Cloudflare Website and Online Services Terms of Use
Effective August 1, 2025
Welcome to Cloudflare! As used in these Terms of Use, "Cloudflare", "us" or "we" refers to Cloudflare, Inc. and its affiliates.
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY AS IT AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS. These terms of use (“Terms”), along with Cloudflare’s Privacy Policy, govern your use of Cloudflare’s Websites and Online Services. For the purposes of these Terms, (i) “Websites” refers to www.cloudflare.com, as well as the other websites that Cloudflare operates and that link to these Terms, and (ii) “Online Services” means Cloudflare’s products and services that are publicly available without a subscription or a Cloudflare account, including, but not limited to, the 1.1.1.1 Public DNS Resolver service, including 1.1.1.1 for Families, Cloudflare Time Services, RPKI Portal, and Distributed Web Gateway and Resolver. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not access or use our Websites or Online Services.
THESE TERMS DO NOT APPLY TO YOUR ACCESS AND USE OF THE CLOUDFLARE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES THAT ARE PROVIDED UNDER THE SELF-SERVE SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT, THE ENTERPRISE SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT, OR OTHER WRITTEN AGREEMENT SIGNED BETWEEN YOU AND CLOUDFLARE (IF APPLICABLE).
If there is a conflict between these Terms and additional terms applicable to a given Website or Online Service, the additional terms will control for that conflict.
By agreeing to these Terms, you represent and warrant to us: (i) that you have not previously been suspended or removed from the Websites and Online Services and (ii) that your use of the Websites and Online Services is in compliance with any and all applicable laws and regulations.
- LICENSE GRANT TO CLOUDFLARE
By submitting, posting, or publishing your content, suggestions, enhancement requests, recommendations, feedback, information, data, or comments (“Content”) to any Website or Online Service, you are granting Cloudflare a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free right and license (with the right to sublicense) to use, incorporate, exploit, display, perform, reproduce, distribute, and prepare derivative works of your Content. You will retain ownership of your Content, however, any use of your Content by Cloudflare may be without any compensation paid to you. By submitting, posting, and publishing your Content, you represent and warrant that your Content, does not: (i) infringe, violate, or misappropriate any third-party right, including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, privacy right, right of publicity, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right; or (ii) slander, defame, or libel any third-party.
- INFRINGEMENT AND ABUSE
With respect to the Online Services, Cloudflare operates pass-through network services used to improve network performance, not hosting provider services and as such, we have no way of removing improper or infringing material from our users’ websites, third party sites or their hosting services. Cloudflare has no control over any decentralized name registries, and cannot remove material that is accessible through the Distributed Web Gateway. Copyright holders or their agents concerned with material served through Cloudflare’s network should submit a notification of claimed copyright infringement or other abuse through our automated form located at https://www.cloudflare.com/trust-hub/abuse-approach/.If you would prefer not to use our complaint submission form, you may mail your complaint to: