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Freshdesk Freddy AI carries highly permissive license terms; Intercom Fin AI carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: FRESHDESK FREDDY AI NOT RECOMMENDED · INTERCOM FIN AI NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | FRESHDESK FREDDY AI | INTERCOM FIN AI |
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| TModel Training | ||
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| $Tier Differences |
“By submitting User Content to the Websites, you automatically grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide right and license to use, publish, reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, translate, create derivative works from, incorporate into other works, distri…”
Users grant Freshworks an extremely broad, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to exploit submitted content in any form with no compensation, plus a moral rights waiver. This applies to all user-submitted content on the website.
“Customer, from time to time, may submit Feedback to Intercom. Intercom may freely use or exploit Feedback in connection with the Intercom Technology. Customer hereby grants to Intercom a perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license (with ri…”
Any content submitted as 'Feedback' is subject to an extremely broad, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free license. If inputs or prompts are characterized as Feedback, Intercom gains sweeping rights to exploit them commercially with no compensation to the Customer.
“ 5. Intellectual Property Rights. You acknowledge that all text, graphics, photographs, trademarks, logos, icons, user interfaces, sounds, music, videos, artwork, software, and computer code (collectively, “ Content ”), including but not limited to the “look and feel”, layout, de…”
“ 2.5. Intercom Code. The right to use the Services includes the right to deploy Intercom Code on Customer Properties in order to enable messaging, calling, chat and other functionality and to collect Customer Data for use with the Services as further described herein. Subject to…”
“It is also in our legitimate interests to process Personal Data in this way in order to perform analytics, train our algorithms, improve, enhance, develop, support and operate the Services and its availability, compile statistical reports and record insights into usage patterns,…”
Platform relies on 'legitimate interests' (not consent) to train algorithms and develop ML products using personal data, including potentially hosted customer data. Users may not be aware their data is used for model training.
“ 3.4. Usage Data and Anonymized Data. In addition to the rights contained in Section 3.2, Customer agrees that Intercom may use certain technical and other data about Customer’s and People's use of the Services (“ Usage Data ”) and/or Customer Data, which is anonymized to re…”
“ Except with our express prior written permission or as permitted by applicable laws, you may not copy, distribute, reproduce, mirror, frame, publicly display, publicly perform, translate, create derivative works of, re-publish or transmit the Websites or Content (in whole or in…”
“ typical use projections or exceeds usage by similar-sized customers (where customer size is defined by number of seats), including, but not limited to, storage and bandwidth consumption) and/or negatively impacts the operability, integrity, or security of the Service until usage…”
“personal data obtained from any third parties we work with in relation to our recruitment activities, including without limitation (and subject to local laws), recruitment agencies, background check providers, credit reference agencies and your referees; and details of your edu…”
Freshworks collects special category data (health, medical conditions) and criminal conviction data from third-party sources including background check and credit reference agencies. This is highly sensitive data subject to stricter legal bases under GDPR Article 9 and Article 10.
“Customer acknowledges that following termination, it will have no further access to any Customer Data input into any Service, and that Intercom may delete any such data as may have been stored by Intercom at any time.”
Intercom may delete customer data at any time post-termination with no stated notice period or grace window, potentially resulting in unrecoverable data loss.
“Upon expiration of Customer’s free trial, Freshworks may immediately suspend Customer’s access to the free trial Services and/or Software. Customer must export Customer Data before the end of the free trial or Customer Data will be permanently deleted. Notwithstanding anything to…”
Free tier users receive materially worse data retention protections than paid users — no export window, no 14-day grace period, immediate permanent deletion.
“If Customer receives free access or a trial or evaluation subscription to the Service (a “ Trial Subscription "), then Customer may use the Services in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Section (and any other supplemental trial terms agreed by Customer) for a perio…”
Trial users receive zero warranty, indemnity, support, or SLA protections. Auto-conversion to paid subscription may occur without explicit re-consent. Intercom may terminate trial at any time for any reason.