NVIDIA NIM Terms of Use

This document is the NVIDIA Software License Agreement governing use of NVIDIA NIM and related enterprise software, establishing the legal basis for access to NVIDIA's AI inference microservices and associated software components. The agreement states that users are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the software solely for authorized purposes, and the terms authorize NVIDIA to collect telemetry, usage data, and diagnostic information from deployed software instances. The agreement includes a broad intellectual property retention clause under which NVIDIA asserts ownership of all software, models, and derivative works, and incorporates an export control compliance obligation on the licensee that is notably specific compared to standard consumer software agreements. The terms engage U.S. export administration regulations, sanctions frameworks administered by OFAC, and data protection frameworks including GDPR and CCPA depending on the deployment geography and user type; compliance exposure is jurisdiction-dependent and will vary for enterprise deployers operating across multiple regulatory environments. Organizations deploying NVIDIA NIM in regulated industries should evaluate whether the telemetry and data collection provisions intersect with sector-specific obligations under HIPAA, financial services data governance requirements, or EU AI Act obligations applicable to high-risk AI system deployments.