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This is the only Quora document type with data — Quora_Community_Guidelines.jsonl and Quora_Privacy_Policy.jsonl are both empty (0 lines) and were skipped. Across 14 scrapes spanning 2022-07-11 to 2025-10-23, this dataset contains only 17 unique snippets despite 482 total records — almost all records are repeat captures of the same small set of clauses. Genuine substantive changes are confirmed on only two dates (2022-09-20 cosmetic, 2023-07-25 substantive).

What this wiki found — complete, every page

AI trainingRoyalty-freeSublicensablePerpetual / irrevocableTransferableDerivative works

Presence facts, not verdicts — each flagged term links to its definition and the exact clause on this page. Absence of a badge means the term isn't currently flagged here, not that the page is risk-free.

Independent reviews, where they had something to say

Quora – Terms of Service

Dataset: PGAv2 (Platform Governance Archive v2) — 25 platforms, 2022–2026

PGAv2 (Platform Governance Archive v2) is this wiki’s legacy dataset: pre-tagged JSONL records covering 25 major social-media, messaging, and content-sharing platforms, with risk scores and keywords assigned via systematic extraction of 1,736 high-risk clauses from each platform’s Terms of Service, Privacy Policies, and Community Guidelines, spanning 2022–2026.

Note: This page contains documented policy clauses. Risk assessment is qualitative and context-dependent. For analysis of patterns across platforms, see:

Source: sources/jsonl/Quora_Terms_of_Service.jsonl Last updated: 2025-10-23

Overview

This is the only Quora document type with data — Quora_Community_Guidelines.jsonl and Quora_Privacy_Policy.jsonl are both empty (0 lines) and were skipped. Across 14 scrapes spanning 2022-07-11 to 2025-10-23, this dataset contains only 17 unique snippets despite 482 total records — almost all records are repeat captures of the same small set of clauses. Genuine substantive changes are confirmed on only two dates (2022-09-20 cosmetic, 2023-07-25 substantive).

Notable finding: Quora’s Content-license clause (present since baseline) explicitly extends to other users — “This license also includes the right for other users of the Quora Platform to use, copy, reproduce, adapt, modify, create derivative works from, publish, transmit, display, and distribute, translate, communicate and make available to the public Your Content.” This is a user-to-user content-reuse grant dated 2022-07-11 — the same baseline date as Pinterest’s equivalent clause, and over two years before TikTok’s more widely-noted 2025-06-25 rewrite (see Pinterest_Terms_of_Service.md and the Royalty-Free concept page for the broader correction). Quora is now the third platform in this wiki confirmed to have a user-to-user Content grant.

Confirmed genuine strengthening of the anti-AI-training clause (2023-07-25): the 2022-07-11 baseline already bans third parties from using “automated tools such as artificial intelligence or machine learning” to create derivative works or competing services from Quora’s content. The 2023-07-25 rewrite replaces this with much more specific, LLM-era language: a ban on using automated means “including artificial intelligence or machine learning” “to train or develop any AI, large language models or machine learning algorithms on Our Content or Materials.” This is one of the most explicit, broadly-scoped anti-AI-training restrictions on third parties in this wiki, with a conditional robots.txt-based crawl exception carved out for search engines only.

Flagged Keywords & Risks

Legal Context & Research Significance

Quora’s 2023-07-25 rewrite — banning third parties from accessing Quora content “through automated or other means, including artificial intelligence or machine learning” “to train or develop any AI, large language models or machine learning algorithms” — is a direct application of the mechanism Atkinson (2025) describes: because the prohibition sits in Quora’s Terms of Service, a scraping bot that traverses pages containing those Terms has actual notice of the restriction, making the restriction legally enforceable against the bot’s deployer even though the accompanying “Permission to Crawl” carve-out depends on the voluntarily-followed robots.txt standard Atkinson calls “a leaky solution.” This restriction-direction clause falls under wearetosed’s “unilateral control” category, since Quora reserves to itself, at its sole discretion, the right to permit or deny AI-training access while imposing the opposite default on everyone else. Quora’s maximal Content-license clause — extended to “other users of the Quora Platform” with no compensation to the original poster — additionally falls under “data sharing & selling,” and exemplifies the provider-favoring pattern Soneji et al. (2025) find in roughly two-thirds of ToS;DR-style clauses.

