X Terms of Service

X's Terms of Service govern all use of X's platform, APIs, applications, advertising products, and commerce services, and apply differently depending on whether a user resides inside or outside the EU, EFTA States, and UK. When users post or create content on X, they grant X a worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, and distribute that content for any purpose, including training machine learning and generative AI models, with no additional compensation. For users outside the EU, EFTA States, and UK, disputes are directed to Texas courts under Texas law, with a fallback to binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association if the forum selection clause is unenforceable, and both class action and jury trial rights are waived.

This document comprises X's Terms of Service governing user access to and use of X's websites, APIs, applications, SMS, advertising, commerce services, and related features, structured as a legally binding User Agreement between users and either X Corp. (for users outside the EU, EFTA States, and UK) or X Internet Unlimited Company (for EU, EFTA, and UK users), with an effective date of October 9, 2026. The terms authorize X to grant users a personal, non-assignable, royalty-free license to use the Services while users grant X a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display, and distribute their Content for any purpose, including training machine learning and generative AI models, with no compensation to users beyond continued access to the Services. Notably, the updated terms for non-EU/UK users introduce a mandatory arbitration fallback clause (administered by the American Arbitration Association before a retired federal judge in Tarrant County, Texas) triggered when the primary Texas court forum selection clause is deemed unenforceable, and the updated terms extend class action and jury trial waivers explicitly to disputes involving named corporate affiliates including SpaceXAI, Cursor, and SpaceX entities; the liquidated damages clause specifying $15,000 USD (or EUR 15,000 for EU/UK users) per 1,000,000 posts accessed in any 24-hour period in violation of the Terms is a provision whose enforceability may vary by jurisdiction. The document engages GDPR and the Digital Services Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2065) for EU/EFTA/UK users, the UK Online Safety Act 2023, COPPA (minimum age of 13), and the FTC Act's unfair and deceptive practices framework; EU and UK users retain rights to challenge enforcement decisions via internal complaints processes and, for EU users, out-of-court dispute settlement under the DSA, while applicable law in those jurisdictions may constrain the enforceability of certain liability limitations and the one-year limitations period asserted in the terms.

The agreement establishes that by posting content on X, users grant a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license permitting X to use, adapt, and distribute that content for any purpose including AI and machine learning model training, with no additional compensation beyond platform access. Under these terms, non-EU/UK users are required to resolve disputes in Texas courts or through individual binding arbitration, waiving class action and jury trial participation, and are subject to a one-year limitations period for federal claims. You can challenge enforcement decisions such as content removal or account suspension through X's Help Center appeals process at https://help.x.com/forms/account-access/appeals, and EU users may access out-of-court dispute settlement under the Digital Services Act.