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Privacy Policy

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Privacy Policy Overview

Company: MongoDB, Inc.

Last revised: November 4, 2025

1. Data Collection & Usage

MongoDB collects both Personal Data and Anonymous Data when you use its website, products, accounts, chat tools, events, surveys, and support channels.

Data that may be collected
  • Identity and contact information: name, alias, email, postal address, account name, IP address, and other online identifiers.
  • Professional information: job title, employer, resume, and related employment details.
  • Payment and transaction information: credit-card, billing, shipping details, and records of products purchased or considered.
  • Technical and usage data: browser and operating system, IP address, product versions, URLs visited, search and browsing activity, device information, and timestamps.
  • Account content: files and messages stored in your account.
  • Communications: email contents, feedback, support requests, and potentially recorded/reviewed online chats.
  • Survey, demographic, and event information.
  • Information about others: if you invite someone, MongoDB collects that person’s name and email address.

MongoDB states that it does not knowingly collect children’s data and does not collect special-category data such as health, biometric, political, religious, or sexual-orientation information.

Purposes

Data may be used to:

  • Create and administer accounts and provide products.
  • Process payments and deliver support.
  • Communicate about services, terms, privacy policies, surveys, reviews, and marketing.
  • Operate, secure, troubleshoot, and improve its website and products.
  • Conduct fraud prevention, sanctions screening, and “Know Your Customer” checks.
  • Analyze usage and personalize advertising and recommendations.
  • Operate optional AI chatbots and assistants, including processing chatbot inputs and outputs that may contain personal data.
  • Create “Anonymous Data” for analytics, product improvement, navigation, and marketing.

Risk: “Anonymous Data” may be shared or used at MongoDB’s discretion, although the policy says it is not linked to identifiable individuals. Users should avoid placing sensitive information in public posts, support communications, or AI chatbot prompts unless necessary.

2. User Rights

Depending on applicable law, users may request to:

  • Know how data is collected, used, and shared.
  • Access a copy of their data.
  • Correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
  • Delete data, subject to legal and operational exceptions.
  • Object to processing, particularly legitimate-interest processing or direct marketing.
  • Restrict processing.
  • Receive data in a portable, machine-readable format.
  • Withdraw consent where processing relies on consent.
  • Opt out of certain U.S. “sharing” for targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising.

Requests may be submitted through the listed webform, by phone at 1-866-692-1371, or through the DPO contact route. MongoDB may verify identity, require authorization documents for agents, charge reasonable fees for excessive requests, or refuse clearly unfounded requests. It generally aims to respond within one month, subject to extensions permitted by law.

3. Third-Party Sharing

MongoDB may disclose data to:

  • Affiliates under common ownership.
  • Service providers handling hosting, payments, support, analytics, account administration, marketing, synchronization, quality testing, and fraud/KYC services.
  • Advertising networks and social-media companies for targeted advertising, using identifiers, IP addresses, and technical/device data.
  • Event sponsors, where attendees have opted in to receive direct marketing.
  • Business buyers or sellers during a merger, acquisition, or asset sale.
  • Government or other parties when legally required or to protect rights, property, users, or against fraud.

Third-party companies’ own privacy policies may apply. MongoDB states it does not “sell” personal information under U.S. state-law definitions, but it does disclose information for targeted advertising, which may legally count as “sharing.”

4. AI/ML Training

The policy expressly covers operation of MongoDB’s AI chatbots and assistants and permits processing of chatbot inputs and outputs. However, it does not clearly state whether user data or chatbot conversations are used to train AI or machine-learning models. Users should not assume that AI interactions are excluded from product improvement or analytics; review any product-specific notice or AI terms before entering confidential information.

5. Key User Obligations and Restrictions

  • Protect your account password and do not disclose it to unauthorized people.
  • You are responsible for keeping your email address current; notices sent to an invalid address may still be effective.
  • Public message-board postings are visible to other users.
  • Cookies may be disabled, but some site functions may not work properly.
  • Information sent over the internet is transmitted at your own risk.
  • If inviting another person, ensure you have an appropriate basis to provide their contact information.
  • Continued use after policy changes constitutes acknowledgement and acceptance.

