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Terms of Use

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CrowdStrike Website Terms of Use — User Overview

> Scope: These terms govern use of CrowdStrike’s public websites, not CrowdStrike products such as Falcon. Product trials and services are governed by separate terms. The linked Privacy Notice is incorporated into these terms and is essential for understanding data practices.

1. Data Collection and Use

The Terms indicate that CrowdStrike may receive:

  • Registration and account information, including usernames, passwords, and other details required to access restricted areas.
  • User Content, such as information, data, files, code, scripts, APIs, webhooks, keys, URLs, applications, and other materials posted to the Website.
  • Payment and purchasing information for Website purchases. Payment details may be shared with third-party payment processors for storage and transaction processing.
  • Information submitted through the Store, including requests for partner products or services.
  • Feedback, comments, suggestions, communications, prompt submissions, and improvement requests.

The Terms do not describe the full categories of personal data collected, cookies, tracking technologies, retention periods, or specific purposes of processing. Those details are in the separate Privacy Notice, which users should review.

Important User Content risk

Unless expressly stated otherwise, anything you post is treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary. You grant CrowdStrike a broad, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, disclose, distribute, publicly display, sell, and create derivatives from that content for any purpose.

Do not post confidential business information, personal data belonging to others, credentials, security keys, or material you do not have authority to share.

2. User Rights Regarding Data

These Terms provide no specific rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to processing of personal data. Such rights, if available, will depend on the Privacy Notice and applicable law, including potentially UK, Australian, EU, California, or other privacy laws.

The Terms also do not promise deletion of User Content after account closure. Because the license is perpetual and irrevocable, removing a post may not end CrowdStrike’s rights to use copies or derivative works already created.

3. Sharing with Third Parties

The Terms expressly permit or require sharing with:

  • CrowdStrike partners: If you request information about or access a partner’s products or services through the Store, your personal information will be shared with partners for marketing purposes.
  • Payment processors: Payment information may be shared to process purchases, store payment methods, and update card details through card-provider account-update programs.
  • Service providers, affiliates, licensors, or other third parties: The User Content license expressly permits disclosure and sublicensing.
  • External websites and vendors: Links and third-party products are provided without CrowdStrike responsibility or endorsement.

The Privacy Notice should be consulted for broader disclosures, international transfers, advertising, analytics, and legal or security disclosures.

4. AI/ML Training

The Terms do not expressly state whether personal data, User Content, feedback, or prompt submissions are used to train artificial-intelligence or machine-learning models.

However, the broad license over User Content and the separate license covering feedback and prompt submissions permit commercial use “for any purpose.” This creates uncertainty. Users should not assume that prompts, feedback, or posted content are excluded from AI/ML development unless the Privacy Notice, product terms, or a separate agreement clearly says so.

5. Key User Obligations and Restrictions

Users must:

  • Be at least 18 years old and have authority to accept the Terms for an organization.
  • Keep account credentials confidential and promptly report unauthorized access.
  • Comply with laws, export controls, and third-party rights.
  • Post only content they own or are authorized to use.
  • Avoid abusive, defamatory, obscene, hateful, threatening, harassing, violent, or otherwise objectionable content.
  • Use the Website only for legitimate business purposes related to an appropriate CrowdStrike role.
  • Pay applicable taxes, fees, carrier charges, payment fees, and collection costs.
  • Avoid copying, modifying, republishing, downloading, transmitting, or commercially exploiting Website content without permission.
  • Avoid unauthorized linking, framing, account sharing, or Partner Portal access.

CrowdStrike may edit or remove User Content and disable accounts or Partner Portal access at its discretion, with or without cause.

6. Liability and Disputes

  • The Website is provided “as is” and “as available,” with broad warranty disclaimers.
  • CrowdStrike disclaims responsibility for interruptions, errors, viruses, harmful code, inaccurate content, and third-party sites.
  • Liability for direct, indirect, consequential, punitive, lost-profit, lost-data, and similar damages is broadly excluded, to the extent permitted by law.
  • Users must indemnify CrowdStrike for claims and costs arising from their User Content.
  • California law governs.
  • Exclusive venue is the state or federal courts in Santa Clara County, California.