Changes Summary

DateWhat changed
2022-07-11Baseline version (first scrape in this dataset).
2022-09-20Additional crop-window variant of the AI/automated-tools restriction captured; no confirmed substantive wording change.
2023-07-25Confirmed genuine strengthening: the AI/automated-tools restriction is rewritten to explicitly ban training/developing “any AI, large language models or machine learning algorithms” on Quora’s content, replacing the vaguer 2022 “automated tools such as artificial intelligence or machine learning” language; a new “Permission to Crawl” robots.txt-based carve-out for search engines is added. train AI/models and crawl newly flagged.
2023-11-20No changes from previous version.
2024-01-03No changes from previous version.
2024-01-10No changes from previous version.
2024-05-11No changes from previous version.
2024-05-12No changes from previous version.
2024-05-13No changes from previous version.
2024-05-14No changes from previous version.
2024-05-15No changes from previous version.
2024-05-17No changes from previous version.
2024-05-18No changes from previous version.
2025-10-23No changes from previous version.

Version History

2022-07-11

Clause: artificial intelligence, machine learning, derivative works, create derivative

Except for the rights and license granted in these Terms of Service, we reserve all other rights and grant no other rights or licenses, implied or otherwise. 5. Permitted uses. If you operate a search engine, web crawler, bot, scraping tool, data mining tool, bulk downloading tool, wget utility, or similar data gathering or extraction tool, you may access the Quora Platform, subject to the following additional rules: i) you must use a descriptive user agent header; ii) you must follow robots.txt at all times; iii) your access must not adversely affect any aspect of the Quora Platform’s functioning; and iv) you must make it clear how to contact you, either in your user agent string, or on your website if you have one. You represent and warrant that you will not use any automated tools such as artificial intelligence or machine learning i) to create derivative works of Our Content and Materials; ii) to create any service competitive to the Quora Platform; or iii) for other commercial purposes except as expressly permitted by these Terms of Service or the written consent of Quora. 6. No Endorsement or Verification. Please note that the Quora Platform contains access to third-party content, products and services, and it offers interactions with third parties. Participation or availability on the Quora Platform does not amount to endorsement or verification by us.

Clause: royalty-free, sublicensable, derivative works, create derivative, transferable

You, or your licensors, as applicable, retain ownership of the copyright and other intellectual property in Your Content, subject to the non-exclusive rights granted below. 3. License and Permission to Use Your Content. 1. By submitting, posting, or displaying Your Content on the Quora Platform, you grant Quora and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable (through multiple tiers), license to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, create derivative works from, publish, transmit, store, display and distribute, translate, communicate and make available to the public, and otherwise use Your Content in connection with the operation or use of the Quora Platform or the promotion, advertising or marketing of the Quora Platform or our business partners, in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed), including via means of automated distribution, such as through an application programming interface (also known as an “API”). You agree that this license includes the right for Quora to make Your Content available to other companies, organizations, business partners, or individuals who collaborate with Quora for the syndication, broadcast, communication and making available to the public, distribution or publication of Your Content on the Quora Platform or through other media or distribution methods. This license also includes the right for other users of the Quora Platform to use, copy, reproduce, adapt, modify, create derivative works from, publish, transmit, display, and distribute, translate, communicate and make available to the public Your Content, subject to our Terms of Service. Except as expressly provided in these Terms of Service, this license will not confer the right for you to use automated technology to copy or post questions and answers or to aggregate questions and answers for the purpose of making derivative works. If you do not wish to allow your answers to be translated by other users, you can globally opt out of translation in your profile settings or you can designate certain answers not for translation.