6. Liability & Disputes

MongoDB says it uses industry-standard security measures but does not guarantee internet transmission security. The policy does not provide a detailed general limitation of liability or indemnity clause.

Users should first contact MongoDB about complaints. If unresolved, disputes are to be settled exclusively under American Arbitration Association rules. The policy does not specify the arbitration location, governing law, cost allocation, or whether class proceedings are waived; those issues may appear in other applicable terms.

7. Changes

For substantial changes to data use, MongoDB may email the last address provided or post notice on its website. Changes generally take effect 30 days after email dispatch or website posting, whichever is earlier; they are immediate for new users. Continued use means acceptance. Users who object must deactivate their account before the effective date.

Terms of Use

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Change history

2026-09-06 · Privacy Policy

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

2026-09-05 · Privacy Policy

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Summary of Important Changes

1. AI-related data processing

  • The revised policy expressly states that MongoDB may process “input and output from chatbot”, which may contain personal data, to operate AI chatbots and assistants on MongoDB properties.
  • The stated legal basis is MongoDB’s legitimate interests. Interactions are described as optional, but the policy does not explain:
  • Whether chatbot inputs or outputs are retained;
  • Whether they are reviewed by humans;
  • Which AI providers or service providers receive them;
  • Whether they are used to improve, fine-tune, or train AI models;
  • Whether customer prompts, code, documents, or outputs are isolated from model-training datasets; or
  • How users can opt out of AI-related processing separately from avoiding the chatbot.
  • The policy permits disclosures to affiliates and service providers for operating the chatbots. This creates a risk that AI vendors or other processors may access submitted content, subject to contracts that are not described in this policy.
  • The policy separately permits MongoDB to create and use “Anonymous Data” from personal data and to disclose it to third-party companies at MongoDB’s discretion. Although the policy does not expressly connect this provision to AI training, it could potentially be used to support analytics, product development, or model-development activities if the data is considered sufficiently anonymized.
  • There is no express commitment that customer data will not be used to train general-purpose or third-party AI models. Customers handling confidential information, source code, regulated data, or trade secrets should seek contractual clarification.

2. Broader use and disclosure provisions

  • The policy continues to authorize use of personal data for analytics, improving Products and customer experiences, targeted advertising, marketing, recommendations, security, and administration.
  • It expressly recognizes sharing of identifiers and technical data for cross-context behavioral advertising, potentially qualifying as “sharing” under U.S. state privacy laws, even though MongoDB states that it does not “sell” personal information.
  • The categories of data used for online chat now expressly include identifiers, technical data, internet/electronic activity, profile data, and chatbot inputs and outputs.

3. U.S. privacy compliance and rights

  • The revised text more clearly incorporates the California Consumer Privacy Act/California Privacy Rights Act and other U.S. state privacy laws.
  • It adds or clarifies rights-request channels, including privacy@mongodb.com, telephone submission, and a webform.
  • It adds accessibility language and states that MongoDB does not knowingly collect children’s data.

4. Other notable changes and risks

  • The policy is reorganized and appears to correct formatting and navigation issues, but the supplied diff contains substantial website-content noise, making verification of the final operative text important.
  • A new legal contact address, legal@mongodb.com, is provided for policy complaints.
  • The policy remains subject to occasional unilateral revision, creating a risk that processing practices may change without negotiated customer consent.

Key action: Obtain written confirmation on whether customer data—including prompts, outputs, logs, and support content—is used for AI training or model improvement, and require an explicit contractual prohibition if that use is unacceptable.

2026-09-04 · Privacy Policy

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Summary

The provided diff does not include the actual amended legal language. It only states that approximately 159 words were added.

AI Training and Data-Use Changes

  • No conclusions can be drawn about whether customer data may be used to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or improve AI models.
  • It is also impossible to assess whether the changes address:
  • Customer consent or opt-out rights;
  • Use of customer content, prompts, inputs, outputs, or personal information;
  • Human review or data labeling;
  • Retention and deletion of data;
  • Sharing with affiliates, vendors, or model providers;
  • Restrictions on using confidential information for training; or
  • Ownership and licensing of customer data and AI-generated outputs.

Other Legal Risks

The substantive additions are not shown, so no reliable assessment can be made of changes involving confidentiality, intellectual property, security, privacy, indemnities, liability, warranties, or termination rights.