These limitations may be restricted by mandatory consumer-protection law.

7. Changes to the Terms

CrowdStrike may revise the Terms in its sole discretion. Users are expected to check the page periodically. Material changes apply prospectively, and continued use after posting constitutes acceptance. The Terms do not promise individual email or direct notice of changes.

Bottom line: The most significant risks are the broad perpetual license over posted content, marketing disclosure to partners, discretionary suspension or termination, limited warranties and liability, and the lack of clarity in these Terms about privacy rights and AI training.

Change history

2026-10-20 · Terms of Use

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2026-10-19 · Terms of Use

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2026-10-19 · Terms of Use

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2026-10-18 · Terms of Use

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2026-10-17 · Terms of Use

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2026-10-16 · Terms of Use

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2026-10-15 · Terms of Use

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2026-10-15 · Terms of Use

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2026-10-14 · Terms of Use

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2026-10-14 · Terms of Use

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2026-10-09 · Terms of Use

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2026-10-09 · Terms of Use

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2026-10-06 · Terms of Use

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Summary

The provided diff only states that approximately seven words were removed, but does not identify:

  • Which words were deleted;
  • The surrounding clause or section;
  • Whether any replacement language was added; or
  • Whether the change concerns data use, AI training, confidentiality, ownership, security, or other legal rights.

AI Training and Customer Data

No conclusions can be drawn about changes to the use of customer data to train AI models. The available information does not show whether the deletion:

  • Permits or restricts training on customer data;
  • Changes whether customer prompts, inputs, outputs, or content may be used for model improvement;
  • Removes a consent or opt-out requirement;
  • Changes anonymization or de-identification obligations;
  • Alters ownership or licensing rights in customer data; or
  • Affects deletion, retention, confidentiality, or security protections.

Risk Assessment

The deletion could be legally significant, particularly if it removes limiting language, an approval requirement, or a customer protection. However, the risk cannot be assessed without the actual redline and surrounding text.

Information Needed

Please provide the complete diff, including the deleted words and the relevant surrounding provisions.

2026-10-06 · Terms of Use

grew 48.7% · Observed by clause.watch

The wording changed. No written summary was produced for this revision.

2026-10-04 · Terms of Use

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2026-10-03 · Terms of Use

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Summary of Changes

The diff shows the deletion of the site’s detailed cookie notice and preference-center content. No replacement language or new provisions are shown.

1. Removal of Cookie Disclosure and Consent Information

The deleted text explained:

  • That cookies may be used for site functionality, analytics, personalization, and marketing.
  • The available cookie categories:
  • Strictly necessary
  • Functional
  • Performance
  • Targeting
  • That strictly necessary cookies may process limited personal information, including technical or device identifiers.
  • That targeting cookies may assign unique identifiers, track activity across websites, build interest profiles, and support relevant advertising.
  • That users could reject all cookies, adjust category-level settings, or confirm their choices.
  • That blocking certain cookies could affect website functionality and analytics.
2. Legal and Compliance Risks

Removing this content may create several risks, depending on whether equivalent disclosures remain elsewhere:

  • Reduced transparency: Users may no longer receive clear information about what data cookies collect, why it is collected, and who may receive it.
  • Consent validity: If non-essential cookies are still deployed but the preference center or consent explanations are removed, consent may be less informed or difficult to demonstrate.
  • Targeted advertising risk: The deleted language specifically disclosed cross-site tracking and interest profiling by advertising partners. Removing it could make ad-tech practices less apparent and increase regulatory or contractual risk.
  • Choice and withdrawal risk: The deleted controls allowed users to reject or customize cookies. Their removal could impair the ability to obtain, document, or withdraw consent.
  • Third-party disclosure risk: The prior wording identified advertising partners as potential cookie issuers. Eliminating that explanation may obscure third-party processing arrangements.
3. Customer Data and AI Model Training

No express change concerning the use of customer data to train AI models appears in this diff. The deleted cookie language does not mention artificial intelligence, machine learning, model training, model improvement, or use of customer content for those purposes.

Accordingly, this diff provides no basis to conclude that customer data may now—or may no longer—be used to train AI models. Any such terms would need to be reviewed in the privacy policy, terms of service, product-specific data terms, or other incorporated documents.

