The Essentials

• Summary of Arbitration Provisions

• Community Rules

• Stuff not to do

• Stuff to do, please

• About images you upload

The Details

• Intellectual Property

• Use of Imgur content

• Notices of claimed copyright infringement (or other types of infringement)

• Use of our Trademark

• Agreement to Arbitrate and Class Action Waiver

• Disclaimer of Warranties, Limitations of Remedies, Indemnity

• Miscellaneous

Effective Feb 3, 2025

Your use of the App or Website is subject to these Terms, the Imgur Community Rules and the Privacy Policy, which may be updated from time to time (together, this "Agreement"). Violation of the Terms or Community Rules may result in removal of content or a User Account from the App.

Using our app to do anything other than access the links to this "Terms" page or accessing any page of our website other than our home page and this "Terms" page constitutes your consent to these terms of use and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not consent, do not use our website.

Your use of our website to do anything beyond simply accessing/viewing it (that is, uploading, downloading, commenting, etc.), constitutes not merely your consent, but also your electronic signature, meaning that you are contractually bound by these terms and by our Privacy Policy.

These Terms contain a binding arbitration provision and class action waiver terms. Unless you opt out or there is a suit in small claims court, you and we agree to submit disputes to a neutral arbitrator and not to sue in court in front of a judge or jury. Please see the arbitration section below for details.

These Terms of Use are our contract with you. We also have community rules, developed thanks to input from the Imgurian community, that serve as rules for using Imgur publicly.

If someone else might own the copyright to it, don't upload it. Don't upload gore, "hate speech" (i.e. demeaning race, gender, age, religious or sexual orientation, etc.), or material that is threatening, harassing, defamatory, or that encourages violence or crime. Don't upload illegal content such as child sexual abuse material or nonconsensual ("revenge") porn. Don't hotlink to adult content or to file-sharing, gambling, torrent, warez, or Imgur rip-off sites. Don't impersonate someone else. Also, don't use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere, content for your website, advertising, avatars, or anything else that turns us into your content delivery network. 

Except as expressly authorized by us in writing, you agree not to modify, reverse engineer, copy, frame, scrape, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on our service (including, our App, Website, and UGC), in whole or in part, including for any purposes related to AI machine learning/use on AI platforms, except that the foregoing does not apply to your own UGC that you legally upload to our service. In connection with your use of our service (including, our App, Website, and UGC) you shall not engage in or use any data mining, robots, scraping or similar data gathering or extraction methods, including for any purposes related to AI machine learning/use on AI platforms. Any use of our service (including, our App, Website, and UGC) other than as specifically authorized herein is strictly prohibited.

If you do – and we will be the judge – or if you do anything illegal, in addition to any other legal rights we may have, we will ban you along with the site you're hotlinking from, delete all your images, report you to the authorities if necessary, and prevent you from viewing any images hosted on Imgur.com. We mean it.

Please have tons of fun! That's what Imgur is all about. If something isn't fun -- if you see anything on our site that shouldn't be there because it violates our policies, is illegal (e.g. revenge porn or child porn), or for some other reason, please let us know by emailing us at abuse@imgur.com.

You can upload images anonymously and share them online with only the people you choose to share them with. If you make them publicly available, they may be featured in the gallery. If you share an image publicly with Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Reddit, etc., then it may end up in the gallery.

By uploading a file or other content or by making a comment, you represent and warrant to us that (1) doing so does not violate or infringe anyone else's rights; and (2) you created the file or other content you are uploading, or otherwise have sufficient intellectual property rights to upload the material consistent with these terms. With regard to any file or content you upload to the public portions of our site, you grant Imgur a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable worldwide license (with sublicense and assignment rights) to use, to display online and in any present or future media, to create derivative works of, to allow downloads of, and/or distribute any such file or content. To the extent that you delete any such file or content from the public portions of our site, the license you grant to Imgur pursuant to the preceding sentence will automatically terminate, but will not be revoked with respect to any file or content Imgur has already copied and sublicensed or designated for sublicense. Also, of course, anything you post to a public portion of our site may be used by the public pursuant to the following paragraph even after you delete it.

