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I have just noticed the following paragraph in Grammarly Terms and Conditions.

By uploading or entering any User Content, you give Grammarly (and those it works with) a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free and fully-paid, transferable and sublicensable, perpetual, and irrevocable license to copy, store and use your User Content in connection with the provision of the Software and the Services and to improve the algorithms underlying the Software and the Services.

Is it legal for Grammarly to read all my emails, share them with all their partners and store them forever without the right to having them deleted?

I know I have agreed to the Terms and Conditions when singing up, but it seems like they have crossed the line of common sense usage of my personal data.

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Yes it is legal

In fact, most online content hosts have similar provisions. For example:

You Tube

For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your Content. However, by submitting Content to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the Content in connection with the Service and YouTube's (and its successors' and affiliates') business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels. You also hereby grant each user of the Service a non-exclusive license to access your Content through the Service, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform such Content as permitted through the functionality of the Service and under these Terms of Service. The above licenses granted by you in video Content you submit to the Service terminate within a commercially reasonable time after you remove or delete your videos from the Service. You understand and agree, however, that YouTube may retain, but not display, distribute, or perform, server copies of your videos that have been removed or deleted. The above licenses granted by you in user comments you submit are perpetual and irrevocable.

Twitter

By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed). This license authorizes us to make your Content available to the rest of the world and to let others do the same. You agree that this license includes the right for Twitter to provide, promote, and improve the Services and to make Content submitted to or through the Services available to other companies, organizations or individuals for the syndication, broadcast, distribution, promotion or publication of such Content on other media and services, subject to our terms and conditions for such Content use. Such additional uses by Twitter, or other companies, organizations or individuals, may be made with no compensation paid to you with respect to the Content that you submit, post, transmit or otherwise make available through the Services.

And, of course, Stack Exchange

You agree that all Subscriber Content that You contribute to the Network is perpetually and irrevocably licensed to Stack Exchange under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license. You grant Stack Exchange the perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use, copy, cache, publish, display, distribute, modify, create derivative works and store such Subscriber Content and, except as otherwise set forth herein, to allow others to do so in any medium now known or hereinafter developed (“Content License”) in order to provide the Services, even if such Subscriber Content has been contributed and subsequently removed by You.

However, local laws may limit their ability to use the material.

For example, an EU citizen's Right to be Forgotten may give them the right to demand erasure of information that meets the requirements of the directive.

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    The EU "right to be forgotten" (more accurately a right of erasure of personal information) has nothing to do with citizenship. It is available if the Data Subject was physically in the EU at the time that the offer of services was made or in some cases when data was collected, or when the subject's actions were monitored. It is available to non-EU citizens, and is not available to EU citizens who were not in the EU at the relevant times. Apr 15, 2021 at 16:36
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....but it seems like they have crossed the line of common sense usage of my personal data.

Common sense doesn't have anything to do with it. You entered into a legally binding contract by agreeing to the terms of service (TOS). That TOS says what it says: ...nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free and fully-paid, transferable and sublicensable, perpetual, and irrevocable license...

Pertaining to the US, as long as the TOS meets the basic requirements of a contract, then it is a binding contract. See What is a contract and what is required for them to be valid? I'm sure their lawyers have vetted the TOS as a contract that can withstand legal scrutiny. And it is a legal contract if you meet the requirements of being able to enter into a contract, i.e., your age, legal capacity, your international location, etc.

There will be nations other than the US where laws may nullify some/all of the TOS regarding the data use and storage. Other LE users can add answers about other countries and their laws on contracts, data storage, privacy and consumer protections.

You have one option if you don't like the TOS, and that is to stop using the service. Delete as much content as you can and close your account; but whatever content you have uploaded is now licensed to them.

And, of course, your question - and my answer - are licensed in a similar way here on Stack Exchange:

You agree that all Subscriber Content that You contribute to the Network is perpetually and irrevocably licensed to Stack Exchange under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license. You grant Stack Exchange the perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use, copy, cache, publish, display, distribute, modify, create derivative works and store such Subscriber Content and, except as otherwise set forth herein, to allow others to do so in any medium now known or hereinafter developed (“Content License”) in order to provide the Services, even if such Subscriber Content has been contributed and subsequently removed by You. http://stackexchange.com/legal/terms-of-service

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