Please provide the full diff, including the text within {}, [], and []{}, so the changes and associated legal risks can be analyzed.

2026-09-01 · Privacy Policy

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Key Changes and Risks

1. AI chatbot and assistant data processing — material change

  • The revised policy expressly adds processing to “operate our AI chatbots and assistants on MongoDB properties.”
  • The listed data includes:
  • Identifiers;
  • Technical data;
  • Internet/electronic network activity;
  • Profile data; and
  • Chatbot inputs and outputs, which may contain personal data.
  • MongoDB states that this processing is based on its legitimate interests and that chatbot interaction is entirely optional.
  • Affiliates and service providers are identified as recipients.
Risk assessment
  • This is the clearest AI-related expansion. Customer or user prompts and generated outputs may contain confidential, personal, or proprietary information.
  • The diff does not expressly say that chatbot inputs or outputs will, or will not, be used to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or improve AI models.
  • It also does not specify:
  • Whether data is retained after the interaction;
  • Whether inputs are de-identified before use;
  • Whether third-party AI providers may use the data for their own model training;
  • Whether enterprise/customer data is segregated from public website data; or
  • Whether users can opt out of model-development uses separately from opting out of chatbot interaction.
  • Accordingly, the policy should not be read as providing a clear “no training” commitment. Customers should seek contractual clarification, particularly for confidential or regulated data.

2. Broader analytics and improvement purposes

The policy continues to permit use of Personal Data for analytics and to improve the website, Products, marketing, customer relationships, and user experiences. Affiliates, service providers, and third parties may receive data for these purposes.

Risk: These broad purposes could potentially encompass AI-system evaluation or improvement unless restricted elsewhere. The diff does not establish a specific limitation preventing such use.

3. Anonymous Data

MongoDB may create Anonymous Data from Personal Data by removing information such as identifying details, and may use and disclose Anonymous Data to Third Party Companies “in our discretion.”

Risk: The anonymization standard is not detailed. If data is merely pseudonymized rather than truly anonymous, re-identification or use in analytics/model development may remain possible.

4. U.S. privacy disclosures and rights

  • The policy now directs U.S. individuals to a separate U.S. State Data Privacy Notice.
  • It adds or clarifies rights to know, access, correct, delete, restrict, object, transfer data, withdraw consent, and opt out of certain sharing.
  • Contact details are updated to privacy@mongodb.com, telephone 1-866-692-1371, and a webform.
  • The policy clarifies that MongoDB does not “sell” personal information but may “share” it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

5. Other changes

  • A new accessibility section is added.
  • The policy states that it supplements, rather than overrides, other notices.
  • Much of the apparent diff consists of website navigation, formatting, punctuation, and renumbering changes rather than substantive legal amendments.

2026-08-26 · Privacy Policy

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Summary

The provided diff does not include the actual added or removed legal language. It only states:

> “Added approximately 160 words to the document”

Accordingly, it is not possible to identify the substantive legal changes, including any changes concerning:

  • Whether customer data may be used to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or improve AI models
  • Whether such use requires customer consent or is automatic
  • Whether customer data is aggregated, anonymized, or de-identified before use
  • Whether customer prompts, inputs, outputs, or personal information are included
  • Whether the provider may share data with affiliates, vendors, or model providers
  • Data-retention and deletion periods
  • Opt-out rights or controls
  • Ownership of customer data, model inputs, outputs, or resulting models
  • Confidentiality, security, or regulatory obligations
  • Liability or indemnification related to AI training

Risk Assessment

No specific new legal risks can be assessed from the information provided. The statement that approximately 160 words were added does not reveal whether the additions expand the provider’s rights or impose additional obligations on the customer.

Required Information

Please provide the full diff containing the added language, using the stated notation:

  • {new text}
  • [deleted text]
  • []{replacement text}

The substantive wording is necessary to determine whether customer data may be used for AI training and whether the change creates new consent, confidentiality, ownership, privacy, or liability risks.

2026-08-26 · Privacy Policy

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Summary

The supplied diff only states that approximately 160 words were added. It does not include the actual added language or identify any deletions or replacements.

