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Instantly carries highly permissive license terms; Microsoft 365 Copilot carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: INSTANTLY NOT RECOMMENDED · MICROSOFT 365 COPILOT NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | INSTANTLY | MICROSOFT 365 COPILOT |
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“6.1 Instantly Platform and Technology . Subscriber acknowledges that Instantly retains all right, title and interest in and to the Instantly Platform, including all algorithms, AI, language and visual models and improvements thereto, Integration Tools and all software and all In…”
“When you provide your Data or Your Content to Bing Places, you grant Microsoft a worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, save, modify, aggregate, promote, transmit, display, and distribute your Data and Your Content (including intellectual property rights in your Data…”
Broad, worldwide, royalty-free license over user inputs/content submitted to Bing Places, including sublicensing rights to third parties with no apparent scope limitation or termination right described here.
“ 4.1 Access Rights. Commencing as of the date that Subscriber purchases or orders the applicable Instantly Service, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and Instantly’s approval of your use of the Instantly Service, Instantly hereby grants to Subscriber a ter…”
“As part of building the Xbox Services community, you grant to Microsoft, its affiliates and sublicensees a free and worldwide right to use, modify, reproduce, distribute, broadcast, share and display Your Content or your name, gamertag, motto, or avatar that you posted for any Xb…”
Broad, royalty-free, worldwide license granted to Microsoft and its sublicensees to use, modify, reproduce, distribute, broadcast, share and display user-submitted content with no expiry stated.
“ We also use the Information described above for our own internal purposes – such as to improve, test, update and verify our own database; develop new products; operate, analyze, improve and secure our Services and our databases and servers. Deidentified Personal Informat…”
“As part of our efforts to improve and develop our products, we may use your data to develop and train our AI models. Learn more here .”
Microsoft explicitly reserves the right to use user data to train AI models. This appears twice in the document, suggesting it applies broadly across products and tiers.
“ Data marketing services, for example: Operating our data cooperative and providing marketing information to our Clients (which may include companies, non-profit organizations, other data compilers, resellers and platforms, advertising networks, and political organizations),…”
“The articles, text, photos, maps, videos, video players, and third-party material available on Bing and MSN, including through Microsoft bots, applications and programs, are for your noncommercial, personal use only. Other uses, including downloading, copying, or redistributing t…”
Bing and MSN content is restricted to noncommercial personal use. Using outputs/materials to build products or for commercial purposes requires explicit Microsoft authorization, which is not granted by default.
“ Whether We “Sold” or “shared” This Category of Personal Information in the Last 12 Months ”
“If you fail to remove excess content or obtain sufficient additional storage after receiving notice from Microsoft, we reserve the right to delete or disable access to Your Content.”
Microsoft may permanently delete Outlook.com user content upon storage quota breach without a defined grace period in this clause.
“This no-refund policy applies to all subscription plans, Credits, and any add-on or ancillary services, including but not limited to the VIP Services, “Done-For-You” service, Warmup Service, and Supersearch. 5.4 Third-Party Service Provider. Instantly uses Stripe, Inc. and it…”
“ f. Refund Policy. Unless otherwise provided by law or by a particular Service offer, all purchases are final and non-refundable. If you believe that Microsoft has charged you in error, you must contact us within 90 days of such charge. No refunds will be given for any charges mo…”