You keep ownership of your data and content, but you give Calendly a license to use that data as needed to run the service for you. Calendly owns everything about the platform itself.
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The license granted to Calendly over customer data is scoped to service provision, which provides meaningful protection, but the scope of 'necessary to provide the Services' may encompass a range of data processing activities.
License scope expanded from solely providing Services to include 'internal purposes' such as quality control, security, spam/fraud detection, and troubleshooting; license now includes sublicensing rights and distribution capabilities.
View full change record →Customers retain ownership of their scheduling data and content, and the license they grant Calendly is limited to what is needed to operate the service, which is a customer-favorable framing relative to broader data license approaches used by some platforms.
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"As between the parties, Customer retains all right, title, and interest in and to Customer Data. Calendly retains all right, title, and interest in and to the Services, including all intellectual property rights therein. Customer grants Calendly a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, and process Customer Data solely to the extent necessary to provide the Services to Customer.Excerpt from Calendly's Terms of Use
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The data ownership and licensing framework is broadly consistent with GDPR's controller-processor model, where the customer retains control over data and the processor acts under instruction.
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The license granted to Calendly over customer data is scoped to service provision, which provides meaningful protection, but the scope of 'necessary to provide the Services' may encompass a range of data processing activities.
Customers retain ownership of their scheduling data and content, and the license they grant Calendly is limited to what is needed to operate the service, which is a customer-favorable framing relative to broader data license approaches used by some platforms.
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