Terms of Use

Walmart · agreement dated September 9, 2026 · Official agreement

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Content & IP Rights · Context

“Content,” “Ideas” and “make available” are defined broadly

“Content” covers merchandise information, reviews, comments, messages, feedback, submissions and other data, images, text and media, including Inputs to generative AI. “Ideas” means ideas, concepts, feedback and know-how you make available. “Make available” includes posting or submitting through any part of the Sites administered by third-party social media platforms such as Facebook or Instagram.

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When we say “Content,” we mean merchandise information, product descriptions, reviews, comments, messages, reviews, communications, feedback, submissions, suggestions, questions, and other information, data, content, and materials
Inputs (as defined in Section 16.J)
we mean ideas, concepts, feedback, and know-how that you make available in connection with the Walmart Sites
including through any part of the Walmart Sites administrated by third-party social media platforms (e.g., Facebook or Instagram)

data: content · data: messages

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Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

No copying, scraping or training AI on Materials without written consent

Without Walmart's express prior written consent, you agree not to reproduce, modify, sell or otherwise exploit the Sites, reverse engineer them (except where law prohibits the restriction), remove proprietary notices, frame or mirror them, systematically download Materials, or use robots, spiders or other devices to scrape or data mine Materials. The list expressly bars using Materials to develop, train or improve any artificial intelligence or machine learning model, tool or technology without that consent.

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Reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, create derivative works of, sell, rent, lease, loan, timeshare, distribute, or otherwise exploit any portion of (or any use of) the Walmart Sites except as expressly authorized in these Terms of Use, without Walmart’s express prior written consent.
Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any portion of the Walmart Sites, except where such restriction is expressly prohibited by applicable law.
Remove any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights notice from the Walmart Sites.
Frame or mirror any portion of the Walmart Sites
Systematically download and store any Materials.
Use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application or other manual or automatic device to retrieve, index, “scrape,” “data mine” or otherwise gather any Materials, or use any Materials to develop, train, or improve any artificial intelligence or machine learning model, tool, or technology

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Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

You are responsible for Content and Ideas you submit and warrant your rights

Content should be written in English. You acknowledge that you are responsible for all Content and Ideas you make available, and represent and warrant that you have authority to grant the rights described and that the Content and its use will not violate the Terms. This includes responsibility for legality, accuracy, appropriateness, originality and your rights.

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Any text in Content should be written in English.
you are responsible for all Content and Ideas you make available in connection with any Walmart Site
you have the authority to grant the rights in such Content and Ideas as set forth in these Terms of Use
you will be responsible for the legality, the accuracy, the appropriateness, the originality, and your rights in any such Content and Ideas

data: content

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Content & IP Rights · Permission or license

You grant Walmart a perpetual, irrevocable license to Content you make available

You grant Walmart a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, unlimited, nonexclusive license to use, reproduce, create derivative works from, modify, publish, edit, translate, distribute, perform and display any Content you make available, in any media or format now known or later developed. You also grant a non-exclusive, worldwide, transferable and sublicensable right to use or otherwise process submitted Content to provide certain features, improve and maintain the Sites, develop new features and services, and for other purposes outlined in the Walmart Customer Privacy Notice.

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You grant to Walmart a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, unlimited, nonexclusive license to use, reproduce, create derivative works from, modify, publish, edit, translate, distribute, perform and display (publicly or otherwise) any Content that you make available, in any media or medium, and in any form, format, or forum now known or hereafter developed.
In submitting Content, you grant Walmart a non-exclusive, worldwide, transferable, and sublicensable right to use or otherwise process Content submitted to provide certain features to you, improve and maintain Walmart Sites, develop new features and services, and other purposes outlined in our Walmart Customer Privacy Notice.

data: content · purpose: service_operation · purpose: research

Not stated here

  • The purposes in the Walmart Customer Privacy Notice were not supplied.

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Content & IP Rights · Permission or license

Walmart may use Content and Ideas for any purpose, sublicense, use your name

Walmart is free, but not required, to use any Content and Ideas for any purpose and may sublicense its rights through multiple tiers. It has no obligation to keep any Content or Idea confidential, pay compensation or respond. You also grant Walmart the right to use any name associated with Content or Ideas you make available, though it need not do so or provide attribution.

