Calm
Calm Terms of Service & Privacy Policy
Calm is a meditation, sleep, and mental wellness app offering guided meditations, sleep stories, and related content through a subscription-based mobile and web service.
Analyzed June 20, 2026
Key findings
Summary
Calm's terms are largely standard for a consumer subscription app, with mandatory arbitration (opt-out available), a broad content license over user submissions, and typical auto-renewal billing with no-refund policy. Data collection includes usage, device, and inferred information, and data is shared with advertising partners for targeted ads, with opt-out mechanisms provided.
Category Breakdown
Calm collects account, payment, usage, device, log, and inferred data (e.g., approximate location, gender/age guesses) and integrates with third-party health apps with permission.
From: PRIVACY POLICYDerived information: information about you based on other information we have collected. For example, like most platforms, we use your IP address to derive the approximate location of your device. We may make educated guesses about your gender or age.View source document
Calm shares data with advertising partners who convert contact information into identifiers for cross-platform ad targeting, constituting behavioral advertising sharing under privacy law definitions.
From: PRIVACY POLICYSome of our advertising partners enable us to convert your email address or phone number into an identifier to show ads that are more relevant to you on other platforms.View source document
Users retain ownership of their content but grant Calm a broad, worldwide, transferable, sublicensable license to use, modify, and distribute it in connection with operating and marketing the service.
From: TERMS OF SERVICEyou hereby grant to Calm a non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide, royalty-free, license to use, store, publish, translate, reproduce, adapt, copy, modify, create derivative works based upon, publicly display, publicly perform, and distribute your User Content...in connection with operating, marketing, and providing the Services without compensation to youView source document
Calm may terminate accounts for violations at its sole discretion without notice, though this is triggered by defined causes such as Terms violations.
From: TERMS OF SERVICEWe may terminate your access to and use of the Services or your account if you violate these Terms, in our sole discretion without notice to you and to the extent permitted by applicable law.View source document
Mandatory binding arbitration via JAMS with a class-action waiver, jury waiver, small claims court carveout, and a 30-day written opt-out window; also includes a court venue clause and informal dispute resolution requirement.
From: TERMS OF SERVICEAny dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms...will be settled by binding arbitration, except that each party retains the right: (a) to bring an individual action in small claims court...you have the right to opt out of binding arbitration by providing Calm with written notice...within thirty (30) daysView source document
Recurring subscriptions auto-renew and require cancellation at least 24 hours before renewal; refunds are not provided for fees already paid.
From: TERMS OF SERVICEIf you cancel, you are not entitled to a refund for the fees you already paid, but, subject to these Terms, you will continue to receive access to Calm Premium until the end of your current subscription period.View source document