Spotify
Spotify Terms of Use, Privacy Policy & Related Agreements
Spotify is a music and podcast streaming service that lets users listen to audio content, including music, podcasts, and audiobooks, on demand across devices.
Analyzed May 21, 2026
Key findings
Summary
Spotify's terms are largely standard for a major streaming platform: broad content licenses, standard data collection with tailored advertising, and a mandatory arbitration clause with class action waiver. Some protective features exist, including an arbitration opt-out and small claims carve-out, but data collection is extensive and advertising-related sharing applies without a clear opt-out from collection itself.
Category Breakdown
Spotify collects extensive usage, technical, location, and optional sensitive data (voice, precise location, age-check biometric data) with some opt-in controls but broad default collection.
From: SPOTIFY PRIVACY POLICYVoice Data If voice features are available in your market and you've chosen to use a voice feature, we collect and process voice data. Voice data means audio recordings of your voice.View source document
Spotify shares usage and registration data with advertising partners for tailored/cross-context behavioral advertising, which some state laws define as 'sharing or selling,' with opt-out available but not opt-in.
From: SPOTIFY PRIVACY POLICYThis is also known as interest based advertising, targeted advertising, or what some states may define as, ‘sharing or selling’ for purposes of cross-context behavioural advertising.View source document
Users retain ownership of User Content but grant Spotify a broad, irrevocable, sublicensable, worldwide license to use it in connection with the Service, including moral rights waivers.
From: TERMS OF SERVICEyou hereby grant to Spotify a non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free, fully paid, irrevocable, worldwide license to reproduce, make available, perform and display, translate, modify, create derivative works from, distribute, and otherwise use any such User Content through any medium...View source document
Spotify may suspend or terminate access for breach, legal compliance, or business reasons, generally without refund for amounts already paid, though paid subscription terminations by Spotify require 14 days' notice.
From: TERMS OF SERVICESpotify may terminate these Terms (including any additional terms and conditions incorporated herein) or suspend your access to the Spotify Service at any time if we believe you have breached any of these Terms, if we stop providing the Spotify Service or any material component thereof, or as we believe necessary to comply with applicable law.View source document
Mandatory individual arbitration with class action waiver and jury trial waiver applies, but includes a small claims court carveout and an opt-out mechanism for material changes to the arbitration agreement, plus court venue (New York) for IP disputes.
From: TERMS OF SERVICEany Dispute between you and Spotify (whether based in contract, tort, statute, fraud, misrepresentation, or any other legal theory, and whether the claims arise during or after the termination of these Terms) will be determined by binding individual (not class) arbitration.View source document
Paid Subscriptions auto-renew indefinitely until cancelled, with no refunds or credits for partial periods except as expressly stated, though cancellation is disclosed as straightforward through account settings.
From: TERMS OF SERVICEUnless otherwise required by law, we do not provide refunds or credits for any partial subscription periods, except as expressly stated in these Terms.View source document