By downloading an image or copying other user-generated content (UGC) from Imgur, you agree that you do not claim any rights to it. The following conditions apply:

• You may use UGC, our service, including without limitation, our App or Website, solely for personal, non-commercial purposes.

• You may use UGC for anything that qualifies as fair use under copyright law, for example journalism (news, comment, criticism, etc.), but please include an attribute ("Imgur" or "courtesy of Imgur") next to where it is displayed.

• You may not use UGC for non-journalistic commercial purposes.

• Your use of UGC is at your own risk. IMGUR MAKES NO WARRANTIES OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, and you will indemnify and hold Imgur harmless from any copyright infringement claims arising out of your use of the UGC. (See our general disclaimers below.)

You may not copy or use any portions of our site that are not UGC except within the limits of fair use. For the sake of clarity, you agree not to use, display, distribute, license, perform, publish, reproduce, duplicate, copy, create derivative works from, modify, sell, resell, exploit (including, without limitation, for A.I. machine learning purposes), transfer or transmit for any commercial purposes/machine learning purposes, any portion of our service (including, our App, Website, and UGC), use our service (including, our App, Website, and UGC), or access our service (including, our App, Website, and UGC). Our service (including, our App, Website, and UGC) is for your personal use and may not be used for direct commercial endeavors without the express written consent of us. For the sake of clarity, if you desire to use, display, distribute, license, perform, publish, reproduce, duplicate, copy, create derivative works from, modify, sell, resell, exploit (including, without limitation, for A.I. machine learning purposes), transfer or transmit our service (including, our App, Website, and UGC), any portion of our service (including, our App, Website, and UGC), or access to our service (including, our App, Website, and UGC) for any commercial purpose, including without limitation AI machine learning, use on AI platforms, etc., you must first obtain our express signed written consent prior to such use. 

If you see anything on our site that you believe infringes your copyright rights, you may notify our Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") agent by sending the following information:

• Identification of the copyrighted work or works claimed to have been infringed. IMPORTANT: please include your copyright registration number. If your work is not yet registered, please include a copy of the application to register the work that you filed with the Copyright Office. A copyright infringement claim based on a U.S. work can only be filed if the work has been registered (http://www.copyright.gov/eco/). Registration currently takes about seven months.

• Identification of the material on our servers that is claimed to be infringing and that is to be removed, including the URL or other information to enable us to locate the material.

• A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by you as copyright owner, or by your agent, or by law.

• A statement that the information in your notice is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner (or authorized to act on behalf of the owner) of the exclusive copyright right that is allegedly being infringed.

• Your physical or electronic signature, or of someone authorized to act on your behalf.

• Instructions on how we may contact you: preferably email, but also address and phone.

Because a high percentage of DMCA takedown notices are not valid, Imgur reserves the right to ignore DMCA notifications based on unregistered works.

Any such notifications of claimed infringement should be sent to:
Email: abuse@imgur.com
Mailing Address:
MediaLab.Ai Inc. c/o Imgur
8023 Beverly Blvd.
Suite 347
Los Angeles, CA 90048

Use the same procedure for any claimed trademark violations or other infringements. If we receive a DMCA takedown demand for material you posted that we believe constitutes fair use, we will attempt to notify you if we have your contact info; otherwise we are under no obligation to notify you regarding the removal. We reserve the right to refuse to remove any material that in our view constitutes fair use. If we identify you as a "repeat infringer," we will block or remove your images and terminate any accounts you have with us. (If we notify you of a DMCA removal and you respond with a legitimate counter-notice, that won't count toward being a repeat infringer.) Keep in mind that we reserve the right to remove any content at any time whether or not it infringes or violates any of our policies.

Any uses of our name, trademarks, and logos must follow our Trademark Use Policy.