Clause: royalty-free, derivative works, create derivative, assignable

Our License to You. 1. We grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive license to use and access Our Content and Materials and Data as made available to you on the Quora Platform in connection with your use of the Quora Platform, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. 2. Quora gives you a worldwide, royalty-free, revocable, personal, non-assignable and non-exclusive license to re-post a small portion of any answer or post posted by other Quora users anywhere on the web, subject to these Terms and Conditions and provided that: (a) the content in question was added to the Quora Platform after April 22, 2010; (b) the user who created the content has not explicitly marked the content as not for reproduction on the Quora Platform; (c) you do not modify the content; (d) you attribute Quora by name in readable text and with a human and machine-followable link (an HTML anchor tag) linking back to the page displaying the original source of the content on https://quora.com on every page that contains such content; (e) upon request, either by Quora or a user, you remove the user’s name from content which the user has subsequently made anonymous; (f) upon request, either by Quora or by a user who contributed to the content, you make a reasonable effort to update a particular piece of content to the latest version on the Quora Platform; and (g) upon request, either by Quora or by a user who contributed to the content, you make a reasonable attempt to delete content that has been deleted or marked as not for reproduction on the Quora Platform; and (h) you do not use any automated tools to aggregate or create derivative works. In exercising these rights, you may not implicitly or explicitly assert any connection with, sponsorship or endorsement by Quora, or any Quora user, without separate, express prior written permission from us. 3. We may terminate our license to you at any time for any reason. We have the right but not the obligation to refuse to distribute any content on the Quora Platform or to remove content.

Clause: sublicense, irrevocable

However, we may not be able to control removal of the answer from display on syndicated channels or other previously distributed methods outside of https://www.quora.com. Quora may remove suspected spam from your answers. Once you post a question, it may be edited or deleted by other users or by Quora at any time. Any edits and changes made by you may be visible to other users. The right for Quora to copy, display, transmit, publish, perform, distribute, store, modify, and otherwise use any question you post, and sublicense those rights to others, is perpetual and irrevocable, to the maximum extent permitted by law, except as otherwise specified in this Agreement. 3. You acknowledge and agree that Quora may preserve Your Content and may also disclose Your Content and related information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process, applicable laws or government requests; (b) enforce these Terms of Service; (c) respond to claims that any of Your Content violates the rights of third parties; (d) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; or (e) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Quora, its users, or the public. 4. You understand that we may modify, adapt, or create derivative works from Your Content in order to transmit, display or distribute it over computer networks, devices, service providers, and in various media.

Clause: derivative works, create derivative

License and Permission to Use Your Content. 1. By submitting, posting, or displaying Your Content on the Quora Platform, you grant Quora and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable (through multiple tiers), license to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, create derivative works from, publish, transmit, store, display and distribute, translate, communicate and make available to the public, and otherwise use Your Content in connection with the operation or use of the Quora Platform or the promotion, advertising or marketing of the Quora Platform or our business partners, in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed), including via means of automated distribution, such as through an application programming interface (also known as an “API”). You agree that this license includes the right for Quora to make Your Content available to other companies, organizations, business partners, or individuals who collaborate with Quora for the syndication, broadcast, communication and making available to the public, distribution or publication of Your Content on the Quora Platform or through other media or distribution methods. This license also includes the right for other users of the Quora Platform to use, copy, reproduce, adapt, modify, create derivative works from, publish, transmit, display, and distribute, translate, communicate and make available to the public Your Content, subject to our Terms of Service. Except as expressly provided in these Terms of Service, this license will not confer the right for you to use automated technology to copy or post questions and answers or to aggregate questions and answers for the purpose of making derivative works. If you do not wish to allow your answers to be translated by other users, you can globally opt out of translation in your profile settings or you can designate certain answers not for translation. 2. Once you post an answer to a question, you may edit or delete your answer at any time from public display on https://www.quora.com, except in the case of anonymously posted answers.

