When you submit content to ZipRecruiter, such as your resume or job posting, you grant the company a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use that content, which continues even after you stop using the platform.
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A perpetual and irrevocable license means ZipRecruiter retains the right to use content you have submitted, including your resume and personal employment history, even after you delete your account or stop using the service.
Interpretive note: The full text of Section 3 was truncated in the provided document; the characterization of the license as perpetual, irrevocable, and royalty-free is inferred from standard industry language referenced in the table of contents and partial document text. The EEA/UK section may contain modified license terms.
Your resume, work history, and other content you submit to ZipRecruiter may continue to be used by the company under this license even after you close your account, which may interact with your right to request deletion of personal data under applicable privacy laws.
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"3. User Content License Grant— Excerpt from ZipRecruiter's ZipRecruiter Terms of Use
1. REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages GDPR Article 17 (right to erasure) and UK GDPR equivalents for EEA/UK users, as well as CCPA/CPRA deletion rights for California residents. A perpetual, irrevocable license claim may be difficult to reconcile with statutory deletion rights: applicable law or regulatory guidance may limit how broadly this license can be asserted when users invoke their right to erasure. The FTC Act's prohibition on unfair or deceptive practices is also relevant if this license is not clearly disclosed at point of data collection. 2. GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: High for EEA/UK users, Medium for U.S. users. The irrevocable and perpetual framing creates direct tension with GDPR and CCPA deletion rights. Courts and regulators have increasingly scrutinized broad content licenses in consumer platforms, particularly where the license extends beyond what is operationally necessary for service delivery. 3. JURISDICTION FLAGS: EEA and UK users face the highest exposure given GDPR's explicit right to erasure framework. California residents have CPRA-enhanced deletion rights that may constrain how this license operates in practice. The document's separate EEA/UK terms section may modify this provision for those users, but the truncated document prevents full assessment of those modifications. 4. CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Employer-clients who submit job postings containing proprietary company information should assess whether this perpetual license affects their intellectual property rights in job advertisement content. Staffing agencies that upload candidate resumes on behalf of job seekers should evaluate whether they have authority to grant this license on the candidate's behalf. 5. COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Data mapping exercises should account for content subject to this license grant separately from other personal data, as deletion requests may not fully extinguish the license as asserted. Privacy notice audits should confirm whether the scope and perpetual nature of this license is adequately disclosed under applicable transparency requirements.
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A perpetual and irrevocable license means ZipRecruiter retains the right to use content you have submitted, including your resume and personal employment history, even after you delete your account or stop using the service.
Your resume, work history, and other content you submit to ZipRecruiter may continue to be used by the company under this license even after you close your account, which may interact with your right to request deletion of personal data under applicable privacy laws.
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