We hope you and we will never have a Dispute, but if so, the resolution of that Dispute will be covered by these Terms.  As detailed below, you and we will first try to resolve any disputes through informal resolution.  If that fails, you and we agree to binding, individual arbitration before a single arbitrator appointed by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) under the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) and not to sue in court in front of a judge or jury.

Class action lawsuits, class-wide arbitrations, private attorney-general actions, requests for public injunctions, and any other proceeding or request for relief where someone acts in a representative capacity are not permitted.

1. Covered Disputes

Unless it is a stated exception indicated below, all “Disputes” will be subject to informal resolution and arbitration.  

The term “Dispute” shall be understood to be as broad as it can be.  It includes any dispute, claim, or controversy between you and MediaLab.Ai, Inc. (“MediaLab”), whether based in contract, warranty, tort, statute, regulation, fraud, misrepresentation, or any other legal theory, that either party seeks legal recourse for, and irrespective of whether the Dispute arises from or relates to your use of Imgur.com, your relationship with Medialab, these Terms, or otherwise.

Furthermore, once these Terms become applicable, a Dispute will be subject to this agreement to arbitrate irrespective of whether it arose prior to, on, or subsequent to you entering these Terms.

2. Exceptions to Covered Disputes

There are exceptions to the requirement to arbitrate Disputes.  They are:  

a. You and we each retain the right to seek injunctive or other equitable relief in a court of competent jurisdiction to prevent the actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation or violation of a party’s copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, patents, or other intellectual property rights.

b. Disputes may be brought as individual actions in small claims court in the jurisdiction where you reside, if that small claims court has jurisdiction to hear the Dispute.

c. The determination of whether a party complied with pre-dispute informal resolution requirements sufficient to trigger the obligation to arbitrate.

3. Informal Resolution Process

For one of us to notify the other of a Dispute, we must send a written notice of such Dispute (a “Notice of Dispute”).  The Notice of Dispute must state: (i) the name, address, and contact information of the party giving notice; (ii) the facts giving rise to such Dispute; and (iii) the relief requested. 

You must send any Notice of Dispute by mail to Medialab.Ai, Inc. c/o Imgur, Legal Department, 8023 Beverly Blvd., Suite 347, Los Angeles, CA 90048.  We will send any Notice of Dispute to you at the email address or mailing address we have for you, if any. All statutes of limitations applicable to the Dispute will be considered tolled beginning on the day one of us sends a compliant Notice of Dispute to the other. 

After receipt of a Notice of Dispute, we will attempt to resolve any Dispute, in good faith and through informal negotiation, for 60 days after the Notice of Dispute is sent.  If no resolution is reached by the end of that 60-day period, either of us may commence an arbitration proceeding as set forth in this Agreement to Arbitrate. 

Compliance of a Notice of Dispute with these Terms, including whether a Notice of Dispute contained all required information, is an issue to be decided by a court.  If either of us attempts to commence an arbitration without having provided a compliant Notice of Dispute and waiting until the conclusion of the 60-day negotiation period, a court may enjoin the commence of the arbitration and order the party that has not followed this mandatory informal resolution process to reimburse the other party for any arbitration fees and costs already incurred.  

Note: We hope you also will try informal resolution with Medialab.ai before bringing an individual action in small claims court, but informal resolution is mandatory only as a prerequisite to arbitration.

4. Initiating the Arbitration Process

If informal resolution fails, the parties may proceed to arbitrate the Dispute on an individual basis.

To initiate an arbitration, you must submit a Demand for Arbitration to the AAA and mail a copy to us at: MediaLab.Ai, Inc., c/o Imgur, Legal Department, 8023 Beverly Blvd., Suite 347, Los Angeles, CA 90048.

The AAA will conduct any arbitration under its Commercial Arbitration Rules (or if you are an individual and use imgur.com for personal or household use, or if the value of the dispute is less than $75,000 whether or not you are an individual or how you use imgur.com, its Consumer Arbitration Rules). The AAA’s Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules, as modified by Section 8 below, will apply in Related Cases (discussed below).

