Know what your vendors can do with your data.
Term Detective reads the terms, privacy policies, DPAs, and subprocessor lists behind the AI and SaaS tools your team uses. Get answers to the questions that matter, with a direct quote from the vendor's terms, and get notified when the answer changes.
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Brightnote Terms of Service, section 7.3
7.3 Use of Customer Content. We process Customer Content to provide, secure, and support the Services, and may use aggregated usage information to operate and improve them. Customer Content submitted under a Free plan may be used to train and improve our machine learning models. Free plan administrators may opt out in Workspace Settings. Nothing in this Section limits our obligations under the Data Processing Addendum.
The questions your team keeps asking, answered for every tool.
Every answer shows the source sentence, a link to the document, and the date we captured it.
Can they train AI on our content?
The default, any opt-out, and how it differs by plan.
Do people at the vendor read it?
When staff or contractors can access what you upload.
How long do they keep it?
Retention for content, deleted data, and logs, where stated.
Who else touches it?
Every subprocessor, and every addition or removal.
Where does it live?
Hosting regions and data residency options.
How much warning do we get?
The notice a vendor promises before its terms or subprocessors change.
Set it up once. Hear about it when something moves.
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Pick your tools
Search by name. No URLs to hunt down: we already know where each vendor keeps its documents.
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We read them, then re-check daily
Terms of service, privacy policy, DPA, subprocessor list, and AI terms, whichever exist.
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Get told when an answer changes
Each alert shows what changed, quotes the source, and links to the document. Get a daily alert when something changes, or a weekly or monthly summary.
We find the terms. You make the call.
Term Detective reports what vendors' public documents say, sentence by sentence. We don't score vendors, judge compliance, or give legal advice.
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A few vendors we're watching, with the most recent change we recorded in their public documents.
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$0For a quick look- 3 vendors
- Current answers with quotes and sources
- An email when something changes
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$29 /monthorfounding member price, 40% off
- 20 vendors from the full list
- Side-by-side comparison and full change history
- A daily alert when something changes, or weekly or monthly summaries
- The Fine Print newsletter included
- Request up to 3 new vendors a month
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Team
$79 /monthorfounding member price, 40% off
- Everything in Starter
- 75 vendors
- Evidence exports (CSV) for audits and questionnaires
- A private RSS and JSON feed of your changes
- 3 users
- Priority vendor requests, up to 5 a month
- Hands-on help setting up your vendor list
The Fine Print newsletter, $5/month
A monthly roundup of the most notable changes, with commentary from the Detective. Included with Starter and Team.
Annual plans include two months free. The first 25 paid accounts get 40% off annual plans for as long as they stay. A vendor's consumer and business terms each count as one vendor. Contact hello@termdetective.com for multi-client MSP inquiries.
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Answer "is this AI tool OK?" with sourced answers instead of guesswork.
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Evidence for vendor reviews, audits, and customer security questionnaires.
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