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Two platforms.
Same questions.
Focal
WORKFLOW & AUTOMATION
PROMPT
Users retain nominal ownership of their submitted inputs ('Your Inputs'), but grant Focal a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to process that content for operation and maintenance of the Service. Metadata such as keywords or location data associated with content is also collected. Focal reserves the right to remove, edit, or delete any submitted content at any time without prior notice. No explicit assertion that users retain full exclusive ownership is made.
OUTPUT
Focal claims broad rights over outputs. Users are granted only monitoring rights, not exclusive ownership, over 'Your Outputs.' Focal holds a worldwide, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable, and irrevocable (for so long as content is stored) license to access, use, reproduce, distribute, publish, modify, and otherwise process both inputs and outputs. A separate perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable, and sublicensable license is also granted specifically for model-training and improvement activities. Output ownership in any strong proprietary sense is not affirmed for users.
TRAINING
Training use is explicitly and broadly confirmed across multiple surfaces. The Privacy Policy states personal information may be used to 'train our artificial intelligence models' and that de-identified or anonymized data may be shared with third parties to train proprietary algorithms or machine learning systems. The AI Addendum separately states users acknowledge and agree that Inputs, Outputs, and all interactions with the Service may be used for training, enhancing, and improving machine learning models and algorithms. No opt-out from training use is described in the cited materials.
COMMERCIAL
Commercial use of outputs is restricted by default. Unless a user has subscribed to a plan that expressly permits it, monetizing, commercializing, or using outputs for any commercial purpose is prohibited. Downloaded or shared content is limited to personal, non-commercial use with required attribution. Reproduction, resale, or exploitation of any portion of the Application or Service requires the Owner's express prior written permission.
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The Forecasting Company
WORKFLOW & AUTOMATION
PROMPT
Users are granted a non-exclusive, limited, non-transferable, and freely revocable right to access and use the Service for personal or internal business purposes. Separately, qualifying subscribers receive a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable API license during their Subscription term. Critically, users grant The Forecasting Company an irrevocable, perpetual, transferable, sublicensable (through multiple tiers), fully paid, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, copy, store, modify, distribute, reproduce, publish, create derivative works of, and display User Content — which would encompass submitted prompts — for service provision, product improvement, data analysis, customer research, new feature development, usage trend identification, and industry benchmark creation. Users do not own their User Account and possess no rights to data stored on The Forecasting Company's servers.
OUTPUT
Users may use Service Output for internal business purposes on a royalty-free basis, but use of the Service and its Output does not transfer any Intellectual Property Rights in the Output to the user. The Forecasting Company retains the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to limit a user's use of Output or require cessation and deletion of copies at any time, if it believes such use may infringe third-party rights. Users are explicitly prohibited from representing Output as human-generated or using Output to train their own machine learning models. The Service may generate identical or similar Output for multiple users.
TRAINING
Users are explicitly prohibited from using any Service content — including captions, keywords, or metadata — for machine learning or AI training purposes. However, the broad User Content license granted to The Forecasting Company expressly includes use for 'improving our products and the Service' and 'developing new products or features,' which encompasses potential model training on submitted User Content. An opt-out mechanism is available: if a user opts out, The Forecasting Company will not use that user's User Content after opt-out to train its machine-learning models or improve the Service. Pre-opt-out use is not addressed.
COMMERCIAL
Users are prohibited from using the Service for commercial solicitation purposes and from copying, reselling, sublicensing, distributing, modifying, or creating derivative works of the Service or The Forecasting Company's Intellectual Property, including via automated scraping. Commercial users engaged in arbitration are responsible for their own JAMS filing, administrative, and arbitrator fees, with any award including costs and reasonable attorneys' fees. All liability disclaimers and terms apply to all users regardless of personal or commercial use. The Service is classified as commercial computer software for government users.
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AIRIN SUMMARY
Focal carries the most permissive license terms of the set; The Forecasting Company has no scored posture yet (unrated).FOR ENTERPRISE: FOCAL NOT RECOMMENDED · THE FORECASTING COMPANY NOT YET SCORED
↳ Compliance surfaces · side by side
⚡ INTERACTIVE RISK COMPARISON HEATMAP
| RISK SURFACE | FOCAL | THE FORECASTING COMPANY |
|---|---|---|
| PPrompt Ownership | ||
| OOutput Ownership | ||
| TModel Training | ||
| CCommercial Use | ||
| DData Privacy | ||
| $Tier Differences |
* Click any cell in the heatmap matrix to scroll directly to its verbatim policy citations below.
📂 Intellectual Property & Model Training
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SURFACE 01
Prompt Ownership
Focal
MEDHIGH
Users retain nominal ownership of their submitted inputs ('Your Inputs'), but grant Focal a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to process that content for operation and maintenance of the Service. Metadata such as keywords or location data associated with content is also collected. Focal reserves the right to remove, edit, or delete any submitted content at any time without prior notice. No explicit assertion that users retain full exclusive ownership is made.
“ All trademarks — nominal or figurative — and all other marks, trade names, service marks, word marks, illustrations, images, or logos appearing in connection with this Application are, and remain, the exclusive property of the Owner or its licensors and are subject to the protec…”
The Forecasting Company
MEDUNRATED
Users are granted a non-exclusive, limited, non-transferable, and freely revocable right to access and use the Service for personal or internal business purposes. Separately, qualifying subscribers receive a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable API license during their Subscription term. Critically, users grant The Forecasting Company an irrevocable, perpetual, transferable, sublicensable (through multiple tiers), fully paid, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, copy, store, modify, distribute, reproduce, publish, create derivative works of, and display User Content — which would encompass submitted prompts — for service provision, product improvement, data analysis, customer research, new feature development, usage trend identification, and industry benchmark creation. Users do not own their User Account and possess no rights to data stored on The Forecasting Company's servers.
