> I would like to see someone who is expert in this area weigh in on why these services come up with these terms Obligatory IANAL. But I don't need to be. IF

> I would like to see someone who is expert in this area weigh in on why these services come up with these terms Obligatory IANAL. But I don't need to be. IFTTT came up with these terms because they believe the terms to be beneficial to them. It's that simple. They could have put terms in which said "integration with IFTTT means you're giving us permission to connect to your service, and to copy and redistribute the data without limit". After all, that's what they do, technically. Instead, they're claiming ownership over the data. Your data. That's something very different.