A vendor updates its AI terms and a small company discovers its client data may now train models

A tool a small company uses every day can change what it does with the company's data without the company changing anything. A terms update arrives by email, someone clicks accept, and work continues. Weeks later, a customer questionnaire asks whether any vendor trains models on the company's data, and nobody can answer it, because nobody tracked which tools the company uses, which plan each one is on, or whether training was on or off.

The terms did not change because the company did anything wrong. The vendor changed the deal, and the company had no process for noticing. No one owned the tool list, no one rechecked the terms at renewal, and no one had a written rule for what staff may paste into a chatbot.

The fix is a list and a rule. List every AI tool, note the plan and the training setting for each, write one page of rules for what staff may enter into AI tools, and assign one person to recheck the terms at renewal. When the next terms email arrives, the answer is already written down instead of discovered after the fact.

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