Overall Assessment

The principal change is a reduction in cookie-related transparency and consent functionality, not an AI-data-use change. Confirm that equivalent disclosures and consent controls remain available elsewhere before implementing the deletion.

2026-09-28 · Terms of Use

grew 9.7% · Observed by clause.watch

Summary of Changes

The diff adds a detailed cookie-consent notice and preference center. No existing language is shown as deleted or replaced.

Key Additions
  • A banner stating that clicking “Accept All Cookies” permits cookies to be stored to:
  • Enhance site navigation;
  • Analyze site usage; and
  • Support marketing efforts.
  • Cookie categories and controls for:
  • Strictly necessary cookies;
  • Functional cookies;
  • Performance cookies; and
  • Targeting cookies.
  • Options to:
  • Reject all cookies;
  • Customize settings;
  • Allow all cookies; or
  • Confirm selected preferences.
  • A statement that strictly necessary cookies may process limited personal information, including technical or device identifiers, for security, functionality, and integrity purposes.
  • Information that targeting cookies may be placed by advertising partners and may track activity across websites to build interest profiles and deliver relevant advertising.

Important Legal and Privacy Implications

Consent and User Choice

The notice provides users with a mechanism to reject or customize non-essential cookies. However, the “Accept All Cookies” language creates broad consent covering analytics, personalization, and marketing. The implementation should ensure that non-essential cookies are not placed before the user makes an affirmative choice.

The notice should also make clear whether preferences can later be changed or withdrawn and how long consent records are retained.

Third-Party Tracking and Advertising

Targeting cookies may enable advertising partners to:

  • Assign unique identifiers;
  • Track users across different websites;
  • Build profiles of user interests; and
  • Deliver targeted advertising.

This may create obligations under privacy and electronic-marketing laws, including requirements concerning consent, disclosure of third parties, opt-out rights, and potentially the sale or sharing of personal information.

Data Characterization

The performance-cookie section describes collected information as aggregated and non-identifying, while the strictly necessary and targeting sections expressly refer to device identifiers and cross-site tracking. The organization should ensure that these descriptions are accurate and that supposedly aggregated data cannot reasonably be reidentified.

AI Model Training

No changes in the diff address the use of customer or user data to train, develop, fine-tune, evaluate, or improve AI models. The added cookie language only concerns website functionality, analytics, personalization, and advertising. It does not grant or restrict any express right to use cookie data or other customer data for AI training. Any such use would need to be addressed separately in the privacy policy, terms of service, or applicable data-processing terms.

2026-09-27 · Terms of Use

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Summary of Changes

1. Cookie and Privacy Notice Removed

The diff shows the deletion of the entire cookie-consent and privacy-preference text. No replacement language or additions are shown.

The removed content included:

  • Links and notices concerning privacy, cookies, and “Your Privacy Choices”
  • Cookie-consent options, including:
  • “Reject All”
  • “Accept All Cookies”
  • “Cookie Settings”
  • “Allow All”
  • A privacy-preference center
  • Descriptions of cookie categories:
  • Strictly necessary cookies
  • Functional cookies
  • Performance cookies
  • Targeting cookies
  • Explanations of the purposes and consequences of accepting or rejecting each category
  • Statements about processing technical or device identifiers
  • Information about advertising partners, cross-site tracking, interest profiles, and personalized advertising
  • Information that blocking certain cookies could affect website functionality and services
2. Potential Legal and Compliance Risks

The deletion may create several risks if the website continues to use cookies or similar technologies:

  • Reduced transparency: Visitors may no longer receive required information about what data is collected, why it is collected, and who receives it.
  • Consent risk: Removing “Reject All,” preference controls, or equivalent mechanisms could make consent less clear, freely given, or compliant with applicable privacy laws.
  • Targeted advertising risk: The deleted language disclosed cross-site tracking and interest-based advertising. If those activities continue without comparable notice and consent, regulatory and litigation exposure may increase.
  • Loss of opt-out functionality: Users may lose a clear way to reject non-essential cookies or change their choices.
  • Increased ambiguity: The deletion does not clarify whether cookies have stopped being used or whether the disclosures and controls were merely removed.
3. Customer Data Used to Train AI Models

No changes relating to AI training are shown.

