Tumblr vs Discord

Most sharing is public unless you take extra steps, and likes, reblogs, and replies can be visible too. This means casual activity can become broadly accessible and searchable.

For content you provide, Tumblr gets a worldwide, transferable, sublicensable license to host, modify, distribute, and analyze it. Public posts may also be made available to selected third parties for distribution or analysis.

Tumblr uses cookies, pixels, analytics, and inferred interests for targeted advertising, and may share certain data with advertising partners. In some U.S. states, that sharing can count as a sale/share you can opt out of.

Subscriptions renew automatically and charge your saved payment method until you cancel. Tumblr says you must cancel at least 14 days before the end of the current period to avoid the next charge.

Tumblr disclaims most warranties, excludes many categories of damages, and caps total liability at $100 or the amount paid. If something goes wrong, recovery against Tumblr is heavily constrained.

Disputes are governed by New York law and generally must be brought in state or federal court in New York County. That can make it harder and more expensive for users elsewhere to pursue claims.

Users can download a personal data report and export a copy of the content they post. That gives you at least some portability and visibility into what Tumblr has stored.

You can delete your account from settings, and Tumblr says it will delete the information it holds about you after 30 days unless it must keep it for legal reasons. This is a meaningful off-ramp, though not a perfect erasure promise.

Tumblr says it retains information only as long as needed for service, active accounts, and legal or dispute purposes. That is a reasonable retention statement, though backups and public reblogs can remain after deletion.

Tumblr says you keep ownership of the intellectual property rights in what you post. That is better than services that claim ownership of user uploads outright.

U.S. and Canada users generally must resolve disputes through individual arbitration, not court, and waive jury trials and class actions. This can make it harder and sometimes more expensive to pursue claims.

If Discord harms you, its financial responsibility is heavily limited to the greater of what you paid in the prior three months or $100. That can sharply reduce practical remedies for outages, data loss, or other service issues.

You may have to cover Discord’s legal costs and liabilities for claims related to your use, content, violations, or misconduct. This shifts significant risk onto users, especially creators or server operators.

Discord expressly says it does not sell personal information and says its business is funded by subscriptions, paid products, and sponsored content instead. That is a meaningful privacy-positive commitment.

Users can disable or delete their account from settings, and Discord says deletion permanently removes identifying information and anonymizes other data. This gives users a clear exit path, though some retention exceptions remain.

You can request a copy of your data in settings, and Discord says it provides the data in common digital formats such as JSON. This supports transparency and portability if you want to review or move your information.

You keep ownership of what you post, but Discord gets a worldwide, transferable, sublicensable license to use and adapt it for operating and improving the service. That is common, but still a broad grant users should understand.

Discord collects account details, messages and uploads, device and usage data, purchase data, and information from advertisers and other third parties. This supports personalization, safety, analytics, and advertising of Discord itself.

Public or widely available content and some reported material may be used to build automated safety and moderation systems. Users should know their content may help train detection systems, not just be displayed to recipients.

Discord can suspend or terminate accounts for violations, legal demands, safety concerns, risk to others, or even over two years of inactivity. It may do so with or without notice, subject to law.

Discord offers settings to limit personalization and some data use for service improvement, plus controls for visibility and safety features. These controls do not eliminate collection entirely, but they give users meaningful choices.

Discord says it will date updates and provide more prominent notice when privacy-policy changes are significant, such as email or in-app highlighting where required. This is better than silent policy changes.