AI Training and Data-Use Changes

  • Cannot be determined from the provided information.
  • The diff does not show whether the added text:
  • Permits the provider to use customer data, content, prompts, outputs, or metadata to train or improve AI models;
  • Limits such use to de-identified, aggregated, or anonymized data;
  • Requires the customer’s consent or provides an opt-out;
  • Allows use by affiliates, subcontractors, or third-party AI providers;
  • Grants the provider ownership or broad licensing rights over customer data or outputs;
  • Applies the permission to data submitted before the amendment;
  • Allows retention of data for model training after termination; or
  • Imposes confidentiality, security, deletion, or compliance obligations concerning training data.

Other Legal Risks

No other contractual changes can be evaluated because the actual revised wording is missing. In particular, it is not possible to assess changes to:

  • Liability and indemnification;
  • Confidentiality and data-protection obligations;
  • Intellectual-property ownership;
  • Service suspension or termination rights;
  • Warranties and disclaimers;
  • Audit or regulatory-access rights; or
  • Governing law and dispute resolution.

Information Needed

Please provide the actual text of the additions, deletions, and replacements. Without the underlying language, any assessment of legal effect or AI-training permissions would be speculative.

2026-08-25 · Terms of Use

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

2026-08-25 · Terms of Use

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Summary of Important Changes

1. Major restructuring and modernization

The diff substantially replaces the prior Terms of Use presentation with a new MongoDB website structure focused on:

  • AI agents and “AI-ready” platforms
  • Vector Search and generative AI applications
  • Database, deployment, and multi-cloud services
  • MongoDB Atlas, Enterprise, Community Edition, and related products
  • Educational, community, partner, and investor resources

Much of the apparent change is website navigation and marketing content rather than substantive legal language. However, the new presentation may make it less clear which terms apply to which products or services.

2. Changes to amendment and acceptance provisions

The amendment provision is retained but reformatted and clarified. It continues to state that MongoDB may modify all or part of the Terms of Use:

  • “from time to time”
  • “without notice”
  • by publishing updated terms
  • with continued website use constituting binding acceptance

Users who no longer accept the terms must immediately stop using the website.

Risk

This remains a highly unilateral change mechanism. Customers may become bound by revised terms without individualized notice, signature, or affirmative consent. Businesses should consider monitoring the posted terms and preserving dated copies.

3. Intellectual-property and trademark language

The revised text reorganizes and expands the intellectual-property provisions. It states that:

  • Website content may be owned by MongoDB or third parties.
  • MongoDB may have obtained permission to make third-party content available.
  • Trademarks, logos, and service marks may not be used without prior written consent from MongoDB or the applicable third-party owner.
  • Website content may generally be downloaded, printed, or displayed only subject to conditions including intact copyright notices, no alteration, personal/educational/non-commercial use, and no redistribution or copying to other media.
Risk

The revised language appears to narrow or qualify permitted copying and use of website materials. Commercial, automated, or redistribution-related uses may require separate written permission.

4. Customer-submitted content

The diff retains a broad license for content submitted to MongoDB, described as perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive. MongoDB also receives protection against claims arising from submitted content, including attorneys’ fees.

Risk

The license is broad and does not appear limited by purpose, duration, deletion, confidentiality, or use only to provide the website. Customers should avoid submitting confidential, proprietary, regulated, or personal information unless a separate agreement governs it.

5. AI-model training and use of customer data

No express provision in the supplied diff states that customer data will be used to train AI models, nor does it expressly prohibit such use.

The additions introduce prominent AI-related marketing references, including “AI agents,” “generative AI,” “AI-ready platform,” and “Vector Search,” but these are not themselves authorization language.

Important residual risk

Because the broad customer-content license remains and is not expressly limited to service delivery, it may create ambiguity about whether submitted content could be used for analytics, product improvement, or AI development. The diff should not be read as providing a clear “no training” commitment. A separate product agreement, privacy policy, or AI/data-use policy may contain the controlling language.