The deleted text concerns cookies, analytics, device identifiers, advertising, and personalization. It does not state that customer data:

  • May be used to train, fine-tune, or evaluate AI models;
  • May be shared with AI providers for model development;
  • Will be anonymized or de-identified before AI use;
  • Can be excluded from AI training; or
  • Will be deleted from training datasets upon request.

Accordingly, the diff provides no evidence of a new authorization or restriction regarding AI-model training. A separate data-use, terms-of-service, or privacy-policy provision should be reviewed for that issue.

2026-09-26 · Terms of Use

grew 62.5% · Observed by clause.watch

Summary

The diff indicates that approximately 515 words were removed, but it does not identify which provisions were deleted or provide replacement language.

Key Legal Implications

Because the deleted text is not included, it is not possible to determine:

  • Whether customer data may now be used for purposes beyond providing the services.
  • Whether the provider retained or removed rights to use customer data to train, fine-tune, validate, or improve AI models.
  • Whether customer data may be combined with other customers’ data or used in aggregated or de-identified datasets.
  • Whether the provider must obtain consent before using customer data for AI training.
  • Whether customers can opt out of AI training or request deletion of data used for that purpose.
  • Whether confidentiality, security, data-retention, or data-processing restrictions were removed.
  • Whether the provider’s rights to use inputs, outputs, prompts, metadata, or usage analytics changed.
  • Whether liability, indemnity, audit, or compliance obligations were reduced.

AI Training Risk Assessment

No definitive conclusion can be drawn from the supplied diff regarding AI-model training. The notation “[Removed approximately 515 words from the document]” does not reveal whether the removed language:

  • Prohibited AI training;
  • Required customer permission;
  • Permitted training by default;
  • Applied only to anonymized or aggregated data; or
  • Described an opt-out mechanism.

If the deleted provisions contained restrictions on AI training, their removal could materially expand the provider’s ability to use customer data. Conversely, the deletion may have removed permissive language or unrelated provisions.

Recommended Review

Obtain the full before-and-after versions or the actual deleted text. In particular, compare provisions addressing:

1. Customer data ownership and permitted use;

2. AI training, model improvement, and product development;

3. De-identification, aggregation, and anonymization;

4. Data retention and deletion;

5. Confidentiality and security;

6. Subprocessors and third-party model providers; and

7. Customer opt-out, consent, and audit rights.

Until the deleted language is reviewed, the principal risk is uncertainty about whether customer-data protections—including AI-training restrictions—were weakened or removed.

2026-09-26 · Terms of Use

shrank 38.5% · Observed by clause.watch

Summary

The supplied diff only states:

> “Added approximately 515 words to the document”

It does not include the actual added language, deleted language, or replacement text. As a result, the legal and commercial impact cannot be assessed reliably.

AI Training and Customer Data

No conclusions can be drawn about whether the changes:

  • Permit the provider to use customer data to train AI or machine-learning models;
  • Restrict or prohibit such training;
  • Allow use of customer data for model improvement, analytics, benchmarking, or product development;
  • Distinguish between customer content, usage data, metadata, personal data, or anonymized/de-identified data;
  • Permit retention of data after termination;
  • Allow human review or third-party access to data; or
  • Apply different rules to inputs, outputs, prompts, or generated content.

Key Risks That Should Be Checked

The missing text should be reviewed for provisions that:

1. Expand data-use rights beyond providing the contracted services.

2. Authorize AI training using customer content, either expressly or through broad language such as “improve,” “develop,” or “enhance” the services.

3. Permit use of de-identified or aggregated data without clear standards for de-identification or re-identification safeguards.

4. Allow sharing with affiliates, vendors, or model providers.

5. Create ownership or license rights over customer content or AI-generated outputs.

6. Conflict with confidentiality, data-protection, or security obligations.

7. Apply retroactively to previously collected data or continue after termination.

8. Limit opt-out rights, notice obligations, audit rights, or liability for unauthorized use.

Information Needed

Please provide the full diff, including the approximately 515 words that were added and any deleted or replaced language. Without the actual text, it is not possible to identify specific new obligations, rights, or risks.