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You further agree that Walmart is free, but not required, to use any Content and Ideas for any purpose.
Walmart may sublicense its rights in Content and Ideas through multiple tiers of sublicenses.
Walmart is, and will be, under no obligation (1) to maintain any Content or Idea in confidence; (2) to pay any compensation for any Content or Idea; or (3) to respond to any Content or Idea.
You grant to Walmart the right to use any name associated with any Content or Idea that you make available to Walmart

data: content · data: identifiers

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Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

You warrant Content is yours and must indemnify Walmart for claims over it

You represent and warrant that you own or control all rights to Content you post, that it is accurate, and that its use does not violate the policy or cause injury or harm. You agree to indemnify Walmart for all claims resulting from Content you supply, and the monitoring section repeats that you are solely responsible for Content you make available and must indemnify Walmart for claims resulting from it.

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You represent and warrant that you own, have rights to, or otherwise control all of the rights to the Content that you post; that the Content is accurate; that use of the Content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury or harm to any person or entity; and that you will indemnify Walmart for all claims resulting from Content you supply.
you are solely responsible for any Content you make available, and you agree to indemnify Walmart for all claims resulting from any Content you make available

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Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Content may not be false, unlawful, infringing, obscene, hateful or spam

You agree not to make available Content that is false, fraudulent, inaccurate or misleading; unlawful or tortious; infringing others' rights; obscene or otherwise objectionable; derogatory, defamatory, threatening, harassing or hateful as Walmart determines in its sole discretion; violent; solicitation or spam links without permission; chain letters or pyramid schemes; impersonating others including Walmart; violating any posted policy; or intended to harm or interfere with the Sites or partners.

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is false, fraudulent, inaccurate, or misleading;
violates any local, state, federal, or international laws or is otherwise tortious;
is protected by or would infringe on the rights of others (including Walmart)
is obscene, indecent, pornographic, or otherwise objectionable;
is derogatory, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, slanderous, hateful, or embarrassing to any other person or entity as determined by Walmart in its sole discretion;
victimizes, harasses, degrades, or intimidates an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age or disability;
is violent or threatening, or promotes violence against, or actions that are threatening to, any individual or group;
contains advertisements, solicitations, or spam links to other web sites or individuals, without prior written permission from Walmart;
contains or relates to chain letters or pyramid schemes;
impersonates another business, person, or entity, including Walmart, its related entities, employees, and agents;
violates any policy posted on the Walmart Sites; or
is intended to cause harm, damage, disable, or otherwise interfere with the Walmart Sites or our partners.

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Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Content may not contain your full name or others’ confidential personal data

Content you make available may not contain your full name or any other confidential personally identifiable information of yourself or others.

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contains your full name(s), or any other confidential personally identifiable information of yourself or others;

data: identifiers

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Content & IP Rights · Permission or license

Materials are licensed, not sold; personal non-commercial use and app license

The Sites and Materials and related intellectual property are owned or controlled by or licensed to Walmart, and Materials are licensed, not sold. While you are permitted to use the Sites, you may access, view, download and print Materials for personal, non-commercial use only, keeping proprietary notices, not modifying them and not making them available commercially to third parties. You may install and use the Walmart Apps on a mobile device you own or control under a limited, non-exclusive, revocable, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license for personal, non-commercial use. If you fail to comply you must stop using and uninstall the apps.

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Materials are licensed (not sold) to end users.
you may access, view, download, and print the Materials for your personal, non-commercial use only
we permit you, on a limited, non-exclusive, revocable, non-transferable, non-sublicensable basis, to install and use the Walmart Apps on a mobile device that you own or control, solely for your personal, non-commercial use
If you fail to comply with any of the terms or conditions of these Terms of Use, you must immediately cease using the Walmart Apps and remove (that is, uninstall and delete) the Walmart Apps from your mobile device.

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Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

No transfer of rights; Sites are for personal shopping use only

No license, right, title or interest in the Sites or Materials is transferred to you by using them. You may not reproduce (except as allowed), publish, distribute, modify, sell or exploit the Materials or Sites, and they may be used only as a personal shopping resource. Collecting product listings, descriptions or prices, derivative use, using account information for a third party's benefit, and data mining, robots or similar tools are strictly prohibited.

