Content Policy – Hugging Face

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Content Policy 🤗

🗓 Effective Date: April 10, 2025

At Hugging Face, we are dedicated to helping the entire AI Community work together to advance Open, Collaborative, and Responsible Machine Learning. We value these relationships and aim to maintain an environment where people feel welcome and supported and get the most out of their contributions and experiences.

We created the following Content Policy to outline our actions to protect our Community on our Platform and to provide important information about the Content we authorize to be posted on our Platform.

This Policy is incorporated into our Terms of Service, which is a binding agreement between you and us. You should carefully review all of our other guidelines, policies, and documents available on our Website, including our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Also, read the Hugging Face Code of Conduct, which gives a general overview and states our standards and how we wish the community would behave.

By accessing or using our Platform, you consent to all of this Policy and our other policies and terms.

So, if you do not agree with any of those, please do not access or use our Platform. We may change or update this Policy from time to time. Changes will be effective 10 days following posting the updated Policy on the Website. If you continue using our Platform 10 days following such posting, that means you accept those changes.

📚 Key definitions

Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meaning assigned in our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and all other policies available on our Website.

“Content” refers to any material posted, displayed, or accessed on our Website or Hub, including but not limited to code, data, text, graphics, images, username, applications, or software you, we, or any third party provide or make available.

Content types may include:

• “ML Artifacts”: Code and assets hosted as Hugging Face Repositories, including Models, Datasets, Spaces;

• “Community Content”: Content that can be found in the Community section of the Hugging Face Platform, including discussions, comments, and usernames, as well as related documentation such as READMEs, model cards, data cards, pull requests, and merges.

“Community” refers to all Users of the Hugging Face Platform, including Hugging Face personnel.

“Community Tab” refers to a collaborative feature where the Community can discuss specific Repositories, including providing feedback, brainstorming ideas and opening pull requests for improvements.

“Hugging Face” refers to Hugging Face Inc., which may perform its obligations through its affiliates, directors, subsidiaries, contractors, licensors, officers, agents, and/or employees.

“Platform”, “Hugging Face Hub”, or “Hub” refers to the hosting platform available at huggingface.co where Users can build, benchmark, share, version, and deploy Repositories, which may include Models, Datasets, and Machine Learning Applications.

“Repository” refers to a data structure that contains all of the project files and the entire revision history.

A Repository may be:

• “Public”: anyone on the internet can see it, but only you or members of your organization can make changes;

• “Private”: only you or members of your organization can see and make changes to the Repository; New Users need to join the maintaining organization in order to both see the Repository and access its Content.