AI Training Data Governance Policy

The default rule is No. Here is what vendor contracts must say – and what the approval process is for everything else.

For Whom: Legal teams, DPOs, and procurement leads evaluating AI vendor contracts and establishing internal policies on AI model training.

The Pain: The most common hidden risk in AI vendor contracts is silence on model training. Vendors whose terms say ‘we may use your data to improve our services’ may be using your customer data to train their AI.

What’s Inside: Data permission matrix by tier, default vendor prohibition rule with required contract language, permitted exceptions framework, internal training approval process, customer data prohibition, and data lineage requirements.