{"id":78461,"date":"2025-02-28T15:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T23:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/?p=78461"},"modified":"2025-09-02T12:35:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:35:20","slug":"update-on-terms-of-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/firefox\/update-on-terms-of-use\/","title":{"rendered":"An update on our terms of use"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/products\/firefox\/firefox-news\/firefox-terms-of-use\/\">we shared<\/a> that we\u2019re introducing a new terms of use (TOU) and privacy notice for Firefox. Since then, we\u2019ve been listening to some of our community\u2019s concerns with parts of the TOU, specifically about licensing. Our intent was just to be as clear as possible about how we make Firefox work, but in doing so we also created some confusion and concern. With that in mind, we\u2019re updating the language to more clearly reflect the <em>limited <\/em>scope of how Mozilla interacts with user data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s what the new language will say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You give Mozilla the rights necessary to operate Firefox. This includes processing your data as we describe in the Firefox privacy notice. It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, we\u2019ve removed the reference to the Acceptable Use Policy because it seems to be causing more confusion than clarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Privacy FAQ<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also updated our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/privacy\/faq\/\">Privacy FAQ<\/a> to better address legal minutia around terms like \u201csells.\u201d While we\u2019re not reverting the FAQ, we want to provide more detail about why we made the change in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TL;DR<\/strong> Mozilla doesn\u2019t sell data about you (in the way that most people think about &#8220;selling data&#8221;), and we don\u2019t buy data about you. We changed our language because some jurisdictions define \u201csell\u201d more broadly than most people would usually understand that word. Firefox has built-in privacy and security features, plus <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/kb\/firefox-options-preferences-and-settings#w_privacy-security\">options<\/a> that let you fine-tune your data settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason we\u2019ve stepped away from making blanket claims that \u201cWe never sell your data\u201d is because, in some places, the LEGAL definition of \u201csale of data\u201d is broad and evolving. As an example, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) defines \u201csale\u201d as the \u201cselling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer\u2019s personal information by [a] business to another business or a third party\u201d in exchange for \u201cmonetary\u201d or \u201cother valuable consideration.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similar privacy laws exist in other US states, including in Virginia and Colorado. And that\u2019s a good thing \u2014 Mozilla has long been a supporter of data privacy laws that empower people \u2014 but the competing interpretations of do-not-sell requirements does leave many businesses uncertain about their exact obligations and whether or not they\u2019re considered to be \u201cselling data.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to make Firefox commercially viable, there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners, including our optional ads on New Tab and providing sponsored suggestions in the search bar. We set all of this out in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/privacy\/firefox\/\">privacy notice<\/a>. Whenever we share data with our partners, we put a lot of work into making sure that the data that we share is stripped of potentially identifying information, or shared only in the aggregate, or is put through our privacy preserving technologies (like <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/kb\/ohttp-explained\">OHTTP<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>We\u2019re continuing to make sure that Firefox provides you with sensible default settings that you can review during onboarding or <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/kb\/firefox-options-preferences-and-settings#w_privacy-security\">adjust<\/a> at any time.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday we shared that we\u2019re introducing a new terms of use (TOU) and privacy notice for Firefox. Since then, we\u2019ve been listening to some of our community\u2019s concerns with parts of the TOU, specifically about licensing. 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