Clause: derivative works

By submitting, posting, or displaying Your Content on the Quora Platform, you grant Quora and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable (through multiple tiers), license to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, create derivative works from, publish, transmit, store, display and distribute, translate, communicate and make available to the public, and otherwise use Your Content in connection with the operation or use of the Quora Platform or the promotion, advertising or marketing of the Quora Platform or our business partners, in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed), including via means of automated distribution, such as through an application programming interface (also known as an “API”). You agree that this license includes the right for Quora to make Your Content available to other companies, organizations, business partners, or individuals who collaborate with Quora for the syndication, broadcast, communication and making available to the public, distribution or publication of Your Content on the Quora Platform or through other media or distribution methods. This license also includes the right for other users of the Quora Platform to use, copy, reproduce, adapt, modify, create derivative works from, publish, transmit, display, and distribute, translate, communicate and make available to the public Your Content, subject to our Terms of Service. Except as expressly provided in these Terms of Service, this license will not confer the right for you to use automated technology to copy or post questions and answers or to aggregate questions and answers for the purpose of making derivative works. If you do not wish to allow your answers to be translated by other users, you can globally opt out of translation in your profile settings or you can designate certain answers not for translation. 2. Once you post an answer to a question, you may edit or delete your answer at any time from public display on https://www.quora.com, except in the case of anonymously posted answers. However, we may not be able to control removal of the answer from display on syndicated channels or other previously distributed methods outside of https://www.quora.com. Quora may remove suspected spam from your answers.

Clause: derivative works, create derivative

The right for Quora to copy, display, transmit, publish, perform, distribute, store, modify, and otherwise use any question you post, and sublicense those rights to others, is perpetual and irrevocable, to the maximum extent permitted by law, except as otherwise specified in this Agreement. 3. You acknowledge and agree that Quora may preserve Your Content and may also disclose Your Content and related information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process, applicable laws or government requests; (b) enforce these Terms of Service; (c) respond to claims that any of Your Content violates the rights of third parties; (d) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; or (e) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Quora, its users, or the public. 4. You understand that we may modify, adapt, or create derivative works from Your Content in order to transmit, display or distribute it over computer networks, devices, service providers, and in various media. We also may remove or refuse to publish Your Content, in whole or part, at any time. 5. You further give us the permission and authority to act as your nonexclusive agent to take enforcement action against any unauthorized use by third parties of any of Your Content outside of the Quora Platform or in violation of our Terms of Service. 5.

Clause: derivative works, create derivative

  1. We grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive license to use and access Our Content and Materials and Data as made available to you on the Quora Platform in connection with your use of the Quora Platform, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. 2. Quora gives you a worldwide, royalty-free, revocable, personal, non-assignable and non-exclusive license to re-post a small portion of any answer or post posted by other Quora users anywhere on the web, subject to these Terms and Conditions and provided that: (a) the content in question was added to the Quora Platform after April 22, 2010; (b) the user who created the content has not explicitly marked the content as not for reproduction on the Quora Platform; (c) you do not modify the content; (d) you attribute Quora by name in readable text and with a human and machine-followable link (an HTML anchor tag) linking back to the page displaying the original source of the content on https://quora.com on every page that contains such content; (e) upon request, either by Quora or a user, you remove the user’s name from content which the user has subsequently made anonymous; (f) upon request, either by Quora or by a user who contributed to the content, you make a reasonable effort to update a particular piece of content to the latest version on the Quora Platform; and (g) upon request, either by Quora or by a user who contributed to the content, you make a reasonable attempt to delete content that has been deleted or marked as not for reproduction on the Quora Platform; and (h) you do not use any automated tools to aggregate or create derivative works. In exercising these rights, you may not implicitly or explicitly assert any connection with, sponsorship or endorsement by Quora, or any Quora user, without separate, express prior written permission from us. 3. We may terminate our license to you at any time for any reason. We have the right but not the obligation to refuse to distribute any content on the Quora Platform or to remove content. Except for the rights and license granted in these Terms of Service, we reserve all other rights and grant no other rights or licenses, implied or otherwise.

