All intellectual property rights in the Snowflake Technology remain with Snowflake and its suppliers. Feedback voluntarily provided by Customer or Users may be used and incorporated by Snowflake into its products without compensation or restriction.
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This provision establishes that any feedback, suggestions, or comments provided by Customer or Users about Snowflake's products may be incorporated by Snowflake into its technology without requiring any license, compensation, or attribution. Customers retain no source code access rights beyond object code for Client Software.
Under this clause, any suggestions or feedback about Snowflake's products submitted by Customer or its Users may be used by Snowflake to develop and improve its technology without any obligation to compensate or credit the Customer. The Customer's use rights are limited to the specific licenses granted in the agreement and do not include any ownership or access to underlying platform code.
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Compare across platforms →"Customer agrees that Snowflake or its suppliers retain all right, title and interest (including all patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret and other intellectual property rights) in and to the Snowflake Technology. Except for the express limited rights set forth in this Agreement, no right, title or interest in any Snowflake Technology is granted to Customer. Further, Customer acknowledges that the Service is offered as an online, hosted solution, and that Customer has no right to obtain a copy of the underlying computer code for the Service, except (if applicable) for the Client Software in object code format. Snowflake may freely use and incorporate any suggestions, comments or other feedback about the Snowflake Offerings voluntarily provided by Customer or Users into the Snowflake Technology.Excerpt from Snowflake's Terms of Service
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The feedback license provision is standard in enterprise SaaS agreements and does not directly implicate a specific regulatory framework.
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This provision establishes that any feedback, suggestions, or comments provided by Customer or Users about Snowflake's products may be incorporated by Snowflake into its technology without requiring any license, compensation, or attribution. Customers retain no source code access rights beyond object code for Client Software.
Under this clause, any suggestions or feedback about Snowflake's products submitted by Customer or its Users may be used by Snowflake to develop and improve its technology without any obligation to compensate or credit the Customer. The Customer's use rights are limited to the specific licenses granted in the agreement and do not include any ownership or access to underlying …
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