Arbitration clause
Fox News generally requires individual arbitration, with small-claims and intellectual-property exceptions.
Context and exceptions.
Arbitration. Terms of Use, §23
Fox Corporation
Communication Services
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out of 100. Number 3 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Fox Corporation does well
- Fox gives advance notice before a subscription price increase and lets you cancel before the new charges take effect. The privacy policy has a per-property opt-out portal (fox.com, foxnews.com, foxnation.com, foxbusiness.com, foxsports.com 'Your Privacy Choices') and states it does not knowingly sell or share personal information of minors under
- The arbitration clause keeps a small-claims-court carve-out and the privacy policy was refreshed July 1, 2026 — unusually recent.
You waive jury trial and class actions — you must arbitrate individually, and the arbitrator's remedies are limited.
Checked against the source
Browser signal
Fox’s policy says it does not respond to Do Not Track signals.
Context and exceptions.
Data sharing. Privacy Policy, Do Not Track
The fine print
6 clauses and findings from the draft archive, dated 1 October 2026. The plain English comes first; the small print is the company's own words.
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You waive jury trial and class actions — you must arbitrate individually, and the arbitrator's remedies are limited. The only carve-outs are small-claims court and IP-infringement suits.
SECTION 23 BELOW CONTAINS PROVISIONS THAT, WITH LIMITED EXCEPTIONS: (a) REQUIRE THE USE OF ARBITRATION, RATHER THAN COURTS OR JURY TRIALS, TO RESOLVE DISPUTES; (b) REQUIRE YOU TO RESOLVE DISPUTES ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND EXPRESSLY WAIVE THE RIGHT TO BRING OR PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION IN CONNECTION WITH SUCH DISPUTES; AND (c) LIMIT THE REMEDIES THAT ARE AVAILABLE IN THE EVENT OF A DISPUTE.
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Fox can rewrite the arbitration rules retroactively — even disputes about things that happened before the new rules apply under the new rules.
Fox may update its dispute resolution procedures (currently in Section 23) at any time to apply to all 'Disputes' not yet initiated by you or us as of the date the dispute resolution procedures are updated. Thus, you and we must initiate any dispute under the version of Fox's dispute resolution procedures that is current as of the date you or we initiate the Dispute, regardless of whether the Dispute is based on alleged conduct that occurred before the dispute resolution procedures were updated.
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A free trial silently converts to a paid subscription at whatever the current price is — Fox says outright it won't remind you before charging.
AFTER YOUR FREE TRIAL ENDS, YOUR SUBSCRIPTION WILL AUTOMATICALLY CONVERT TO A REGULAR PRICE SUBSCRIPTION AT THE THEN-CURRENT PRICE, PLUS APPLICABLE TAXES, UNLESS YOU CANCEL BEFORE THE CONVERSION... You will not be notified that your Free Trial is about to end unless such notice is required by Applicable Law.
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Fox admits it 'sells' or 'shares' your name, IP, email and device identifiers to ad-tech firms and advertisers for targeted ads — including across devices and channels — and ignores your browser's Do Not Track signal.
Identifiers, such as name, IP address, email address, user/display name, and online and device identifiers [disclosed to] Advertising technology companies; advertisers — For the purpose of targeted advertising. [Also] sharing certain information with advertising technology and related companies (e.g., identity partners), such as an advertising identifier for your device, IP address, or a 'hash' of an identifier... for our use in online and cross-channel advertising. At this time, we do not respond to the 'Do Not Track' signal.
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Anything you post — comments, photos, videos — Fox can use, modify, sublicense and distribute forever, anywhere in the universe, and you can't revoke it.
By posting or uploading User Content to the Fox Services... you automatically grant (or warrant that the owner of such rights has expressly granted) Fox a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, publicly perform, translate, sub-license, create derivative works from, exploit, distribute and otherwise use such materials... throughout the universe in perpetuity.
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Fox can rewrite the terms for any reason, and the new terms take effect the moment they're posted — just using the service counts as agreement.
We may need to make changes to these Terms of Use from time to time and reserve the right to do so for any reason... Any material change to these Terms of Use will be effective as soon as the revised Terms of Use are first posted... Your continued use of the Fox Service following any modification constitutes your acceptance.
Fox News Terms of Use, Section 2 (Changes to These Terms of Use)
How these were found
Terms of Use: 'Last Revised: 08/27/2025' via OpenTermsArchive verbatim mirror (crawled ~Sep 25, 2026); official live page was not fetched directly. Privacy Policy: 'Last Updated/Effective Date: July 1, 2026' via the same OpenTermsArchive mirror; covers Fox Digital Services (Fox News, Fox Sports, Fox Broadcasting, Fox Television Stations). fox.com corporate privacy policy and Tubi's separate terms were not read — the score reflects the Fox News Network, LLC consumer terms (Fox News, Fox Business, Fox Weather, Fox Nation, Fox One). No invented clauses: all quotes verified in the opened mirror documents.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.