Fireflies.ai
Fireflies grants themselves a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide license to your content that survives account deletion, though they promise not to use it for AI training. They force binding arbitration with complex mass dispute procedures and can terminate accounts for any reason. However, they do provide clear AI training protections and transparent data processing commitments.
If you use Fireflies, they're now giving you more control over costs: they'll notify you 30 days before raising prices, and they won't automatically upgrade your account without your explicit permission (it's now off by default). They also made it clearer that you can cancel anytime through your account settings, and they added a new dictation feature called Fireflies Talk that has its own separate terms you should check out.
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Fireflies grants themselves a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide license to your content that survives account deletion, though they promise not to use it for AI training. They force binding arbitration with complex mass dispute procedures and can terminate accounts for any reason. However, they do provide clear AI training protections and transparent data processing commitments.
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Notable Clauses
“You grant Fireflies a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully paid, and sublicensable (through multiple tiers) license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly or otherwise perform and display, and exploit your User Content in all ...”
“Except for individual disputes that qualify for small claims court and any disputes exclusively related to the intellectual property rights of you or Fireflies, all Claims that are not resolved in accordance with Section 20(b) must be resolved by a neutral arbitrator through final and binding arbitr...”
“All prices on the Services are subject to change at any time without notice, and, unless otherwise indicated, prices shown on our Services exclude taxes.”
“Delete or remove User Content or refuse to post any User Content at any time and for any reason with or without notice, including for any violations of these Terms; Terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the Services, temporarily or permanently, if your conduct or User Content is reasona...”
“To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Fireflies and the other Fireflies Parties will not be liable to you under any theory of liability—whether based in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, warranty, or otherwise—for any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, punitive,...”
“If Auto-Upgrade is enabled and your use of Credits exceeds the limit for your current tier, your Recurring Subscription will automatically upgrade to the next available tier. Upon such upgrade, you authorize Fireflies to charge your payment method the prorated difference between your current Subscri...”
“You acknowledge and agree, however, that Fireflies may derive usage, statistical, and other data from your User Content and use such derived data for its internal business purposes, including analyzing and improving the Services.”
“Notwithstanding the breadth of the license granted above, Fireflies: (i) will exercise its rights solely in connection with providing the Services to you and authorized users in your user group; and (ii) will not use your User Content to train, retrain, fine-tune or otherwise improve any generative ...”
Protect Yourself
ACTIONABLESettings and actions you can take to limit your exposure
Turn Off Auto-Upgrade
Prevents automatic subscription tier upgrades when you exceed credit limits
- Go to account settings
- Find subscription or billing section
- Locate Auto-Upgrade feature
- Disable Auto-Upgrade option
Monitor Credit Usage
Track your credit consumption to avoid unexpected charges
- Check your dashboard regularly for credit balance
- Set up usage alerts if available
- Review credit consumption patterns monthly
Export Meeting Data
Download your transcripts and recordings before they can be permanently retained
- Go to your meeting history
- Select meetings to export
- Download transcripts and recordings
- Store backups locally or in your own cloud storage
Review Meeting Participants
Ensure all participants consent to recording as required by their terms
- Announce recording at meeting start
- Get verbal consent from all participants
- Document consent if required by your organization
- Stop recording if anyone objects
Opt Out of Arbitration
Preserve your right to sue in court or join class actions
- Email legal@fireflies.ai within 30 days of agreeing to terms
- Include your full name, address, and email
- Clearly state intent to opt out of binding arbitration
- Send from your own email (not through a lawyer)
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