2026-09-25 · Terms of Use

grew 62.5% · Observed by clause.watch

Summary

The diff states only that approximately 26 words were added, but it does not show the actual added language.

Legal and Commercial Impact
  • The specific legal effect of the changes cannot be determined without seeing the text of the 26 added words.
  • It is not possible to assess whether the additions modify:
  • Customer data ownership or usage rights
  • Confidentiality obligations
  • Data retention or deletion
  • Security or privacy commitments
  • Liability, indemnity, or compliance obligations
  • AI or machine-learning rights
AI Training and Model Use
  • The provided diff does not identify whether customer data may be used to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or otherwise improve AI models.
  • It is also impossible to determine whether the language:
  • Requires customer consent for AI training
  • Permits use of customer content in aggregated or de-identified form
  • Allows human review of customer data
  • Restricts use to providing the services
  • Applies different rules to inputs, outputs, metadata, or usage data
  • Provides an opt-out or deletion mechanism
Required Information

Please provide the actual 26-word addition, using the stated notation—for example:

  • Additions: {new language}
  • Deletions: [removed language]
  • Replacements: [old language]{new language}

Without the underlying text, no reliable legal-risk analysis can be performed.

2026-09-25 · Terms of Use

shrank 38.5% · Observed by clause.watch

No

2026-09-24 · Terms of Use

grew 9.7% · Observed by clause.watch

Summary of Changes

1. New cookie-consent notice and preference center

The website now includes an extensive cookie banner and privacy preference center. Users are presented with options to:

  • Accept All Cookies
  • Reject All Cookies
  • Configure individual cookie categories
  • Confirm or change cookie preferences later

The notice explains that cookies may be used to enhance navigation, analyze site usage, and support marketing.

2. New cookie categories

The added language distinguishes among:

  • Strictly Necessary Cookies — Always active and used for site functionality, security, login, forms, and privacy preferences.
  • Functional Cookies — Used for enhanced functionality and personalization, including services provided by third parties.
  • Performance Cookies — Used to measure traffic and improve website performance. The notice states that collected information is aggregated and does not identify visitors.
  • Targeting Cookies — May be set by advertising partners to assign unique browser or device identifiers, track activity across websites, build interest profiles, and deliver relevant advertising.
3. Privacy and compliance risks
  • Broad consent language: “Accept All Cookies” appears to authorize analytics, personalization, and advertising-related tracking in one action. Depending on applicable law, consent may need to be specific, informed, freely given, and as easy to withdraw as it is to provide.
  • Targeting and cross-site tracking: The targeting-cookie description expressly permits advertising partners to track users across sites and create interest profiles. This may trigger additional notice, consent, opt-out, or “sale/share” obligations under privacy laws.
  • Third-party processing: Functional and targeting cookies may be provided by third parties, but the language does not identify those providers, explain their purposes in detail, or describe data-sharing arrangements.
  • Personal-information treatment: Although performance data is described as aggregated, the notice does not explain the aggregation or de-identification standards. Strictly necessary cookies may process technical or device identifiers, which may constitute personal information under applicable laws.
  • Functionality consequences: Users are warned that rejecting certain categories may impair website features or services. This should not be used to condition essential access on consent to non-essential cookies.
4. AI-model training

No changes expressly address the use of customer or visitor data to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or improve AI models. The added cookie language concerns website cookies, analytics, personalization, and advertising only. It does not grant or restrict any AI-training rights. However, the performance and targeting provisions could permit collection and sharing of behavioral data for analytics or advertising, subject to applicable law and the company’s broader privacy terms.

2026-09-24 · Terms of Use

shrank 8.8% · Observed by clause.watch

Summary of Important Changes

1. Removal of Cookie Notice and Preference Center

The diff removes the entire cookie-consent interface and explanatory notice, including:

  • “Accept All Cookies,” “Reject All,” and cookie-settings controls.
  • The “Privacy Preference Center.”
  • Descriptions of cookie categories:
  • Strictly necessary cookies
  • Functional cookies
  • Performance cookies
  • Targeting cookies
  • Information about cookie purposes, consent choices, and effects of blocking cookies.
  • The cookie-list and consent-management controls.
2. Privacy and Compliance Risks

Removing this content may create significant risks if no replacement disclosure or consent mechanism exists:

