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Have an offer for your data? Check it before you sign.
Enter what the buyer offered and on what terms. You will see what you would keep, where the amount sits against a valuation of your records and against the buyer's own estimator, the clauses in that buyer's published terms to read first, in its own words, and the questions to send back. Nothing leaves your browser.
Who made the offer?
Set each term to what the offer says. Where it says nothing, leave the marked choice and ask the buyer.
Exclusivity
How long the licence lasts
Perpetual if the offer says perpetual, irrevocable or names no end.
What the buyer may do with it
May the buyer pass it on to others?
Look for "sublicense" or "transferable" in the licence grant.
Must you promise you have not licensed it elsewhere?
A warranty that no one else holds the same data on similar terms.
Who removes the personal data?
When you are paid
Days the buyer has to reject the data after delivery
Your company
Our range and the buyer's estimator are worked out from these.
Status
People, at the company's largest
Years of records
Where it is based
Language of the records
What the offer comes to
Now, the amount offered
With the buyer and the amount, you see where the offer sits, what you would keep and what to ask before you sign.
Handshake AI's published terms
The clauses Handshake AI publishes, in its own words, most costly first. Read on the day shown; these terms change, so check the page before you sign.
Licence and use
Use is restricted by contract to AI model training and evaluation; you keep ownership, and the scope, approved uses, protections and compensation are agreed before any transfer.
“Handshake is contractually restricted to using the data for AI model training and evaluation only. ... Your company retains ownership of its data, and the scope, approved uses, protections, and compensation are agreed upon before any data is transferred.”
Our reading: No standard licence is published, so the contract is the only place the term, exclusivity and resale are set.
joinhandshake.com, read 17 Oct 2026When you are paid
Payment terms are negotiated in each agreement and tied to delivery milestones; it quotes a price within 12 to 24 hours of the details it needs, and closes in 7 to 14 business days.
“Payment terms are negotiated as part of your agreement and tied to defined delivery milestones. ... we can provide an initial review and pricing within 12–24 hours. From there, the full process typically takes 7–14 business days to finalize your transaction.”
Our reading: Milestone payments mean money arrives in parts as data is delivered, so what triggers each part, and what happens to it if a delivery is disputed, is set in the contract.
joinhandshake.com, read 17 Oct 2026Who removes personal data
Handshake removes direct and indirect business and personal identifiers itself, before it uses the data for training and evaluation.
“Handshake AI utilizes structured processes designed to remove direct and indirect business and personal identifiers from datasets prior to using them for training and evaluation of AI models.”
Our reading: The page no longer says you hand over the data as it exists today (it did until October 2026), nor whether personal details are still in the data when it reaches Handshake: removal happens before use, and you can mark sensitive information as out of scope.
joinhandshake.com, read 17 Oct 2026Other
Handshake says its de-identification is designed to minimise the risk of re-identification, and that no de-identification process removes that risk entirely.
“Note that these processes are designed to minimize the risk of re-identification of the dataset, however, no de-identification process eliminates that risk entirely.”
Our reading: Handshake concedes the re-identification risk remains after its process, and its page no longer says who carries the legal risk of the transfer, so the contract has to.
joinhandshake.com, read 17 Oct 2026
Not published: Licence term, Exclusivity, Who pays for de-identification. Ask for each in writing.
Research from the buyers' public pages, last read 17 Oct 2026. It is not legal advice and not an offer: a sale needs a lawyer who has read the contract. Nothing you enter here is sent or saved.