2022-09-20

artificial intelligence, machine learning, royalty-free, sublicense, sublicensable, transferable, assignable, irrevocable unchanged from 2022-07-11.

create derivative: narrower window than 2022-07-11.

Clause: derivative works

  1. By submitting, posting, or displaying Your Content on the Quora Platform, you grant Quora and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable (through multiple tiers), license to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, create derivative works from, publish, transmit, store, display and distribute, translate, communicate and make available to the public, and otherwise use Your Content in connection with the operation or use of the Quora Platform or the promotion, advertising or marketing of the Quora Platform or our business partners, in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed), including via means of automated distribution, such as through an application programming interface (also known as an “API”). You agree that this license includes the right for Quora to make Your Content available to other companies, organizations, business partners, or individuals who collaborate with Quora for the syndication, broadcast, communication and making available to the public, distribution or publication of Your Content on the Quora Platform or through other media or distribution methods. This license also includes the right for other users of the Quora Platform to use, copy, reproduce, adapt, modify, create derivative works from, publish, transmit, display, and distribute, translate, communicate and make available to the public Your Content, subject to our Terms of Service. Except as expressly provided in these Terms of Service, this license will not confer the right for you to use automated technology to copy or post questions and answers or to aggregate questions and answers for the purpose of making derivative works. If you do not wish to allow your answers to be translated by other users, you can globally opt out of translation in your profile settings or you can designate certain answers not for translation. 2. Once you post an answer to a question, you may edit or delete your answer at any time from public display on https://www.quora.com, except in the case of anonymously posted answers. However, we may not be able to control removal of the answer from display on syndicated channels or other previously distributed methods outside of https://www.quora.com.

2023-07-25

Clause: artificial intelligence, machine learning, derivative works, create derivative, train AI/models

We may terminate our license to you at any time for any reason. We have the right but not the obligation to refuse to distribute any content on the Quora Platform or to remove content for any reason in our sole discretion. Except for the rights and license granted in these Terms of Service, we reserve all other rights and grant no other rights or licenses, implied or otherwise. 4.4 Restricted Uses. You represent and warrant that you will not: * Access, search or collect data from the Quora Platform (through automated or other means, including artificial intelligence or machine learning) (1) to create derivative works of Our Content and Materials; (2) to train or develop any AI, large language models or machine learning algorithms on Our Content or Materials; (3) to create any service competitive to the Quora Platform; or (4) for other commercial purposes except as expressly permitted by these Terms of Service or the written consent of Quora. * Use Quora in any manner that could interfere with, disable, disrupt, overburden, or otherwise impair the Quora Platform; * Reverse assemble, reverse compile, decompile any part of the Quora Platform; * Upload, transmit, or distribute to or through the Quora Platform any viruses, worms, malicious code, or other software intended to interfere with the Quora Platform, including its security-related features; or * Gain access to (or attempt to gain access to) another user’s account or any non-public portions of the Quora Platform, including the computer systems or networks connected to or used together with the Quora Platform. 4.5 Permission to Crawl. If you operate a search engine, subject to the Restricted Uses section above, we conditionally grant permission to crawl the Quora Platform subject to the following rules: (1) you must use a descriptive user agent header; (2) you must follow robots.txt at all times; (3) your access must not adversely affect any aspect of the Quora Platform’s functioning; (4) you must make it clear how to contact you, either in your user agent string, or on your website if you have one. 4.6 No Endorsement or Verification.

