when you use our services you provide us with things like your files content email messages contacts and so on your stuff. your stuff is yours. these terms don t give us any rights to your stuff except for the limited rights that enable us to offer the services. we need your permission to do things like hosting your stuff backing it up and sharing it when you ask us to. our services also provide you with features like photo thumbnails document previews email organization easy sorting editing sharing and searching. these and other features may require our systems to access store and scan your stuff. you give us permission to do those things and this permission extends to trusted third parties we work with.
dropbox along with their third parties are allowed to access scan store and duplicate content that you put on the service.