For more information, see www.adr.org. 

5. The Arbitrator’s Powers

The AAA will appoint a single arbitrator pursuant to the applicable rules.

The arbitrator shall be responsible for determining all threshold arbitrability issues, including issues related to the scope of the Disputes covered by this agreement, as well as issues relating to whether any part of the Terms are unconscionable or illusory and any defense to arbitration, including waiver, delay, laches, or estoppel.

Further, the arbitrator will decide the merits of the Dispute, on an individual basis only.  The arbitrator’s decision will be final except for a limited right of review under the FAA. Class action lawsuits, class-wide arbitrations, private attorney-general actions, requests for public injunctive relief, and any other proceeding or request for relief where someone acts in a representative capacity are not permitted, and the arbitrator shall have the power to prohibit and enjoin the foregoing.

Unless otherwise prohibited by law, the arbitrator may award relief (including monetary, injunctive, and declaratory relief) only in favor of the individual party seeking relief and only to the extent necessary to provide relief necessitated by that party’s individual claim(s).  The arbitrator cannot award any relief, whether monetary, declaratory, or injunctive, that would affect a non-party.

6. Fees and Payments

The applicable AAA rules will govern payment of filing fees and the AAA’s arbitrator’s fees and expenses.  

In a consumer arbitration involving a Dispute of less than $75,000, Medialab.Ai, Inc. will reimburse you for any filing fees and also will be responsible for the AAA’s and arbitrator’s expenses.

7. The Arbitration Hearing

In a dispute involving $25,000 or less, any hearing will be telephonic or by videoconference unless the arbitrator finds good cause to hold an in-person hearing instead.  Any in-person hearing will take place in your county of residence (or, if a business, your principal place of business).

8. Potential Application of the Mass Arbitration Rules

If your Notice of Dispute involves a Dispute similar to those of at least 20 other claimants, and if you and those other claimants are represented by the same lawyers, or by lawyers who are coordinating with each other, you and we agree these claims will be deemed to be “Related Cases.” 

You and we agree the AAA’s Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules in effect when the Demand for Arbitration is filed, as modified by this section, will apply to Related Cases. Related Cases may only be prosecuted in batches of up to 50 individual arbitrations at a time, and those individual arbitrations will be resolved in the following manner: 

• A first batch of 50 Related Cases shall be filed (if necessary) and resolved by individual arbitration, with each side selecting an equal number for resolution, up to 25.

• None of the other Related Cases may be prosecuted in arbitration until a first batch of up to 50 individual arbitrations is resolved.

• If, after that first batch, the parties are unable to resolve the remaining Related Cases, a second batch of 50 Related Cases may be filed, where each side may select up to 25 of the Related Cases to be resolved in individual arbitrations. 

• This process of batched individual arbitrations will continue until the parties resolve all Related Cases informally or through individual arbitrations. A court has exclusive authority to enforce this paragraph, including whether it applies to a given set of claims, and to enjoin the filing or prosecution of arbitrations that do not comply with this paragraph.

9. Opting Out

You can choose to reject the agreement to arbitrate by mailing us a signed opt-out notice (“Opt-Out Notice”) within 30 days after the date you first access www.imgur.com or accept any subsequently published version of these Terms. 

The Opt-Out Notice must include a statement that you do not agree to this agreement to arbitrate, your name, address, phone number, and any email address(es) used to log in to any applicable account(s) to which the opt-out applies. You must mail the Opt-Out Notice to MediaLab.Ai, Inc., c/o Imgur, Legal Department, 8023 Beverly Blvd., Suite 347, Los Angeles, CA 90048. 

This procedure is the only way you can opt out of the agreement to arbitrate.  If you opt out of the agreement to arbitrate, all other parts of these Terms will continue to apply. Opting out of this agreement to arbitrate has no effect on any previous, other, or future arbitration agreements that you may have with us.

