Rights & de-identification checklist
You can legally license your company data only if you hold the rights to it, your client and employee obligations allow it, and personal data is removed to a defensible standard before transfer. This checklist is the five gates a careful buyer checks — run it before any manifest is shared. It is general information, not legal advice.
By LicenseMyDataToAI.com · Reviewed 10 November 2026
The five gates
- Ownership. The records are your company's own operating records. Client files you hold for someone else, candidate data, and anything you merely have access to are not yours to license — buyers exclude them and so do we.
- Contracts & NDAs. Client agreements, confidentiality clauses and investor/shareholder terms checked for anything covering internal records or derivatives.
- Privacy. What your privacy notices and employee communications said about record use; personal data mapped so it can be removed. Sector rules (health, finance, legal privilege) can exclude whole categories — healthcare records are out of scope for this service entirely.
- Platform terms. The tools you export from have terms — for example Slack/Salesforce restricted bulk export and third-party LLM training use in a May 2025 API terms update. Export routes must comply with the platform's current terms.
- De-identification. Names, emails, phone numbers, IDs and free-text identifiers removed or masked to an agreed standard, in samples as well as delivery — with a named owner for the standard and who warrants it.
What never gets shared at stage one
- No raw records, exports or screenshots for an estimate
- No system logins or API keys
- No customer lists or client-identifiable material in a manifest
Run the gates with us on the interview
Six questions, seven minutes, and a straight answer on whether your records can be licensed.
Sources — checked November 2026
- CorpusMarket pricing/rights guide — platform terms and rights factors, checked November 2026.
- Buyer programme pages (micro1, Mercor) — exclusion and fit language, checked November 2026.
General information only — not legal, tax or financial advice. Your counsel makes the final call on your records.
Cite this entry: License My Data to AI. “Can You Legally License Your Company Data? Rights & De-Identification Checklist.” Content reviewed 10 November 2026. Figures on this page are published buyer ranges with sources and check dates shown — they are not offers.