Runway collects everything you submit through the service including your text prompts, uploaded images, videos, audio, messages, and AI-generated outputs, along with detailed metadata about when, where, and how that content was created or edited. This includes content pulled in from third-party apps you connect to Runway.
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The provision establishes Runway's collection authority over both primary user inputs and outputs (including AI-generated content) along with comprehensive metadata, which determines what information the service captures and retains during user operations.
Users who input proprietary business content, personally sensitive material, or third-party copyrighted content as prompts or uploads into Runway's tools should be aware that the policy states this content, together with geographic metadata and editing history, is collected by Runway; enterprise users and professional creators handling sensitive client material should evaluate this against their own confidentiality obligations.
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"User content, such as prompts, photos, images, music, videos, audio, screen sharing, comments, questions, messages, works of authorship, and other content or information that you, or third parties acting on your behalf, input, generate, transmit, upload, or submit to us as part of a contest or live event, or otherwise make available on or through the Service, including content or information from third party applications you choose to connect with our Services and transcripts and recordings generated through the Service, as well as associated metadata. Metadata includes information on how, when, where and by whom a piece of content was collected and how that content has been formatted or edited. Metadata also includes information that users can add or can have added to their content, such as keywords, geographical or location information, and other similar data.Excerpt from Runway's Privacy Policy
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision implicates the GDPR and UK GDPR regarding the lawful basis for processing personal data contained in user-generated content and prompts; if prompts or outputs contain personal data of third parties, …
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The provision establishes Runway's collection authority over both primary user inputs and outputs (including AI-generated content) along with comprehensive metadata, which determines what information the service captures and retains during user operations.
Users who input proprietary business content, personally sensitive material, or third-party copyrighted content as prompts or uploads into Runway's tools should be aware that the policy states this content, together with geographic metadata and editing history, is collected by Runway; enterprise users and professional creators handling sensitive client material should evaluate this against their own confidentiality obligations.
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