  • Reduced transparency: Users may no longer be told what cookies are used, why they are used, or whether third parties place them.
  • Consent deficiencies: The removed text provided mechanisms to accept, reject, or customize non-essential cookies. Its removal could undermine consent requirements under laws such as the GDPR, UK GDPR, ePrivacy rules, and certain U.S. state privacy laws.
  • Targeted advertising risk: The deleted language disclosed that advertising partners could assign identifiers, track activity across websites, build interest profiles, and deliver relevant advertisements. Removing this disclosure without stopping those practices may create a mismatch between actual processing and published notices.
  • Analytics disclosure risk: The removed text stated that performance cookies measure visits, traffic sources, and site usage. Continued analytics activity may require updated notice and, in some jurisdictions, consent.
  • Loss of user controls: Users may lose the ability to withdraw or modify cookie choices, potentially creating regulatory and evidentiary concerns.
3. AI Model Training

No provision in the supplied diff expressly addresses:

  • Use of customer or user data to train AI models.
  • Whether data is used for model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, or product improvement.
  • Opt-in or opt-out rights for AI training.
  • De-identification, retention, or sharing of data for AI purposes.

Accordingly, the diff shows no identifiable change regarding AI model training. However, because the entire cookie and privacy-preference content appears to be deleted, any related disclosures or controls that may have existed elsewhere should be checked to ensure they have not been unintentionally removed.

4. Recommended Review

Confirm whether this is merely a removal of website-interface text or reflects an actual change in data practices. If cookies or tracking continue, provide replacement disclosures and consent controls before deployment.

2026-09-23 · Terms of Use

grew 9.7% · Observed by clause.watch

Summary of Important Changes

1. New cookie-consent disclosure and preference center

The diff adds a substantial cookie notice and cookie-preference interface. It explains that accepting all cookies permits storage of cookies to:

  • Enhance site navigation;
  • Analyze site usage; and
  • Support marketing efforts.

Users are given options to Accept All Cookies, Reject All, or manage settings by cookie category.

2. New cookie categories and purposes

The addition identifies four categories:

  • Strictly Necessary Cookies: Always active and used for site functionality, security, integrity, and technical or device identifiers. The text states these cookies are not used for advertising or marketing.
  • Functional Cookies: Used for enhanced functionality and personalization, including cookies provided by third parties. Blocking them may impair certain services.
  • Performance Cookies: Used to measure traffic, page popularity, and visitor navigation to improve the website. The notice states that collected information is aggregated and does not identify visitors.
  • Targeting Cookies: May be placed by advertising partners and used to assign unique browser or device identifiers, track activity across websites, build interest profiles, and display relevant advertisements elsewhere.

3. New privacy and compliance risks

  • Cross-site tracking and profiling: Targeting cookies expressly permit advertising partners to track users across sites and create interest profiles. This may constitute personal-data processing under privacy laws and may require valid consent, particularly in jurisdictions with strict cookie rules.
  • Third-party access: Functional and targeting cookies may be set by third-party providers or advertising partners. The text does not identify those providers, explain their data-sharing practices, or specify retention periods.
  • Broad “Accept All” consent: Acceptance covers analytics, personalization, and advertising-related cookies together. Depending on applicable law, bundled consent may be challenged if consent must be granular, informed, and freely given.
  • Potential inconsistency: Performance cookies are described as collecting only aggregated, non-identifying information, while other portions refer to tracking activity and unique identifiers. The policy should clearly distinguish anonymized analytics from identifiable or pseudonymous data.
  • Withdrawal and settings: The interface provides settings and a “Reject All” option, but the diff does not explain how users can later withdraw consent or whether previously placed cookies will be deleted.

4. AI-model training

No changes concerning the use of customer data to train AI models are present in this diff. The addition addresses cookies, analytics, advertising, and personalization only. It does not authorize or prohibit using customer content, personal data, prompts, or outputs for AI training.

2026-09-23 · Terms of Use

grew 48.2% · Observed by clause.watch

Summary

The supplied diff does not include the actual contractual language. It only states:

> “Added approximately 515 words to the document”

Accordingly, it is not possible to determine:

  • Which provisions were added, removed, or replaced;
  • Whether the changes alter the parties’ rights or obligations;
  • Whether liability, confidentiality, intellectual property, privacy, security, or termination terms changed; or
  • Whether the customer’s data may be used to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or improve AI models.