2026-08-24 · Terms of Use

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Analysis

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

> “Added approximately 237 words to the document”

Without the added text—and any corresponding deleted or replaced text—it is not possible to determine:

  • What contractual obligations or rights changed
  • Whether liability, indemnity, confidentiality, or termination provisions were modified
  • Whether customer data may be used for artificial intelligence or machine-learning purposes
  • Whether data may be used to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or improve models
  • Whether the customer’s data may be shared with affiliates, vendors, or third parties
  • Whether data is anonymized, aggregated, retained, or deleted
  • Whether the customer has any opt-out, consent, audit, or deletion rights

AI-Training Issues to Check

Please provide the actual 237-word addition and any marked deletions or replacements. The review should specifically identify whether the language:

1. Authorizes AI training using customer content, prompts, outputs, metadata, or usage data.

2. Applies automatically or requires the customer’s express consent or opt-in.

3. Covers identifiable or confidential information, or only de-identified/aggregated data.

4. Allows sharing with model providers, subcontractors, affiliates, or other third parties.

5. Permits commercial reuse of customer data or derived models.

6. Provides an opt-out or deletion mechanism, including whether it applies retroactively.

7. Overrides confidentiality, data-protection, or purpose-limitation restrictions elsewhere in the agreement.

8. Specifies retention and security controls for data used in training.

9. Allocates responsibility and liability for misuse, infringement, privacy violations, or model outputs.

Required Information

Please resend the diff with the actual text, for example:

  • Additions enclosed in {braces}
  • Deletions enclosed in [brackets]
  • Replacements shown as [{old text}]{new text}

A substantive legal-risk analysis cannot be completed from the word-count notice alone.

2026-08-23 · Terms of Use

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Summary

The diff does not include the text of the approximately 237 added words. It only indicates that new language was added. As a result, the specific legal changes and risks cannot be reliably analyzed.

AI Training and Customer Data

  • No conclusions can be drawn about whether the customer’s data may be used to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or improve AI models.
  • It is also impossible to determine whether the new language:
  • Requires customer consent for AI training;
  • Permits use of customer content by default or on an opt-out basis;
  • Limits training to anonymized, aggregated, or de-identified data;
  • Allows use of personal data, confidential information, prompts, outputs, or usage metadata;
  • Gives the provider ownership or a broad license over customer data;
  • Allows sharing of data with affiliates, subprocessors, or third-party AI providers;
  • Applies the policy retroactively to previously collected data; or
  • Provides deletion, exclusion, or audit rights.

Other Potentially Important Issues

The missing additions may also affect:

  • Confidentiality and data-security obligations;
  • Intellectual-property ownership and rights in inputs or outputs;
  • Privacy-law compliance and data-processing roles;
  • Retention and deletion periods;
  • Liability, indemnification, and limitations of liability;
  • Provider rights to modify services or terms;
  • Customer termination and transition rights; and
  • Whether obligations apply to affiliates, contractors, or subprocessors.

Required Information

Please provide the actual 237-word addition, including any surrounding text showing where it was inserted. Without the added language, a legal-risk assessment—particularly concerning AI-model training—would be speculative.

2026-08-22 · Privacy Policy

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Summary of Important Changes

1. AI and Customer Data

  • New stated purpose for processing chatbot data: MongoDB may process data to “operate our AI chatbots and assistants on MongoDB properties.”
  • The listed data categories include:
  • Identifiers
  • Technical data
  • Internet/electronic network activity
  • Profile information
  • Chatbot inputs and outputs, which may contain personal data
  • The stated legal basis is MongoDB’s legitimate interests. Chatbot use is described as optional.
  • No express statement authorizes using customer data to train, fine-tune, or improve AI models. The change also does not expressly prohibit such use. Because chatbot inputs and outputs may contain personal data, the absence of a specific training restriction leaves some uncertainty about whether data could later be used for model development under broader purposes such as analytics, product improvement, or creation of anonymous data.
  • MongoDB may share personal data, including potentially chatbot-related data, with affiliates, service providers, and third parties as described in the policy. The scope and contractual limits applicable to AI providers are not specified in this diff.
  • MongoDB may create and use “Anonymous Data” from Personal Data at its discretion by removing identifying information. The policy does not add detailed standards addressing re-identification risk, model memorization, or whether derived datasets may be used for AI training.

Risk: Customers seeking a clear “no training on customer data” commitment do not receive one. They should seek contractual confirmation addressing training, fine-tuning, retention, human review, third-party model providers, and deletion from AI systems.