Clause: machine learning, royalty-free, derivative works, create derivative, assignable, train AI/models

For clarity, Usage Data does not include Your Content and is separate from Our Content and Materials. Please refer to our Privacy Policy for information about how we process your personal information. 4.3 Our License to You. We grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive license to use and access Our Content and Materials and Usage Data as made available to you on the Quora Platform in connection with your use of the Quora Platform, subject to the terms and conditions of this agreement. Quora gives you a worldwide, royalty-free, revocable, personal, non-assignable and non-exclusive license to re-post a small portion of any answer or post posted by other Quora users anywhere on the web, subject to these Terms and provided that: (a) the content in question was added to the Quora Platform after April 22, 2010; (b) the user who created the content has not explicitly marked the content as not for reproduction on the Quora Platform; (c) you do not modify the content; (d) you attribute Quora by name in readable text and with a human and machine-followable link (an HTML anchor tag) linking back to the page displaying the original source of the content on https://quora.com on every page that contains such content; (e) upon request, either by Quora or a user, you remove the user’s name from content which the user has subsequently made anonymous; (f) upon request, either by Quora or by a user who contributed to the content, you make a reasonable effort to update a particular piece of content to the latest version on the Quora Platform; and (g) upon request, either by Quora or by a user who contributed to the content, you make a reasonable attempt to delete content that has been deleted or marked as not for reproduction on the Quora Platform; (h) you do not use any automated tools to aggregate or create derivative works, and (i) you do not use any of Our Content or Materials to train or develop any AI, large language models or machine learning algorithms. In exercising these rights, you may not implicitly or explicitly assert any connection with, sponsorship or endorsement by Quora, or any Quora user, without separate, express prior written permission from us. We may terminate our license to you at any time for any reason. We have the right but not the obligation to refuse to distribute any content on the Quora Platform or to remove content for any reason in our sole discretion. Except for the rights and license granted in these Terms of Service, we reserve all other rights and grant no other rights or licenses, implied or otherwise.

Clause: royalty-free, sublicensable, derivative works, create derivative, transferable

All material that you upload, publish, display, or transmit to others via Quora will be referred to collectively as “Your Content.” You, or your licensors, as applicable, retain ownership of the copyright and other intellectual property in Your Content, subject to the non-exclusive rights granted below. You acknowledge and agree that, as part of using Quora, Your Content may be viewed by the general public. Please understand where you are posting on Quora and choose the right space, features, and settings for you and Your Content. 3.2 License and Permission to Use Your Content. By submitting, posting, displaying, or transmitting Your Content on or through the Quora Platform, you grant Quora and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable (through multiple tiers), license to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, create derivative works from, publish, transmit, store, display and distribute, translate, communicate and make available to the public, and otherwise use Your Content in connection with the operation or use of the Quora Platform or, subject to our Privacy Policy, the promotion, advertising or marketing of the Quora Platform or our business partners, in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed), including via means of automated distribution, such as through an application programming interface (also known as an “API”). You agree that, subject to and consistent with our Privacy Policy, this license includes the right for Quora to make Your Content available to other companies, organizations, business partners, or individuals who collaborate with Quora for the syndication, broadcast, communication and making available to the public, distribution or publication of Your Content on the Quora Platform or through other media or distribution methods. This license also includes the right for other users of the Quora Platform to use, copy, reproduce, adapt, modify, create derivative works from, publish, transmit, display, and distribute, translate, communicate and make available to the public Your Content, subject to these Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy. Except as expressly provided in these Terms, this license will not confer the right for you to use automated technology to copy or post questions and answers or to aggregate questions and answers for the purpose of making derivative works. If you do not wish to allow your answers to be translated by other users, you can globally opt out of translation in your profile settings or you can designate certain answers not for translation.

