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This establishes that using the platform grants the Customer no ownership rights over the platform itself or LangChain's confidential information.
The updated terms introduce a new deployment architecture option (BYOC) alongside existing Cloud and Hybrid options, giving customers more control over infrastructure placement. LangChain's explicit commitment to not use customer data for large language model training now has clear written language in the Terms, whereas the prior version only referenced 'products' generically. However, the expanded non-warranty clause now states the platform is not warranted to be 'accurate' or 'complete,' which broadens the disclaimers of liability. Customers should review which deployment option aligns with their infrastructure and compliance requirements.
View change record →Using the LangSmith Platform does not give you any ownership rights in the platform or in LangChain's confidential information.
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Remove, obscure, or alter any notice of any of our trademarks, or other Intellectual Property appearing on or contained within the Services or on any Wise Materials.
Use of the Services does not give you ownership of any intellectual property rights in any of the content, documents or other materials you access.
"all rights, title, and interest in and to all intellectual property rights in the LangSmith Platform and LangChain's Confidential Information are and will remain owned exclusively by LangChain and its licensors.Excerpt from LangChain's Terms of Service
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This establishes that using the platform grants the Customer no ownership rights over the platform itself or LangChain's confidential information.
Using the LangSmith Platform does not give you any ownership rights in the platform or in LangChain's confidential information.
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