You give Snowflake permission to store, copy, and use your data to the extent needed to run the services you have signed up for.
This analysis describes what Snowflake's agreement states, permits, or reserves. It does not constitute a legal determination about enforceability. Regulatory applicability and practical outcomes may vary by jurisdiction, enforcement context, and individual circumstances. Read our methodology
The agreement establishes the legal basis for Snowflake's handling of Customer Data; the license is scoped to what is 'reasonably necessary to provide the Services,' which limits use to service delivery purposes rather than broader commercial exploitation.
Interpretive note: The 'reasonably necessary to provide the Services' standard is not exhaustively defined in the agreement, leaving some interpretive flexibility as to the outer boundary of permitted use.
Removal of explicit data license grant provision may indicate more restrictive data usage terms in current version, though data handling likely governed by Usage Data and Confidentiality sections.
View full change record →Removed emphasis on Customer's retention of intellectual property rights and replaced 'limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use...solely to provide' with broader 'right to host, copy, transmit, display, and otherwise use' language.
View full change record →This provision authorizes Snowflake to host, copy, transmit, and display Customer Data for service delivery purposes; the scope is expressly limited to actions necessary to provide the contracted services, which is a standard and comparatively bounded grant for a cloud data platform.
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"Customer grants Snowflake the right to host, copy, transmit, display, and otherwise use Customer Data and Customer Applications as reasonably necessary to provide the Services in accordance with this Agreement.Excerpt from Snowflake's Terms of Service
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This license grant is relevant to GDPR data processing obligations, as it defines the scope of Snowflake's permitted actions on Customer Data as a data processor.
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The agreement establishes the legal basis for Snowflake's handling of Customer Data; the license is scoped to what is 'reasonably necessary to provide the Services,' which limits use to service delivery purposes rather than broader commercial exploitation.
This provision authorizes Snowflake to host, copy, transmit, and display Customer Data for service delivery purposes; the scope is expressly limited to actions necessary to provide the contracted services, which is a standard and comparatively bounded grant for a cloud data platform.
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