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How to read this page: Overall risk rates what LM Studio's own policy terms mean for your prompts, outputs, and data. The benchmark bands below grade those same verified terms relative to peers — a platform in a risky-by-default category can rate HIGH risk and still grade STRONG against its peer set. Both trace to the cited findings.
Policy benchmark
rubric v1.0 — how this is scoredBased on 39 verified, verbatim-cited findings below — read the citations.
Based on 42 verified, verbatim-cited findings below — read the citations.
Automated assessment against a published rubric — not legal advice.
Fully verified — complete core corpus captured and read in full.
- Privacy PolicyVerified - read in full - 0 citationsstaticLast captured 2026-07-20
- Terms of ServiceVerified - read in full - 0 citationsstaticLast captured 2026-08-21
Clause intelligence
Canonical clauses and stance patterns extracted from the same gate-verified citations shown on this page.
The clause allows indefinite, perpetual, or necessity-based retention.
“We retain information only as long as necessary.”Open source citation
The clause allows indefinite, perpetual, or necessity-based retention.
“We retain information only as long as necessary.”Open source citation
The clause includes sublicensable, transferable, or assignable rights.
“Subject to the terms and conditions of these Terms, Element Labs grants to You a non-exclusive, non-transferable, license to use the Software solely for Your personal and / or internal business purposes and solely in accordance with the Documentation.”Open source citation
The clause includes sublicensable, transferable, or assignable rights.
“You acknowledge that the Software and its structure, organization, and source code constitute valuable trade secrets and Confidential information of Element Labs and its suppliers. Except as expressly permitted by these Terms, You agree that You will not permit any third party to, and You will not itself: (a) modify, adapt, alter, translate, or create derivative works from the Software or the Documentation; (b) in...”Open source citation
The clause includes sublicensable, transferable, or assignable rights.
“Subject to the terms and conditions of these Terms, Element Labs grants to You a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Software solely for Your personal and / or internal business purposes and solely in accordance with the Documentation.”Open source citation
Tier matrix
Plan-level conditions detected from citation-backed clauses. Empty tiers mean AIRIN has not captured decisive tier language yet.
| Tier | Surface | Verdict | Risk | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All applicable tiers | data retention | conditional | MEDIUM | 4 |
| All applicable tiers | output ownership | improves | LOW | 3 |
| All applicable tiers | subprocessors data sharing | worsens | HIGH | 10 |
| Pro / Paid | tier differences | conditional | MEDIUM | 1 |
| Team / Business | privacy data use | worsens | HIGH | 6 |
| Team / Business | subprocessors data sharing | conditional | MEDIUM | 3 |
Policy evolution
Open full timelineBefore/after stance changes across captured policy versions. When no material delta exists yet, AIRIN shows the latest citation-backed stance events instead.
data sharing improved from high/sale or sell to medium/third party or vendor sharing.
“We do not sell your information and have not done so in the past 12 months. We do not share your information for cross-context behavioural advertising.”Before citation
“" Confidential Information " means the Software and all written or oral information, disclosed by Element Labs related to the business, products, services or operations of Element Labs that by the nature of the information or the circumstances surrounding disclosure ought reasonably to be treated as confidential. Confidential Information will not include information that: (a) was already known without restriction to You at the time of disclosure; (b) was disclosed to You by a third party who had the right to make such disclosure without any confidentiality restrictions; (c) is, or through no fault of Yours has become, generally available to the public or (d) was independently developed by You without access to, or use of, the Disclosing Party's Confidential Information.”After citation
data sharing worsened from medium/third party or vendor sharing to high/sale or sell.