10. Class Action Waiver

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, for any matter not subject to the requirement to arbitrate, including if you have opted out of the arbitration requirement, you and we will only bring claims against the other in an individual capacity and shall not (1) seek to bring, join, or participate in any class or representative action, collective or class-wide arbitration, or any other action where another individual or entity acts in a representative capacity (like private attorney general actions); or (2) consolidate or combine individual proceedings or permit another to do so without the express consent of all parties.

11. Severability

If, after exhaustion of all appeals, a court finds any part of this agreement to arbitrate is unenforceable as to any claim or request for a remedy, then the parties agree to arbitrate all claims and remedies subject to arbitration before litigating in court any remaining claims or remedies (such as a request for a public injunction remedy, in which case the arbitrator issues an award on liability and individual relief before a court considers that request). Otherwise, if any other part of the agreement to arbitrate is found to be unenforceable, the remainder will remain in effect (with an arbitration award issued before any court proceeding begins).

Although of course we strive to make Imgur as dependable as possible, Imgur's services are provided on an AS IS – WITH ALL FAULTS basis. Your use of our service is entirely at your own risk. We do not guarantee the availability of our service at any given time, or the reliability of our service when it is running. We do not guarantee the integrity of, or the continued availability of, files on our servers. Whether we make backups, and if so, whether restoration of those backups will be available to you, is at our discretion. IMGUR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS AND IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS AND MERCHANTABILITY. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING ELSE STATED IN THESE TERMS, AND IRRESPECTIVE OF WHETHER IMGUR TAKES OR DOES NOT TAKE MEASURES TO REMOVE INAPPROPRIATE OR HARMFUL CONTENT FROM ITS SITE, IMGUR HAS NO DUTY TO MONITOR ANY CONTENT ON ITS SITE. IMGUR DOES NOT ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACCURACY, APPROPRIATENESS, OR HARMLESSNESS OF ANY CONTENT APPEARING ON IMGUR.COM THAT IS NOT PRODUCED BY IMGUR, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO USER CONTENT, ADVERTISING CONTENT, OR OTHERWISE.

Your sole remedy for the loss of any services and/or of any images or other data you may have stored on Imgur's service is to discontinue your use of our service. IMGUR WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, IMGUR'S SERVICES, EVEN IF IMGUR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF OR REASONABLY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NO CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF IMGUR'S SERVICES MAY BE BROUGHT MORE THAN ONE YEAR AFTER IT OCCURS.

YOU WILL INDEMNIFY AND HOLD IMGUR AND ALL OF ITS PERSONNEL HARMLESS FROM ALL LOSS, LIABILITY, CLAIMS, DAMAGES AND EXPENSES, INCLUDING REASONABLE ATTORNEY FEES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR VIOLATION OF THESE TERMS, YOUR INFRINGEMENT OF ANY THIRD PARTY'S RIGHTS, AND ANY HARM CAUSED TO ANY THIRD PARTY AS A RESULT OF YOUR UPLOADING OF FILES, COMMENTS, OR ANYTHING ELSE TO OUR SERVERS.

"Imgur" or "we" refers to Imgur, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and its successors and assigns. "You" refers to any person who has consented to these terms or has become contractually bound to them, whether such person is identified or not at the time. These terms are governed by California law, excluding its conflicts of law principles, and if there is a lawsuit between you and Imgur, jurisdiction and venue will lie exclusively in the State where the defendant is located, if within the United States, or in Santa Clara County, California otherwise. If any part of these terms is invalid, the remaining provisions will be unaffected. These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement among the parties relating to this subject matter, and they will continue to govern any issues that arise out of your use of Imgur's services even after you discontinue using them. We may revise these terms from time to time without notice. Whenever we do so, we will so indicate by changing the version date at the top. Any changes apply as of the time they are posted. Imgur is not meant for use by children under age 13; if your child is younger than 13 please allow him or her to use it only under your supervision.

Parental control protections (such as computer hardware, software, or filtering services) are commercially available that may assist you in limiting access to material that is harmful to minors. See e.g. www.toptenreviews.com/software/security/best-internet-filter-software.