June 12, 2024 – Snowflake AI Terms

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ARCHIVE Snowflake AI Terms

This is an archived version of our Snowflake AI Terms dated June 12, 2024. View the current version here.

Important Terms. These AI Terms are entered into by and between Snowflake and Customer as of the Effective Date and set forth the terms under which Snowflake makes Covered AI Features available for Customer’s use as an Optional Offering. These AI Terms amend and form part of the Customer Agreement.

• Covered AI Features are part of the Service governed by the Customer Agreement. Customer will be charged for use of Covered AI Features pursuant to the Consumption Table incorporated into the Customer Agreement by reference.
• By accessing and using Covered AI Features as an Optional Offering, Customer agrees that it will access and use Covered AI Features solely in accordance with the Customer Agreement, these AI Terms, the Acceptable Use Policy and the Documentation.
• In the event of any conflict between these AI Terms and the Customer Agreement, these AI Terms will control with respect to the subject matter herein.
• Definitions. The definitions in Section 8 (Definitions) below apply to these AI Terms. Unless otherwise indicated, capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meaning given to them in the Customer Agreement.
• Data Classification. The data classification of Inputs and Outputs are as set forth on the “Snowflake AI Features” section of the Documentation.
• Customer Responsibilities; Restrictions on Use. Subject to Section 6 (Indemnification), Customer is responsible for (i) the lawfulness of all Inputs and (ii) all decisions, actions, or inactions arising from its use of the Covered AI Features, including, without limitation, ensuring such decisions, actions, or inactions comply with applicable laws, regulations, and other legal requirements related to data protection, intellectual property, and the use of artificial intelligence or machine learning.
• Customer acknowledges that Outputs may be inaccurate, inappropriate, inefficient, or biased. Customer will implement reasonable practices, including human oversight, to guard against Outputs being used in an unsuitable or unlawful way or in violation of the rights of others.
• Customer will not (and will not permit any third party to) use any Covered AI Features in violation of the Acceptable Use Policy located at https://www.snowflake.com/en/legal (or such successor URL as may be designated by Snowflake).
• Snowflake Commitments. Snowflake will not use Inputs, Outputs or Customer Data to train, re-train or fine-tune any Model that Snowflake makes available to other Snowflake customers.
• Snowflake acknowledges and agrees that Customized Models developed using Customer Data are Customer Data.
• Indemnification. In addition to Snowflake’s indemnification obligations set forth in the Customer Agreement, Snowflake’s obligation to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Customer against third-party intellectual property claims under the Customer Agreement also applies to each Output of a Covered AI Feature, except to the extent any such claims are attributable to any of the following: (i) disablement, evasion, disruption, or interference with any content filters or other safety systems of the Service, by Customer or any third party while using Covered AI Features to generate such Output; (ii) any modification of such Output by Customer or any third party; (iii) any Input or actions taken by Customer intended to solicit Outputs that are likely to infringe or misappropriate any intellectual property right of a third party; (iv) insufficient rights in Customer Data or other Customer information that, when used by Customer in conjunction with the Covered AI Features, produced such Output; or (v) use or distribution of such Output by Customer in a manner that it knew, or should have reasonably been aware, would violate a third party’s trademark or related rights.