Hugging Face Terms of Service

Hugging Face · agreement dated September 15, 2022 · Official agreement

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Account & Service Control · Context

Definition: an Account is created on the Website and must have a strong password

An 'Account' is the account that the user, or the user's entity, creates on the Website to access, use or purchase the Services. The definition says it must be secured by a strong password; the Account section later makes the user responsible for password security.

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the account that you, or your entity, will create on the Website to access, use or purchase our Services. It must be secured by a strong password!

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Applies to an individual's account and to an entity's (Organization) account.

Not stated here

  • No password strength rule is specified.

Account & Service Control · Context

Definitions: User and Organization

A 'User' is any individual person, company or organization that accesses, receives or uses the Services. An 'Organization' is a workspace representing a legal entity and/or several Users, and one User can belong to multiple Organizations.

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the individual person, company or organization that accesses, receives, or uses the Services
a workspace representing a legal entity and/or several Users. A User can be part of multiple organizations.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Organizations matter for who can see and change private Repositories and for accounts created on behalf of an entity.

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

Account holders must be 13 or older (or a registered entity) and have authority for an Organization

To create an Account for yourself or an Organization you must be a natural person at least 13 years old, or a duly registered legal entity. If you create an Account for an Organization, you represent that you have authority to act for it and to bind it to these Terms.

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you must be a natural person of at least age 13, or a legal entity duly registered.
you represent that you have the authority to act on behalf of your Organization and bind your Organization to these Terms.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Applies to both individual and Organization accounts.

Not stated here

  • No regional variation or parental-consent rule is stated in this passage; other age rules in particular jurisdictions are not addressed here.

Account & Service Control · User right or choice

You may cancel your Account whenever you want

The user may cancel their Account at any time, at their sole discretion.

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You may decide to cancel your Account whenever you want, at your sole discretion.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Fees already paid are described as non-refundable in the Payment section.

Not stated here

  • The cancellation method is not described here.

Account & Service Control · Company practice

Hugging Face may suspend or terminate your access at any time, with or without cause or notice

Hugging Face reserves the right to suspend or terminate the user's access to the Services at any time, with or without cause, at its own discretion, and with or without notice.

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We may do the same, and we reserve the right to suspend or terminate your access to the Services anytime with or without cause, and at our own discretion, with or without notice.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Stated without a notice period, cause requirement or appeal process.
  • For certain Services the causes for termination may instead be specified in the Supplemental Terms or other signed documents.
  • The Payment section says all fees are non-refundable, and no refund on termination by Hugging Face is described here.

Not stated here

  • Whether a user whose access is terminated by Hugging Face receives a refund, data export or deletion is not stated in this passage.