If you send Scale any suggestions or ideas about their website, Scale permanently owns the right to use that feedback however they want, including building new products from it, with no obligation to compensate you.
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The terms authorize Scale to use any feedback you submit for any purpose, including creating new commercial products, without any payment or attribution obligation, and this right cannot be revoked once feedback is submitted.
Under this provision, any suggestions, bug reports, or improvement ideas submitted through the site become available to Scale on a permanent, irrevocable, royalty-free basis; consumers and business users alike lose the ability to restrict or reclaim that input after submission.
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"If you choose to provide input and suggestions regarding problems with or proposed modifications or improvements to the Site ("Feedback"), then you hereby grant Scale an unrestricted, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, fully paid, royalty-free right to exploit the Feedback in any manner and for any purpose, including to improve the Sites and create other products and services.Excerpt from Scale AI's Terms of Service
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision primarily engages intellectual property law rather than data protection regulation.
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The terms authorize Scale to use any feedback you submit for any purpose, including creating new commercial products, without any payment or attribution obligation, and this right cannot be revoked once feedback is submitted.
Under this provision, any suggestions, bug reports, or improvement ideas submitted through the site become available to Scale on a permanent, irrevocable, royalty-free basis; consumers and business users alike lose the ability to restrict or reclaim that input after submission.
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