AI-Training Review

No specific language addressing AI models or data use is included in the provided diff. Therefore, no conclusion can be reached about whether the contract:

  • Permits training on customer data;
  • Limits training to aggregated, de-identified, or anonymized data;
  • Requires customer consent or provides an opt-out;
  • Allows use of prompts, outputs, metadata, or usage data for model development;
  • Grants the provider rights to retain or reuse customer data after termination; or
  • Allocates ownership, confidentiality, or security responsibilities for AI-generated material.

Information Needed

Please provide the full marked-up text, including:

  • Additions in {braces};
  • Deletions in [brackets]; and
  • Replacements in the format [{deleted text}]{new text}.

Without the actual wording, a substantive legal-risk analysis cannot be performed.

2026-09-21 · Terms of Use

shrank 32.5% · Observed by clause.watch

Summary of Changes

Scope of the Diff

The diff indicates that approximately 515 words were removed, but it does not identify which provisions were deleted or provide the surrounding text. As a result, the specific legal and commercial impact cannot be determined reliably.

Potential Legal and Commercial Risks

Deleting contractual language may:

  • Remove customer protections, warranties, limitations, or procedural requirements.
  • Broaden the provider’s discretion if restrictions or obligations were deleted.
  • Eliminate obligations concerning confidentiality, security, data retention, deletion, or breach notification.
  • Change allocation of liability, including indemnities, damages caps, or exclusions.
  • Remove termination rights, audit rights, service commitments, or compliance obligations.
  • Create ambiguity if definitions or exceptions were deleted while related provisions remain.

The significance depends on whether the deleted language was protective of the customer, restrictive of the provider, or merely duplicative.

AI Training and Use of Customer Data

The supplied diff does not show the deleted text, so it is not possible to determine whether the changes affect:

  • Whether customer data, prompts, outputs, or usage data may be used to train or improve AI models.
  • Whether use is permitted by default or requires the customer’s consent or opt-in.
  • Whether data is de-identified, aggregated, or retained before being used.
  • Whether human reviewers or third-party model providers may access the data.
  • Whether the provider may use customer data after termination.
  • Whether the customer can opt out or request deletion of data used for training.
  • Whether “customer data” excludes telemetry, metadata, feedback, or generated content.

If deleted language previously prohibited or limited AI training, its removal could materially expand the provider’s rights to use customer information. Conversely, deletion of a permission clause could restrict such use. This cannot be resolved from the word-count description alone.

Recommended Follow-Up

Obtain the actual deleted text and compare it with the remaining provisions, especially sections titled:

  • Data Use or Data Processing
  • Confidentiality
  • Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning
  • Service Improvement
  • Feedback and Usage Data
  • Retention and Deletion
  • Third-Party Providers

Until the deleted language is reviewed, the amendment should be treated as potentially material and not assumed to be merely editorial.

2026-09-20 · Terms of Use

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Summary of Important Changes

1. Cookie notice and consent language removed

The diff removes the entire cookie notice and preference-center content, including:

  • “Accept All Cookies,” “Reject All,” and “Cookie Settings” controls.
  • Ability to manage cookie categories individually.
  • Descriptions of:
  • Strictly necessary cookies
  • Functional cookies
  • Performance/analytics cookies
  • Targeting/advertising cookies
  • Explanations of the types of data collected and purposes of processing.
  • Information about third-party advertising partners and cross-site tracking.
  • Statements concerning privacy choices and the effect of blocking cookies.
  • The cookie list and consent-management controls.

No replacement language is shown.

2. Privacy and regulatory risks

Removing this content may create several risks, depending on the jurisdiction and how cookies are actually used:

  • Insufficient disclosure: Users may no longer be told what cookies are used, what information they collect, or why they are used.
  • Consent-record risk: Removing preference controls could prevent users from giving, refusing, or changing consent for non-essential cookies.
  • Targeted advertising risk: The deleted text specifically disclosed unique identifiers, cross-site tracking, interest profiling, and advertising partners. Continued use of those technologies without equivalent disclosure or consent could raise issues under privacy and electronic-marketing laws.
  • Withdrawal-of-consent risk: Users may lose a clear mechanism to revoke or modify prior choices.
  • Transparency and notice inconsistency: Other privacy policies or consent records may no longer match the website’s actual practices.

