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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Compare across platforms →"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 …
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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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