Under this clause, content submitted by users to the Online Services may be reproduced, modified, distributed, and displayed by the company and its sublicensees worldwide in any media indefinitely, including after account termination. The agreement also authorizes the use of the submitting user's name in connection with that content.
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