Clause: sublicense, irrevocable

However, we may not be able to control removal of the answer from display on syndicated channels or other previously distributed methods outside of https://www.quora.com. Quora may remove suspected spam from your answers. Once you post a question, it may be edited or deleted by other users or by Quora at any time. Any edits and changes made by you may be visible to other users. The right for Quora to copy, display, transmit, publish, perform, distribute, store, modify, and otherwise use any question you post, and sublicense those rights to others, is perpetual and irrevocable, to the maximum extent permitted by law, except as otherwise specified in these Terms. You acknowledge and agree that Quora may preserve Your Content and may also disclose Your Content and related information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process, applicable laws or government requests; (b) enforce these Terms of Service; (c) respond to claims that any of Your Content violates the rights of third parties; (d) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; or (e) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Quora, its users, or the public. You understand that we may modify, adapt, or create derivative works from Your Content in order to transmit, display or distribute it over computer networks, devices, service providers, and in various media. We also may remove or refuse to publish Your Content, in whole or part, at any time. You further give us the permission and authority to act as your nonexclusive agent to take enforcement action against any unauthorized use by third parties of any of Your Content outside of the Quora Platform or in violation of our Terms of Service.

Clause: derivative works, create derivative

Please understand where you are posting on Quora and choose the right space, features, and settings for you and Your Content. 3.2 License and Permission to Use Your Content. By submitting, posting, displaying, or transmitting Your Content on or through the Quora Platform, you grant Quora and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable (through multiple tiers), license to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, create derivative works from, publish, transmit, store, display and distribute, translate, communicate and make available to the public, and otherwise use Your Content in connection with the operation or use of the Quora Platform or, subject to our Privacy Policy, the promotion, advertising or marketing of the Quora Platform or our business partners, in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed), including via means of automated distribution, such as through an application programming interface (also known as an “API”). You agree that, subject to and consistent with our Privacy Policy, this license includes the right for Quora to make Your Content available to other companies, organizations, business partners, or individuals who collaborate with Quora for the syndication, broadcast, communication and making available to the public, distribution or publication of Your Content on the Quora Platform or through other media or distribution methods. This license also includes the right for other users of the Quora Platform to use, copy, reproduce, adapt, modify, create derivative works from, publish, transmit, display, and distribute, translate, communicate and make available to the public Your Content, subject to these Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy. Except as expressly provided in these Terms, this license will not confer the right for you to use automated technology to copy or post questions and answers or to aggregate questions and answers for the purpose of making derivative works. If you do not wish to allow your answers to be translated by other users, you can globally opt out of translation in your profile settings or you can designate certain answers not for translation. Once you post an answer to a question, you may edit or delete your answer at any time from public display on https://www.quora.com, except in the case of anonymously posted answers. However, we may not be able to control removal of the answer from display on syndicated channels or other previously distributed methods outside of https://www.quora.com.

Clause: derivative works

3.2 License and Permission to Use Your Content. By submitting, posting, displaying, or transmitting Your Content on or through the Quora Platform, you grant Quora and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable (through multiple tiers), license to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, create derivative works from, publish, transmit, store, display and distribute, translate, communicate and make available to the public, and otherwise use Your Content in connection with the operation or use of the Quora Platform or, subject to our Privacy Policy, the promotion, advertising or marketing of the Quora Platform or our business partners, in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed), including via means of automated distribution, such as through an application programming interface (also known as an “API”). You agree that, subject to and consistent with our Privacy Policy, this license includes the right for Quora to make Your Content available to other companies, organizations, business partners, or individuals who collaborate with Quora for the syndication, broadcast, communication and making available to the public, distribution or publication of Your Content on the Quora Platform or through other media or distribution methods. This license also includes the right for other users of the Quora Platform to use, copy, reproduce, adapt, modify, create derivative works from, publish, transmit, display, and distribute, translate, communicate and make available to the public Your Content, subject to these Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy. Except as expressly provided in these Terms, this license will not confer the right for you to use automated technology to copy or post questions and answers or to aggregate questions and answers for the purpose of making derivative works. If you do not wish to allow your answers to be translated by other users, you can globally opt out of translation in your profile settings or you can designate certain answers not for translation. Once you post an answer to a question, you may edit or delete your answer at any time from public display on https://www.quora.com, except in the case of anonymously posted answers. However, we may not be able to control removal of the answer from display on syndicated channels or other previously distributed methods outside of https://www.quora.com. Quora may remove suspected spam from your answers.

