This Content Policy is part of the binding Terms of Service
This Content Policy, with an effective date of April 10, 2025, is incorporated into Hugging Face's Terms of Service, which the Policy describes as a binding agreement between you and Hugging Face. It says it sets out Hugging Face's actions to protect the Community on the Platform and gives information about the Content Hugging Face authorizes to be posted. It tells you to review Hugging Face's other guidelines, policies and documents on the Website, naming the Terms of Service, the Privacy Policy and the Code of Conduct; it describes the Code of Conduct as a general overview of Hugging Face's standards and of how it wishes the community would behave.
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Effective Date: April 10, 2025
We created the following Content Policy to outline our actions to protect our Community on our Platform and to provide important information about the Content we authorize to be posted on our Platform.
This Policy is incorporated into our Terms of Service, which is a binding agreement between you and us.
You should carefully review all of our other guidelines, policies, and documents available on our Website
which gives a general overview and states our standards and how we wish the community would behave
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The Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Code of Conduct are linked but were not supplied with this document, so their contents are not analyzed here.
This Policy does not say whether the Code of Conduct is itself binding; it describes it as an overview of standards and of how Hugging Face wishes the community would behave.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context
Accessing or using the Platform counts as consenting to this Policy and other terms
By accessing or using the Platform, you consent to all of this Policy and to Hugging Face's other policies and terms. If you do not agree with any of them, the Policy asks you not to access or use the Platform.
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By accessing or using our Platform, you consent to all of this Policy and our other policies and terms.
So, if you do not agree with any of those, please do not access or use our Platform.
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The 'other policies and terms' are not listed exhaustively here, and those documents were not supplied with this analysis.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Procedure
Policy changes take effect 10 days after posting; continued use means acceptance
Hugging Face may change or update this Policy from time to time. A change becomes effective 10 days after the updated Policy is posted on the Website, and if you keep using the Platform 10 days after that posting, the Policy treats that as your acceptance of the changes.
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We may change or update this Policy from time to time.
Changes will be effective 10 days following posting the updated Policy on the Website.
If you continue using our Platform 10 days following such posting, that means you accept those changes.
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This Policy mentions only posting the updated Policy on the Website; whether Hugging Face gives any other notice of changes (for example under the Terms of Service) is not stated here.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context
Undefined capitalized terms take their meaning from other Hugging Face documents
Capitalized terms that this Policy uses without defining have the meanings given in the Terms of Service, the Privacy Policy and all other policies on the Website. Terms used here but not defined here, such as 'User' and 'Website', therefore depend on documents that were not supplied with this analysis.
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Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meaning assigned in our [Terms of Service](https://huggingface.co/terms-of-service), [Privacy Policy](https://huggingface.co/privacy), and all other policies available on our Website.
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The Policy does not say which document controls if the Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and other policies define the same term differently.
Because the linked documents were not supplied, the meanings of terms such as 'User' and 'Website' are not verified here.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context
“Community” includes Hugging Face staff; “Hugging Face” may act through others
Community means all Users of the Platform, including Hugging Face personnel. 'Hugging Face' means Hugging Face Inc., which may perform its obligations through its affiliates, directors, subsidiaries, contractors, licensors, officers, agents and/or employees. 'Team' or 'Hugging Face Team' means Hugging Face personnel.
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“Community” refers to all Users of the Hugging Face Platform, including Hugging Face personnel.
“Hugging Face” refers to Hugging Face Inc., which may perform its obligations through its affiliates, directors, subsidiaries, contractors, licensors, officers, agents, and/or employees.
“Team” or “Hugging Face Team” refers to Hugging Face personnel.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · User right or choice
If still unsatisfied, you can use a certified out-of-court dispute body under the DSA
If you remain unsatisfied after complaining, the Policy says that, in accordance with the Digital Services Act, you have the right to approach a certified out-of-court dispute settlement body (it links an EU Commission page about these bodies). Hugging Face commits to participating in that process in good faith, with the aim of reaching a resolution.
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If you remain unsatisfied, and in accordance with the Digital Services Act, you have the right to approach a certified
We commit to participating in this process in good faith, with the aim of reaching a resolution.
Qualifications & exceptions
The right is framed 'in accordance with the Digital Services Act', the EU law the Policy also names in its EU contact section.
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The Policy does not state who is eligible, for example whether users outside the EU can use this route.
Whether an outcome binds either party, and any costs, are not stated; the Digital Services Act itself is not supplied here.
EU authorities contact legal@huggingface.co, in English, including for terrorist-content removal orders
Under a label reading 'For EU residents', the Policy gives a contact for EU Member State authorities, the EU Commission and the European Board for Digital Services, as indicated in the Digital Services Act: legal@huggingface.co, for all communications about the Content Policy and how Hugging Face moderates Content. This is also Hugging Face's point of contact for removal orders related to the Terrorist Content Online Regulation. All communications should be made in English.
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For EU residents
For EU Member State authorities, the EU Commission, and the European Board for Digital Services as indicated in the Digital Services Act: For all communications regarding our Content Policy and how we deal with moderating Content at Hugging Face, please contact us at legal@huggingface.co.
This is also our point of contact for removal orders related to the Terrorist Content Online Regulation.
All communications should be made in English.
Qualifications & exceptions
The address is stated for the named EU authorities, not for individual users.
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The label reads 'For EU residents', but the text beneath it is addressed to EU authorities and gives residents no separate contact; whether EU residents should use legal@huggingface.co or the general safety@huggingface.co address is unclear.
The Digital Services Act and the Terrorist Content Online Regulation are named but not supplied here.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context
Hugging Face SAS in Paris is the EU main establishment, giving France's Arcom authority under the DSA
The Policy names Hugging Face, SAS as its main establishment in the European Union: a French société par actions simplifiée à associé unique registered in the Paris Trade and Companies Register under number 822 168 043, with headquarters at 9 rue des Colonnes, 75002 Paris, France. It says this designation gives authority to the French Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication (Arcom) under the Digital Services Act. The Policy also links a DSA Transparency Report 2025. Elsewhere it defines 'Hugging Face' as Hugging Face Inc., which may perform its obligations through affiliates and subsidiaries.
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The main establishment in the European Union is Hugging Face, SAS, a French société par actions simplifiée à associé unique registered in the Paris Trade and Companies Register under the number 822 168 043, and whose headquarters are located on 9 rue des Colonnes, 75002 Paris, France.
The designation of this main establishment in the European Union gives authority to the French Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication (Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique - Arcom) per the Digital Services Act.
Our DSA Transparency Report 2025 is accessible by clicking
“Hugging Face” refers to Hugging Face Inc., which may perform its obligations through its affiliates, directors, subsidiaries, contractors, licensors, officers, agents, and/or employees.
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The Policy does not explain the relationship between Hugging Face Inc. and Hugging Face, SAS beyond the definition allowing Hugging Face Inc. to act through affiliates and subsidiaries.
The linked DSA Transparency Report 2025 was not supplied, so its contents are not analyzed here.