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No license, right, title, or interest in the Walmart Sites or any Materials is transferred to you as a result of your use of the Walmart Sites or your accessing, viewing, downloading, or printing of the Materials.
The Walmart Sites and Materials may be used only as a personal shopping resource.
Any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of the Walmart Sites or its contents; any downloading, copying, or other use of account information for the benefit of any third party; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools is strictly prohibited.

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Content & IP Rights · Context

Walmart names, logos and trade dress are Walmart trademarks

WALMART, WAL-MART, the WALMART.COM names and logos and other graphics, logos, page headers, button icons, scripts and service names on the Sites are trademarks or trade dress of Walmart in the U.S. and other countries. Other marks belong to their respective owners, who may or may not be affiliated with Walmart.

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WALMART, WAL-MART, the WALMART.COM names and logos, and all other graphics, logos, page headers, button icons, scripts, and service names included in or made available through any of the Walmart Sites are trademarks or trade dress of Walmart in the U.S. and other countries.

Content & IP Rights · Procedure

Copyright infringement claims follow Walmart’s DMCA procedure

Walmart says it respects the intellectual property of others. If you believe your work has been copied on the Sites in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, you are directed to its DMCA Procedure for instructions on how to contact Walmart.

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We respect the intellectual property of others.
please see our DMCA Procedure
constitutes copyright infringement

Not stated here

  • The DMCA Procedure was not supplied.

Content & IP Rights · Permission or license

Photo Center: you keep ownership but waive moral rights and license your photos

Walmart claims no ownership of photos you place in your Digital Photo Center account, but by uploading you waive all moral rights to those images and grant Walmart a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to download, copy, print, display, modify, publish, post, transmit and distribute them for four purposes: displaying photos to people you select, fulfilling orders, improving the service including by using automated systems and algorithms to analyze and customize your photos, and developing new technologies and services for Walmart. Walmart says it will not use or modify photos for other purposes without your express permission.

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Walmart claims no ownership rights to the photos, photo files, albums, projects, captions, or prints (collectively defined as “Photos”), that you place in your Walmart Digital Photo Center Account.
you agree to waive all moral rights to those images
you grant to Walmart a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license
(1) displaying Photos to the people you select; (2) fulfilling orders; (3) improving the Walmart Digital Photo Center service and enabling it to work as designed, including by using automated systems and algorithms to analyze and customize your Photos; and (4) developing new technologies and services for Walmart.
We will not use or modify your Photos for any purposes other than the foregoing without obtaining your express permission.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Use is limited to the four listed purposes unless you give express permission.

data: photos · data: content · purpose: service_operation · purpose: personalization · purpose: research

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Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Photo Center: authorship warranty, copyright releases, no government documents

You warrant that you are the sole author and owner of the Photos or have all required releases or permissions. Walmart may require a signed copyright release for photos identified as copyrighted or that appear to be professional, and returns those images unprinted with instructions. It will not assist in copying state or federal documents such as driver's licenses, passports and social security cards. Third-party software offered through the center is governed by the provider's terms, and Walmart uses commercially reasonable efforts to keep the service available but is not liable for unexpected outages.

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you are the sole author and owner of the Photos, or that you have obtained all required releases or permissions to permit copying, printing, licensing of the Photos
Walmart reserves the right to require that you obtain a signed copyright release form from the photographer or studio for photographs that are signed, stamped, or otherwise identified by any photographer or studio as copyrighted material, or any photograph that appears to have been taken by a professional photographer or studio
Walmart will not assist in the copying of any state or federal document, including but not limited to driver's licenses, passports, and social security cards.
the agreement to use such software will be solely between you and the third party provider
Walmart will not be liable to you for any unexpected outage or disruption of service.

data: photos

Content & IP Rights · Context

Generative AI Outputs are owned by Walmart, though you may use them

Though you have a right to use all Outputs generated by the Generative AI Features, the agreement says the Outputs are owned by Walmart.

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Though you have a right to use all Outputs generated by the Generative AI Features, the Outputs are owned by Walmart.

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