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“ (2) When you upload photos, text and/or audio, for creating video animations and/or receiving an output ”
“Information posted to the Services. Certain features on the Services may enable you to share templates or make your videos and other content available to other users. We collect information that you choose to share or make available (“UGC”), and we, or others, may store, display,…”
User-generated content shared on the platform (including name and email address) may be used, displayed, reproduced, or published by HeyGen or other users, and may be shared with third parties by other users, with or without attribution.
“You acknowledge that, due to the nature of the Services and generative artificial intelligence, User Output may not be unique and other third party users may generate similar content from their independent use of the Services.”
HeyGen explicitly disclaims uniqueness of outputs, meaning confidential or proprietary information embedded in outputs may be regenerated for other users. No confidentiality commitment is made regarding output content.
“ 2. While in the storage, awaiting processing or deletion, the Applicative Data is not accessed for any purpose, including not accessed for model training.”
“User Input. When you use our Services, we collect personal information that is included in the text, voice, scripts, images, videos, and other Input (as defined in our Terms) that you provide to generate videos, avatars, and other forms of output, alongside metadata associated wi…”
Broad categories of user input — including voice, scripts, images, and video — are explicitly identified as potential training data for AI model improvement.
“ When you download material from the Website.”
“User Output generated under a Free Plan may not be sold, sublicensed, redistributed, monetized, or used in connection with commercial activities, advertising, client work, revenue-generating product or any other services.”
Complete prohibition on commercial use of outputs for free plan users, including advertising, client work, and revenue-generating activities.
“If you terminate your account, any association between your account and Personal Data we store will no longer be accessible through your account. However, given the nature of sharing on certain services, any public activity on your account prior to deletion will remain stored on…”
Publicly shared content/activity is retained permanently on servers even after account deletion, which may conflict with GDPR right to erasure (Art. 17).
“Some of the features of the Services require us to process parts of faces or bodies within a video or photo, and this may include face imagery. The information we use for this process is used to create and personalize avatars. See our Biometric Information Privacy Notice for furt…”
Biometric data (face imagery, body data) is collected and processed. This triggers heightened legal obligations under BIPA (Illinois), CCPA sensitive data rules, and GDPR Article 9.
“ (4) When you upgrade to become a Paying User ”
“Additionally, we may impose usage caps, feature restrictions, storage limits, rate limits, or other technical limitations at our sole discretion towards Users in the Free Plan. Certain features, integrations, export capabilities, collaboration tools, or content-generation limits…”
HeyGen reserves the right to unilaterally change, restrict, or discontinue free plan features at any time without notice, creating significant instability for free users.