“"Confidential Information " means the Software and all written or oral information, disclosed by Element Labs related to the business, products, services or operations of Element Labs that by the nature of the information or the circumstances surrounding disclosure ought reasonably to be treated as confidential. Confidential Information will not include information that: (a) was already known without restriction to You at the time of disclosure; (b) was disclosed to You by a third party who had the right to make such disclosure without any confidentiality restrictions; (c) is, or through no fault of Yours has become, generally available to the public or (d) was independently developed by You without access to, or use of, the Disclosing Party's Confidential Information.”Before citation
“We do not sell your information and have not done so in the past 12 months. We do not share your information for cross-context behavioural advertising.”After citation
data sharing improved from high/sale or sell to medium/third party or vendor sharing.
“We do not sell your information and have not done so in the past 12 months. We do not share your information for cross-context behavioural advertising.”Before citation
“"Confidential Information " means the Software and all written or oral information, disclosed by Element Labs related to the business, products, services or operations of Element Labs that by the nature of the information or the circumstances surrounding disclosure ought reasonably to be treated as confidential. Confidential Information will not include information that: (a) was already known without restriction to You at the time of disclosure; (b) was disclosed to You by a third party who had the right to make such disclosure without any confidentiality restrictions; (c) is, or through no fault of Yours has become, generally available to the public or (d) was independently developed by You without access to, or use of, the Disclosing Party's Confidential Information.”After citation
Latest stance: rights or controls vary by tier on tier differences
“Company may change the features, limits, pricing, or billing terms for Paid Features with reasonable advance notice where required by law or where the change materially affects an active paid plan. If You do not agree to a change, You must cancel the applicable Paid Feature before the change takes effect; if a change materially affects unused usage credits purchased separately from a subscription plan, You may request a refund of those unused credits, which Company may grant in its sole discretion. Continued use after the change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the change.”Open timeline citation
Latest stance: broad license on privacy data use
“Subject to the terms and conditions of these Terms, Company grants to You a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Software solely for Your personal and / or internal business purposes and solely in accordance with the Documentation.”Open timeline citation
Latest stance: sublicensable or transferable on subprocessors data sharing
“You acknowledge that the Software and its structure, organization, and source code constitute valuable trade secrets and Confidential information of Company and its suppliers. Except as expressly permitted by these Terms, You agree that You will not permit any third party to, and You will not yourself: (a) modify, adapt, alter, translate, or create derivative works from the Software or the Documentation; (b) integrate the Software with other software other than through Company published interfaces made available with the Software; (c) use any open source products with the Software in a manner that imposes, or could impose, a requirement or condition that the Software or any part thereof: (i) be disclosed or distributed in source code for; (ii) be licensed for the purpose of making modifications or derivative works or (iii) be redistributable at no charge; (d) sublicense, distribute, sell, use for service bureau use, as an application service provider, or a software-as-a-service, lease, rent, loan, or otherwise transfer the Software or the Documentation to any third party; (e) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the Software, except and only to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding this limitation; (f) remove, alter, cover or obfuscate any copyright notices or other proprietary rights notices included in the Software; or (g) otherwise use or copy the Software except as expressly permitted hereunder. You will notify Company of any unauthorized use or disclosure of the Software or any breach of this Section.”Open timeline citation
Latest stance: user retains rights on output ownership
“As between You and Company, You own all rights, title and interest in the Content and all rights not expressly granted to Company in these Terms in the Content are reserved to You. The Software and Documentation, and all worldwide Intellectual Property Rights therein, are the exclusive property of Company and its suppliers. All rights in and to the Software not expressly granted to You in these Terms are reserved by Company and its suppliers. You will not remove, alter, or obscure any proprietary notices (including copyright notices) of Company or its suppliers on the Software or the Documentation.”Open timeline citation
Capture recency
- Privacy Policy:Last captured 2026-07-20· verified 2026-07-20
- Terms of Service:Last captured 2026-08-21· verified 2026-08-21
Dates state when our pipeline captured and verified each document — not when the vendor last changed it. Documents are re-scanned on a recurring cadence; a document verified once says so until a re-scan confirms it again.
234 findings first captured First scan: June 2026.
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