AI data, training & privacy · Specialist

AI vendor terms

ELI5

The contract and policy governing data use, retention, ownership, training and responsibility for an AI service.

Used in conversation

“Legal needs to review the AI vendor terms before anyone uploads confidential material.”

Pitch context

You may encounter “AI vendor terms” in accessibility, localisation, ethics & ai conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains access, language adaptation, care, provenance and emerging synthetic-media responsibilities.

Caution

Meaning and consequences may change by contract, collective agreement, territory or law. This entry is orientation, not legal advice.

Sources & evidence · 8

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.