The impact depends on whether the cookie functionality has also been removed. If the cookies remain active, the legal exposure is greater. If this is only a presentation change and an equivalent notice exists elsewhere, the practical impact may be reduced.

3. Customer data and AI-model training

No changes related to AI or training models are shown.

The deleted text concerns cookies, analytics, advertising, and privacy preferences. It does not expressly authorize or prohibit using customer data, prompts, content, or personal information to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or improve AI models. Accordingly, this diff does not appear to change AI-training rights. Any such terms should be reviewed in the applicable privacy policy, customer agreement, or AI-specific data-processing provisions.

2026-09-19 · Terms of Use

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Summary of the Provided Diff

Overall Change

  • The diff states that approximately 515 words were removed from the document.
  • However, it does not identify which provisions, rights, obligations, or definitions were deleted.

AI Training and Customer Data

  • No specific changes can be determined regarding whether customer data may be used to:
  • Train, fine-tune, or improve AI models;
  • Develop products or services;
  • Create aggregated, anonymized, or derived data;
  • Share data with AI vendors or subprocessors; or
  • Retain customer prompts, outputs, or other usage data for model development.
  • Because the deleted text is not provided, it is impossible to determine whether the removal:
  • Expands or restricts the provider’s rights to use customer data;
  • Removes a prohibition on AI training;
  • Eliminates customer consent or opt-out rights;
  • Changes data ownership or license terms; or
  • Removes confidentiality, security, deletion, or retention protections.

Potential Legal Risks

The deletion of approximately 515 words could be material if it removed provisions concerning:

  • Data-use limitations: Restrictions on using customer content for purposes beyond providing the services.
  • AI model training: Express permission or prohibition relating to training or improving models.
  • Customer control: Opt-out, approval, deletion, or objection rights.
  • Confidentiality: Obligations protecting customer information from disclosure or secondary use.
  • Data protection compliance: Allocation of responsibility for privacy laws and regulatory obligations.
  • Intellectual property: Ownership of customer inputs, outputs, feedback, and derived data.
  • Security and retention: Requirements governing safeguards, storage periods, and deletion.
  • Third-party access: Rights to disclose data to subprocessors, affiliates, or model providers.

Assessment

Based solely on the notation provided, the only definite conclusion is that substantial text was removed. The legal effect—and particularly any change to AI-training rights—cannot be reliably assessed without the actual deleted language or a redline showing the surrounding provisions.

Recommended next step: Provide the specific text removed, especially any sections addressing customer data, content licenses, confidentiality, privacy, subprocessors, model improvement, or artificial intelligence.

2026-09-17 · Terms of Use

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Summary

Key Limitation

The supplied diff states only:

> “Added approximately 515 words to the document”

It does not include the actual added, deleted, or replaced legal language. As a result, it is not possible to identify:

  • The specific contractual changes;
  • New obligations, rights, limitations, or liabilities;
  • Changes to confidentiality, ownership, indemnity, termination, or payment terms; or
  • Any provisions concerning the customer’s data and AI model training.

AI Training and Data Use

No conclusion can be drawn from the supplied information about whether the document now permits or restricts the provider’s use of customer data to:

  • Train, fine-tune, or improve AI or machine-learning models;
  • Create or use aggregated, anonymized, or de-identified data;
  • Retain customer inputs or outputs for model development;
  • Share data with affiliates, subprocessors, or third-party model providers;
  • Use customer data for service improvement, analytics, or product development; or
  • Opt the customer in or out of such activities.

These issues can materially affect confidentiality, intellectual-property ownership, privacy compliance, security risk, and the customer’s control over its data.

Information Needed

Please provide the actual redline text, including the portions shown with:

  • {additions};
  • [deletions]; and
  • []{replacements}.

Once provided, the changes can be analyzed for their legal effect, including any new permissions to use customer data for AI training and any related limitations, safeguards, or customer-consent requirements.

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