When you upload documents or content to DocuSign, you give DocuSign a license to use, store, and process that content to operate and improve its services.
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This clause establishes DocuSign's operational rights to incorporate user-generated content into service operations, product improvements, and distribution channels without separate compensation or exclusive restrictions. The sublicensable nature permits DocuSign to extend these rights to third parties.
Users should be aware that content submitted to DocuSign, including sensitive legal documents, is subject to a broad usage license. The scope of this license and how it interacts with DocuSign's privacy and data policies warrants review, particularly for business users handling confidential third-party data.
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Where the law allows us to, we may use the content you and other users have posted for training or to help us to improve the way we filter content on our platform.
In accordance with applicable legal requirements, we may use your information to tailor and provide you with content and advertisements.
We may use your personal data to personalize your experience interacting with Content, including what Content we recommend, show, or don't show to you.
"If you Post User Content, unless we indicate otherwise, you grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, and fully sublicensable right to access, view, use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, copy, and display such User Content throughout the world in any form, media, or technology now known or hereafter developed.Excerpt from DocuSign's Terms and Conditions
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This clause establishes DocuSign's operational rights to incorporate user-generated content into service operations, product improvements, and distribution channels without separate compensation or exclusive restrictions. The sublicensable nature permits DocuSign to extend these rights to third parties.
Users should be aware that content submitted to DocuSign, including sensitive legal documents, is subject to a broad usage license. The scope of this license and how it interacts with DocuSign's privacy and data policies warrants review, particularly for business users handling confidential third-party data.
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