Buyer terms
Version 2026-10-10 · graded against acceptance criteria 2026-08-10
These terms apply when you fund a custom training data request — commissioning clips that do not exist yet, captured in private homes. They sit alongside our general Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and the acceptance criteria, which define what you are and are not being sold. Where these terms and the general Terms of Service conflict on a request, these govern.
You pay up front, and you are charged only for accepted clips
Funding a custom data request charges the full amount — clips wanted × price per clip — and Node Data holds it. Each accepted clip draws down that balance. When the request closes, whatever was not spent on an accepted clip is refunded to the card that funded it. A rejected clip costs you nothing and is never delivered to you.
Every request is reviewed before any family sees it
A person at Node Data reads every request before it is offered to households, to check that the task is safe and suitable for a child to film at home. If we decline your request, we close it and refund the full amount you paid. Nothing is filmed for a request until we have approved it.
"Accepted" means the published criteria, fixed at the moment you pay
Clips are graded automatically against the acceptance criteria, by the same code for every clip, at the moment of submission. The version of those criteria in force when you funded the request is the version your clips are graded against; if we change the criteria afterwards, your request keeps the ones you agreed to.
You can dispute any accepted clip
You may dispute an accepted clip at any time before you download it, and for 14 days after you first download it, by identifying the specific criterion you say it fails. We review the clip and its recorded quality report against that criterion only, and we show you what that report says. Where our own report records the disputed check as failed, the dispute is upheld immediately — we are not going to make you argue against our own evidence. Otherwise a person reviews it. If a dispute is upheld the price of that clip is refunded. 14 days after first download a clip is final. Disputes are about whether a clip meets the published spec: a clip that meets it but does not suit your model is not a ground for refund.
An upheld dispute is refunded by Node Data, not taken back from the family
When we accept a clip we pay the capturing household for it. If we later agree with you that the clip should not have passed, that is our grading error and we absorb it — the refund comes out of our share and the household keeps what it was paid. We mention this because it explains why our grader is strict rather than generous.
What you may do with the clips
On delivery you receive a perpetual, worldwide licence to use the clips to train, validate, evaluate and deploy machine-learning models, including commercially and including models you sell. You may store, transform and derive from them internally. You may not resell or publicly redistribute the clips themselves as media, and you may not attempt to identify any individual or household from them.
Your clips are not sold to anyone else
Node Data delivers the clips filmed for your request only to you. Under this version of the terms we do not re-list them, sell them, or license them to any other buyer.
The household keeps its own recording
Paying for a clip buys you the licence described above, not the footage itself. The household that filmed it keeps ownership of its own recording of its own home. If you need the household bound to exclusivity as well, ask us before you fund: that is a separate negotiation and a different price, not something a request quietly grants.
Models you train are entirely yours, and stay yours
Weights, checkpoints, embeddings, evaluations and any other artefact you produce by training on these clips are 100% yours. Node Data claims no ownership, no licence and no royalty in them, and neither the households nor Node Data can assert a later claim over a model because their clip was in its training set. A withdrawn permission stops future delivery of that family's clips; it does not reach into a model you have already trained, and we will not ask you to retrain, unlearn or delete one. The one thing this does not cover is a model whose output reproduces an identifiable person or home from the clips — that is outside the licence in any case, and is what the no-identification rule above exists to prevent.
Some clips are captured by minors, under parental control
Capturers include children aged 13 and over, filming inside their own homes. For every such clip a verified parent has separately permitted recording, disclosure to you, and use of the clip to train AI — three separate permissions, each withdrawable — and has approved that individual clip before it is delivered. A parent may withdraw permission at any time, which stops any further delivery of that child's clips. It cannot recall a clip already delivered to you, and we make no attempt to.
Delivery is a download, and a delivered copy is yours to keep
We deliver by download from your request's page, which you open from the private link we email you when the request is funded. Keep that email: anyone who has the link can open the request. Once you have downloaded a clip you hold a copy we do not control and cannot retrieve. We keep our copy for the term of your licence and for 7 years afterwards for tax and contractual records; an accepted clip that is never downloaded is deleted after 18 months.
What we do not warrant
We warrant that each delivered clip met the published criteria when graded and that we had the permissions described above to deliver it. We do not warrant that the clips will be fit for any particular model, architecture or task, that they are free of artefacts a human reviewer would dislike, or that any model trained on them will perform in any particular way.
Closing, deadlines and cancellation
You may close a request at any time and be refunded the unfulfilled remainder. A request with a deadline closes automatically when it passes. Node Data may decline a request before any household sees it, or cancel it before any clip has been accepted, and refunds it in full; after that, a cancellation is a close, and accepted clips remain payable and deliverable.
You accept the version of these terms in force when you fund a request, and it is recorded against that request. Later changes do not apply to a request already funded. Requests funded before 10 October 2026 stay under the version they were funded on; none of their clips will be re-listed, because the marketplace that re-listing used has closed.