“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.”
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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 model (BYOC) that allows customers to maintain their infrastructure while LangChain manages the platform through cloud APIs without direct access to customer data, providing an alternative to cloud-hosted and hybrid options. The terms now explicitly state that LangChain will not use customer data to train large language models, expanding the prior commitment beyond general product improvement. The warranty disclaimer has been revised to state that LangChain does not warrant the platform will be accurate or complete, in addition to existing disclaimers about error-free operation and uninterrupted service.
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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"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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