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Open the companion tool →Why three clauses cover most of it
In AI tools, the clauses that change your position are usually the same three: how your content may be used (including training), how long it is retained, and how disputes are handled — arbitration, class-action waivers, or a jurisdiction.
Everything else — acceptable use lists, export controls, region availability — matters occasionally. Reading the three that decide the deal is a five-minute habit that survives the next ten updates.
The protocol
- Find the notice of the change and the two dates: when it was posted and when it takes effect.
- Locate the previous version if the company publishes one, and compare the content-use, retention, and dispute sections line by line.
- Decide per clause: accept, opt out where an option exists, change how you use the tool, or move the work somewhere else.
- If the change allows training on your content and you do not want that, check whether the tool has a setting and whether it applies to existing content or only new content.
- Note the decision and the date. If you decide to leave, export your data before the effective date, when the old terms still apply.
What the tool does
Work through a five-minute terms-change check: what changed in content use, retention, and disputes, and what you will do about each. It stores nothing and sends nothing.
Limit first: This is a terms-reading aid, not legal advice. Terms differ by jurisdiction and plan, and this check does not interpret a contract for you.
Open the companion tool →One human next step
If a change materially expands what the company may do with your content and offers no opt-out, you can object in writing — and in some jurisdictions lodge a complaint with the privacy regulator. Exporting your data first is the practical move either way.
Research log and safety checks
AI-assist path: not used for a verdict. Comparing two versions of a clause is a reading task the user should see directly; the artifact's value is knowing which three clauses decide the deal. §6.10: not a frontier-pace topic.
§0.5 protection result: category is informed-consent-literacy; crisis-adjacent: no; fear/urgency/scarcity toolkit used: no. The protective function is free and the paid feature is convenience only.