2. Broader and Clarified Privacy Coverage

  • The policy is reorganized and more clearly applies to Personal Data collected through:
  • MongoDB.com
  • MongoDB products
  • MongoDB services
  • The opening language now more directly explains how MongoDB uses data and how applicable law protects individuals.
  • The policy expressly states that the Products are not intended for children and that MongoDB does not knowingly collect children’s data.
  • The prior reference to a separate U.S. State Data Privacy Notice is retained and repositioned as supplemental rather than overridden by this policy.

3. U.S. Privacy Rights and Contacts

  • The policy adds or clarifies rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to, transfer, or opt out of certain data sharing.
  • A specific DPO contact is provided: privacy@mongodb.com, together with a phone number and deletion-request webform.
  • The CCPA/U.S. state privacy section is updated to describe disclosure, retention, sale, and sharing practices. MongoDB states it does not “sell” personal information but may engage in “sharing” for cross-context behavioral advertising.

4. Other Changes

  • The policy adds more detailed processing purposes, including analytics, targeted advertising, recommendations, fraud prevention, and customer relationship management.
  • Accessibility commitments and related contact information are added.
  • Formatting and numbering are substantially reorganized, apparently to reflect a new website structure.

2026-08-21 · Terms of Use

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Summary of Important Changes

1. No apparent AI-training or customer-data-use change

  • The diff does not contain an express provision authorizing MongoDB to use customer data, submitted content, prompts, inputs, outputs, or usage data to train, fine-tune, or improve AI models.
  • References to AI appear primarily in marketing/navigation text, such as “AI agents,” “gen AI,” and “AI-ready platform.” These references do not themselves create a data-use right.
  • The existing submitted-Content license appears to remain broadly intact: users grant MongoDB a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to submitted content. However, the excerpt does not show the complete scope or permitted purposes of that license. The full clause should be reviewed to confirm whether “improvement,” analytics, or model training is included.
  • Because the document is heavily affected by apparent website-navigation text insertion, the diff may not reliably show all substantive changes. The current privacy policy and product/service terms should be checked separately for AI-training provisions.

2. Terms may be changed without notice

The revised language expressly states that MongoDB may modify all or part of the Terms of Use:

> “from time to time without notice to you”

It also states that continued use after publication constitutes binding acceptance of the updated Terms. This creates a significant customer risk because:

  • No direct notice is required.
  • Customers must monitor the website themselves.
  • Continued access—even without affirmative acceptance—may bind the user to materially different terms.
  • The customer’s remedy for disagreement is to stop using the website.

3. Website-use terms are repositioned and expanded

The revised text consolidates or relocates the Terms of Use, including acceptance, trademark, copyright, software-use, liability, privacy, and jurisdiction provisions. Much of the change appears editorial or caused by navigation content rather than a deliberate contractual revision. Nevertheless, the revised presentation may make it harder to determine which text forms the operative agreement.

4. Intellectual-property and trademark restrictions

The revised language clarifies that:

  • Trademarks, logos, and service marks belong to MongoDB or third parties.
  • Use requires prior written consent from MongoDB or the applicable third-party owner.
  • Website content may be downloaded or printed only for personal, educational, and non-commercial use, without alteration or redistribution.

This may narrow practical rights for commercial users, including copying website materials into internal or external business materials.

5. Liability and disclaimers remain strongly vendor-favorable

The “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” disclaimer and aggregate-liability limitation remain. These provisions continue to place substantial operational and legal risk on the user, including for reliance on website content or software.

Recommended actions

  • Review the complete Content license and Privacy Policy for any AI-training or model-improvement language.
  • Preserve a copy of the applicable Terms because MongoDB may change them without notice.
  • Avoid submitting confidential, regulated, or personal data through website features unless separately protected by applicable product agreements.