“ Intellectual Property Rights Definition. For the purposes of these Terms, “ Intellectual Property Rights ” means all patent rights, copyright rights, mask work rights, moral rights, rights of personality, trademark, trade dress and service mark rights, goodwill, trade secret rig…”
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SURFACE 02
Output Ownership
Focal
MED⚠ CAUTIONHIGH
Focal claims broad rights over outputs. Users are granted only monitoring rights, not exclusive ownership, over 'Your Outputs.' Focal holds a worldwide, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable, and irrevocable (for so long as content is stored) license to access, use, reproduce, distribute, publish, modify, and otherwise process both inputs and outputs. A separate perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable, and sublicensable license is also granted specifically for model-training and improvement activities. Output ownership in any strong proprietary sense is not affirmed for users.
“ Until payment of the total purchase price is received by the Owner, any Products ordered shall not become the User’s property.”
The Forecasting Company
MED⚠ CAUTIONUNRATED
Users may use Service Output for internal business purposes on a royalty-free basis, but use of the Service and its Output does not transfer any Intellectual Property Rights in the Output to the user. The Forecasting Company retains the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to limit a user's use of Output or require cessation and deletion of copies at any time, if it believes such use may infringe third-party rights. Users are explicitly prohibited from representing Output as human-generated or using Output to train their own machine learning models. The Service may generate identical or similar Output for multiple users.
“ Subject to your compliance with these Terms, you may use your output of the Service (“ Output” ) for your internal business purposes (except as described below), on a royalty-free basis, provided that you acknowledge and agree: (i) that your use of the Service and the Output doe…”
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SURFACE 03
Model Training
Focal
MEDHIGH
Training use is explicitly and broadly confirmed across multiple surfaces. The Privacy Policy states personal information may be used to 'train our artificial intelligence models' and that de-identified or anonymized data may be shared with third parties to train proprietary algorithms or machine learning systems. The AI Addendum separately states users acknowledge and agree that Inputs, Outputs, and all interactions with the Service may be used for training, enhancing, and improving machine learning models and algorithms. No opt-out from training use is described in the cited materials.
“ Users acknowledge and accept that by providing their own content on this Application they grant the Owner a non-exclusive, fully paid-up and royalty-free license to process such content solely for the operation and maintenance of this Application as contractually required.”
The Forecasting Company
MED⚠ CAUTIONUNRATED
Users are explicitly prohibited from using any Service content — including captions, keywords, or metadata — for machine learning or AI training purposes. However, the broad User Content license granted to The Forecasting Company expressly includes use for 'improving our products and the Service' and 'developing new products or features,' which encompasses potential model training on submitted User Content. An opt-out mechanism is available: if a user opts out, The Forecasting Company will not use that user's User Content after opt-out to train its machine-learning models or improve the Service. Pre-opt-out use is not addressed.
“ use any content available on or via the Service (including any caption information, keywords, or other metadata) for any machine learning and/or artificial intelligence training or development purposes, or for any technologies designed or intended for the identification of natur…”
C
SURFACE 04
Commercial Use
Focal
MED⚠ CAUTIONHIGH
Commercial use of outputs is restricted by default. Unless a user has subscribed to a plan that expressly permits it, monetizing, commercializing, or using outputs for any commercial purpose is prohibited. Downloaded or shared content is limited to personal, non-commercial use with required attribution. Reproduction, resale, or exploitation of any portion of the Application or Service requires the Owner's express prior written permission.
“ Unless you have subscribed to a plan that expressly permits it, you agree not to monetize, commercialize, or otherwise use Your Outputs for any commercial purpose. If you intend to use Your Outputs commercially, you must be on a subscription plan that authorizes such use.”
The Forecasting Company
MED⚠ CAUTIONUNRATED
Users are prohibited from using the Service for commercial solicitation purposes and from copying, reselling, sublicensing, distributing, modifying, or creating derivative works of the Service or The Forecasting Company's Intellectual Property, including via automated scraping. Commercial users engaged in arbitration are responsible for their own JAMS filing, administrative, and arbitrator fees, with any award including costs and reasonable attorneys' fees. All liability disclaimers and terms apply to all users regardless of personal or commercial use. The Service is classified as commercial computer software for government users.
“ buy, sell or transfer API keys without our prior written consent in each case;”
📂 Data Privacy & Governance
D
SURFACE 05
Data Privacy
Focal
MED⚠ CAUTIONHIGH
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“ The Owner may be allowed to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever the User has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, the Owner may be obliged to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever required to fulfil a…”
The Forecasting Company
MED⚠ CAUTIONUNRATED
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“ This policy relates solely to this Application, if not stated otherwise within this document.”
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SURFACE 06
Tier Differences
Focal
MED⚠ CAUTIONHIGH
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“ The right of withdrawal only applies to European Consumers.”
The Forecasting Company
MED⚠ CAUTIONUNRATED
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“ Cancellation; Refunds. You may de-activate your User Account or any Subscription at any time, in your sole discretion, and we may, subject to Section 8.1 (Billing Policies; Taxes), suspend or terminate your Subscription, your User Account, or the Service at any time, in our sole…”