Found in 28 of 170 platforms tracked (16% adoption) · 34 provisions
Consumers commonly believe they own digital purchases the way they own physical media. In reality, Apple can revoke access to 'purchased' content, and you cannot resell, transfer, or bequeath it.
Developers can lose access to their entire user base and revenue stream based on Apple's unilateral interpretation of guidelines that Apple itself can change at any time, creating significant busines…
Your monthly cost or the features included in your plan can change without your active agreement — simply continuing to use the service is treated as consent.
Consumers may believe they own digital purchases, but Epic retains the right to revoke access to all content, including paid items, leaving users with no property rights over money they have spent.
Users and businesses relying on Hugging Face's platform for production AI workloads have no guaranteed continuity of service and no recourse if services are discontinued.
Users can lose access to services they rely on, or have their accounts suspended, with limited ability to contest the decision or recover their data.
This means there is no independent arbitration or external review built into the process — if PayPal denies your claim, your recourse options are limited to an internal appeal.
Peloton can remove features, change how its products work, or shut down services you paid for without your consent, which has already affected Peloton users in the past.
This means Riot can remove, change, or eliminate your virtual items and currency without compensation, even if you paid real money for them.
Margin trading amplifies both gains and losses, and Robinhood's right to liquidate your positions without prior notice means you could have your entire portfolio sold at an unfavorable price during m…
Robinhood exercised this power during the January 2021 GameStop trading frenzy, halting purchases of GME and other 'meme stocks' at a critical moment, causing financial losses for many users who were…
This provision means Robinhood can sell your investments at any time and at whatever price is available in the market, potentially locking in losses during market downturns, without giving you the op…
Roblox has near-unlimited power to remove your content and block your access to the platform, with no guaranteed right to reinstatement or compensation for lost content or purchases.
For a financial services platform holding your investments and banking funds, the ability to change services — including fee structures — without prior notice creates meaningful financial and operati…
If Stripe decides your business poses a financial risk — even without a court order or formal dispute — it can freeze the money Stripe owes you for payment processing, severely impacting your busines…
Apple's subjective quality standards give it broad discretion to reject apps from competitors or new entrants, and the determination of what constitutes sufficient 'functionality' is made unilaterall…
Google can shut down any service at any time — as it has done with Google+, Stadia, Inbox, and others — and when it does, any data you have stored exclusively in that service may be permanently delet…
This means Ledger can cancel your purchase even after you have paid, which could delay access to a security device you may urgently need, and creates uncertainty about the finality of confirmed order…
Microsoft can alter or shut down services you depend on — including paid subscriptions — with limited recourse for consumers beyond any applicable refund for unused prepaid periods.
Nintendo can use anything you create and submit on their platforms for any purpose, without paying you or asking for further permission, potentially indefinitely.
OpenAI has broad discretion to determine what constitutes a usage policy violation and to act on that determination unilaterally, which could affect users who believe their use is legitimate.
Content you paid to access as part of your subscription may be removed at any time, potentially reducing the value of your subscription without compensation or prior warning.
Households with multiple viewers may find their access restricted during peak viewing times, and upgrading to remove these limits may require purchasing a higher-tier plan.
This is an unusually aggressive provision: most platforms take a license to use feedback, but Redfin takes full legal ownership and requires you to waive your moral rights, meaning you can never recl…
You may pay for a subscription and find that specific content — such as a podcast, album, or feature — has been removed without warning and without any refund obligation (except in the case of comple…
Submitting product ideas or feedback to TikTok permanently transfers any intellectual property rights in those ideas to TikTok, with no obligation to compensate, credit, or even respond to the submit…
Verizon may slow down your internet speeds under certain conditions, which can affect your experience even if you are on an 'unlimited' plan.
If you share a valuable product idea with Wealthfront, you cannot claim ownership, compensation, or credit for it — Wealthfront owns it outright from the moment you submit it.
WhatsApp has broad discretion to determine what constitutes a violation and to act against accounts, which could affect legitimate users if moderation decisions are incorrect.
Any feedback, ideas, or content you share with MetaMask can be used by Consensys without compensation to you and without restriction, which may affect intellectual property rights for developers or b…
If Netflix is acquired or restructures, your account and its terms could be transferred to a new company that you did not choose to do business with.
You do not own any content you watch on Peacock; you are only granted a temporary license to stream it. Peacock can remove content from its library at any time.
Any product ideas or creative suggestions you share with Spotify become their property to use commercially with no obligation to acknowledge, credit, or pay you.
Any suggestions or feature ideas you share with Strava become theirs to use and profit from without compensation, and you waive any intellectual property rights in that feedback.
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