2026-08-20 · Terms of Use

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Summary

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

> “Added approximately 237 words to the document”

Without the specific added, deleted, or replaced terms, it is not possible to identify:

  • Changes to the parties’ rights or obligations
  • New liability, indemnity, confidentiality, or security risks
  • Changes to data ownership or permitted uses
  • Whether customer data may be used to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or improve AI models
  • Whether data is anonymized, aggregated, retained, shared with third parties, or transferred internationally
  • Any opt-out, consent, deletion, audit, or restriction rights

AI-Training Review

No conclusion can be reached regarding AI-model training because the relevant language is not provided. The actual additions should be reviewed for terms such as:

  • “train,” “fine-tune,” “improve,” “develop,” or “evaluate” models
  • “customer data,” “inputs,” “prompts,” “outputs,” or “usage data”
  • Rights to use data in “de-identified,” “aggregated,” or “匿名ized” form
  • Perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, or sublicensable licenses
  • Data retention after termination
  • Sharing with affiliates, vendors, or model providers
  • Customer consent or opt-out mechanisms
  • Commitments to delete data or exclude it from training

Information Needed

Please provide the full diff, including the text shown in {additions}, [deletions], and []{replacements}. Once provided, the changes can be analyzed for legal effect and risk, particularly with respect to customer-data use in AI training.

2026-08-20 · Terms of Use

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Summary of Important Changes and Risks

1. Major Website and Terms Reorganization

The diff appears to replace much of the former Terms of Use page with updated website navigation, product marketing, and resource links. The substantive Terms are reorganized rather than comprehensively rewritten.

Risk: Because the diff contains substantial page-content replacement, it may be difficult to determine which legal provisions remain operative. The published “latest version” is stated to constitute binding acceptance, increasing the importance of preserving and reviewing the complete final document.

2. Continued Unilateral Modification Right

The Terms continue to state that MongoDB may modify all or part of the Terms “from time to time without notice”. The revised language adds that users should check back frequently and that continued use after publication constitutes binding acceptance of the updated Terms.

Risk: Customers may become bound by material changes without individualized notice or an affirmative click-through. This creates uncertainty regarding which version governs a particular use or transaction and may be problematic for customers requiring formal change-control procedures.

3. Clearer Termination-by-Discontinuance Language

The revised Terms expressly state that if the Terms are no longer acceptable, the user should immediately cease all use of the website.

Risk: This does not appear to create a new monetary obligation, but it reinforces MongoDB’s position that continued access constitutes acceptance and may make continued use after a disputed amendment harder to defend.

4. Intellectual Property and Trademark Provisions

The revised text:

  • Clarifies that trademarks, logos, and service marks belong to MongoDB or third parties.
  • Requires prior written consent to use those Marks.
  • Retains restrictions against copying, redistributing, or reproducing website content without permission.
  • Recasts limited copying, downloading, and printing rights as primarily personal, educational, and non-commercial.
  • States that MongoDB owns or has permission to use website content.

Risk: Commercial users, including customers using website materials in training, documentation, demonstrations, or internal AI systems, may have less flexibility unless they obtain permission. The revised wording should be checked against any separate license or customer agreement.

5. User-Submitted Content License

The diff retains a broad license for content submitted to MongoDB: perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive.

Risk: This license may permit extensive use of submitted content. The excerpt does not clarify whether the license permits use for service improvement, analytics, or artificial-intelligence training, nor does it provide deletion, opt-out, confidentiality, or model-output protections.

6. AI Training and Customer Data

The diff adds or emphasizes AI-related marketing, including “AI agents,” “gen AI,” “AI-ready platform,” and “Artificial Intelligence” offerings. However, the provided diff does not expressly add a clause authorizing MongoDB to use customer data or submitted content to train AI models.

Accordingly:

  • No clear new AI-training permission is identifiable in this diff.
  • No express prohibition on using customer data for AI training is added.
  • The existing broad submitted-content license could create ambiguity if customer data is submitted through the website.
  • The Terms do not, in the excerpt, distinguish customer data from website feedback or publicly submitted content.

Recommended action: Confirm the complete current Terms, Privacy Policy, product terms, and any data-processing or enterprise agreement for an explicit position on model training, service improvement, retention, anonymization, human review, and opt-out rights.

2026-08-18 · Terms of Use

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Summary

The provided diff does not include the actual added contract language. It only states:

> “Added approximately 241 words to the document”

Accordingly, it is not possible to determine what legal terms changed or whether the additions create new risks.

