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Cookies, device identifiers, and activity details from other websites and apps may be collected to analyze use and target content to your interests on Medium.

If you opt in, Medium matches encrypted address-book contacts

For friend discovery, Medium matches contact names and emails using encrypted identifiers, deletes nonmember identifiers immediately, and deletes all identifiers within 30 days.

This applies only if you use the address book feature and opt in.

You can manage account information through Settings

Medium says you can access, correct, delete, or export account information in Settings, though it may retain some information after account deletion.

Vendors may review your content and messages for AI work

Medium may share submitted or posted material, including messages, with vendors for services that include training, testing, or improving technology such as machine-learning models.

For California residents, Medium says it does not sell personal information

The policy says Medium does not sell personal information, but describes an opt-out right if it engages in sales in the future.

This statement and the related rights appear in the policy’s section for California residents.

Posting gives Medium a broad license to use your content

You keep ownership, but posting gives Medium a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable right to adapt and distribute your content across its services.

Feedback may be used for any purpose without confidentiality

If you send comments, ideas, or suggestions as feedback, Medium may use them for any purpose without an obligation to you and may treat them as nonconfidential.

This applies if you provide feedback such as comments, ideas, or suggestions about the Services.

Medium may suspend or terminate your access without notice

The terms let Medium suspend or terminate your access to the Services with or without notice.

The terms require individual arbitration unless you opt out

Without an opt-out, most disputes must go to individual, binding arbitration rather than court; the terms also waive class proceedings and jury trials, subject to stated exceptions.

The terms give you 30 days from first accepting this section to opt out by email, with your full name and address and a clear statement of intent.

The terms say disputes filed after one year are barred

The terms set a one-year filing limit and say a dispute not filed within that period is permanently barred.

The terms seek to cap most claims at $50 or the amount paid

Where such limits are allowed, Medium excludes several kinds of damages and caps total liability at the greater of $50 or what you paid.

The terms say these limits apply where exclusions or limitations are allowed and do not apply to liability that cannot be limited by law.