Clause: derivative works, create derivative

Once you post a question, it may be edited or deleted by other users or by Quora at any time. Any edits and changes made by you may be visible to other users. The right for Quora to copy, display, transmit, publish, perform, distribute, store, modify, and otherwise use any question you post, and sublicense those rights to others, is perpetual and irrevocable, to the maximum extent permitted by law, except as otherwise specified in these Terms. You acknowledge and agree that Quora may preserve Your Content and may also disclose Your Content and related information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process, applicable laws or government requests; (b) enforce these Terms of Service; (c) respond to claims that any of Your Content violates the rights of third parties; (d) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; or (e) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Quora, its users, or the public. You understand that we may modify, adapt, or create derivative works from Your Content in order to transmit, display or distribute it over computer networks, devices, service providers, and in various media. We also may remove or refuse to publish Your Content, in whole or part, at any time. You further give us the permission and authority to act as your nonexclusive agent to take enforcement action against any unauthorized use by third parties of any of Your Content outside of the Quora Platform or in violation of our Terms of Service. 3.3 Your Responsibilities for Your Content. By posting Your Content on the Quora Platform, you represent and warrant to us that: (1) you have the ownership rights, or you have obtained all necessary licenses or permissions to use Your Content and grant us the rights to use Your Content as provided for under these Terms, and (2) that posting Your Content violates no intellectual property or personal right of others or any other applicable law or regulation, including any laws or regulations requiring disclosure that you have been compensated for Your Content.

Clause: crawl

4.4 Restricted Uses. You represent and warrant that you will not: * Access, search or collect data from the Quora Platform (through automated or other means, including artificial intelligence or machine learning) (1) to create derivative works of Our Content and Materials; (2) to train or develop any AI, large language models or machine learning algorithms on Our Content or Materials; (3) to create any service competitive to the Quora Platform; or (4) for other commercial purposes except as expressly permitted by these Terms of Service or the written consent of Quora. * Use Quora in any manner that could interfere with, disable, disrupt, overburden, or otherwise impair the Quora Platform; * Reverse assemble, reverse compile, decompile any part of the Quora Platform; * Upload, transmit, or distribute to or through the Quora Platform any viruses, worms, malicious code, or other software intended to interfere with the Quora Platform, including its security-related features; or * Gain access to (or attempt to gain access to) another user’s account or any non-public portions of the Quora Platform, including the computer systems or networks connected to or used together with the Quora Platform. 4.5 Permission to Crawl. If you operate a search engine, subject to the Restricted Uses section above, we conditionally grant permission to crawl the Quora Platform subject to the following rules: (1) you must use a descriptive user agent header; (2) you must follow robots.txt at all times; (3) your access must not adversely affect any aspect of the Quora Platform’s functioning; (4) you must make it clear how to contact you, either in your user agent string, or on your website if you have one. 4.6 No Endorsement or Verification. Please note that the Quora Platform contains access to third-party content, products and services, and it offers interactions with third parties. Participation or availability on the Quora Platform does not amount to endorsement or verification by us. We make no warranties or representations about the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of any content posted on the Quora Platform by anyone.

2023-11-20

All clauses unchanged from 2023-07-25 (see above).

2024-01-03

All clauses unchanged from 2023-11-20 (see above).

2024-01-10

All clauses unchanged from 2024-01-03 (see above).

2024-05-11

All clauses unchanged from 2024-01-10 (see above).

2024-05-12

All clauses unchanged from 2024-05-11 (see above).

2024-05-13

All clauses unchanged from 2024-05-12 (see above).

2024-05-14

All clauses unchanged from 2024-05-13 (see above).

2024-05-15

All clauses unchanged from 2024-05-14 (see above).

2024-05-17

All clauses unchanged from 2024-05-15 (see above).

2024-05-18

All clauses unchanged from 2024-05-17 (see above).

2025-10-23

All clauses unchanged from 2024-05-18 (see above).