AI Training and Customer Data

  • No language addressing AI models, machine learning, training, prompts, inputs, outputs, data retention, or data sharing is included in the diff.
  • It is therefore impossible to determine whether:
  • Customer data may be used to train or improve AI models;
  • Data may be anonymized, aggregated, or combined with other customers’ data;
  • Customer data may be reviewed by humans or shared with AI providers;
  • Customer content may be retained after termination;
  • The provider gives any opt-out or deletion rights; or
  • The provider claims ownership or broad usage rights over customer inputs or generated outputs.

Other Legal Risks

No assessment can be made of changes concerning:

  • Confidentiality and permitted disclosures;
  • Intellectual property ownership or licensing;
  • Data security and breach obligations;
  • Privacy-law compliance;
  • Subprocessors or third-party service providers;
  • Warranties, indemnities, or limitations of liability;
  • Suspension, termination, or data deletion;
  • Fees, renewals, or other commercial obligations.

Required Information

Please provide the actual 241 words added to the document, together with any surrounding provisions needed to understand them. The additions should be shown using the stated markup conventions. Only then can the legal impact and any AI-training-related risks be reliably analyzed.

2025-11-04 · Privacy Policy

Date stated by the publisher in the document

The publisher records this document as revised on this date (“revised on 4 November, 2025”).

Between 2023-05-31 and 2024-11-26 · Terms of Use

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Structured Summary of Important Changes

1. Terms-of-use notice and acceptance
  • The revised text restores or adds a conventional notice stating that users must read the Terms of Use before using the website.
  • Continued use after the Terms are published is expressly stated to constitute binding acceptance.
  • MongoDB may modify all or part of the Terms from time to time without notice. Users are directed to check back regularly.
  • If the revised Terms become unacceptable, users must immediately stop using the website.

Risk: The combination of unilateral changes, no individual notice, and acceptance through continued use increases the risk that users will be bound by material changes without actual awareness. Businesses should monitor the posted Terms and retain dated copies.

2. Broader website and product references

The revised text adds extensive references to MongoDB products, services, developer resources, AI, generative AI, vector search, AI-ready platforms, and related offerings. These additions appear primarily to reflect a redesigned website rather than substantive customer-contract terms.

Risk: The diff is heavily affected by website-navigation and content-extraction changes. It is difficult to determine the precise legal document structure or whether some language is intended to apply to a specific product or service. The final published Terms should be reviewed in a clean, consolidated form.

3. Intellectual-property and trademark provisions
  • The revised language clarifies that trademarks, logos, and service marks belong to MongoDB or third parties.
  • Use of those Marks requires prior written consent from MongoDB or the applicable third-party owner.
  • Copyright language is reorganized and clarifies that MongoDB owns or has permission to use website content.
  • The limited permission to display, download, and print website pages is conditioned on preserving copyright notices, not altering information, using the content only for personal, educational, and non-commercial purposes, and not redistributing or copying it to other media.
  • Software is described as copyrighted work governed by the applicable end-user license agreement.

Risk: Commercial users may have less implied permission to reuse or distribute website materials, including AI-related documentation, examples, or other content.

4. User-submitted content and customer data

The revised text retains or clarifies a provision covering materials submitted to MongoDB, including images, videos, profiles, works of authorship, and other materials (“Content”). Users grant MongoDB a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to that Content. The user also appears to provide an indemnity for claims, losses, liabilities, and expenses arising from submitted Content.

Risk: This is a broad, potentially indefinite license. It may permit MongoDB to use submitted materials after the user stops using the website and without further payment. Users should avoid submitting confidential, personal, regulated, or proprietary information unless the separate privacy policy or service agreement clearly limits that license.

5. AI-model training
  • The diff adds or references AI, generative AI, vector search, and AI-ready products.
  • No express provision was identified stating that customer data, submitted Content, prompts, outputs, or usage data may be used to train, fine-tune, or improve AI models.
  • Conversely, the broad license for user-submitted Content is not expressly limited to website operation and does not expressly exclude AI training.

Key uncertainty/risk: Although the diff does not affirmatively authorize AI training, the broad Content license could create ambiguity about whether submitted materials may be used for model development or service improvement. This should be clarified in the applicable privacy policy, product terms, or data-processing agreement, preferably with an explicit no-training commitment or an opt-in/opt-out mechanism.

Between 2013-09-20 and 2020-10-19 · Privacy Policy

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