Vanta Evaluation Terms & Conditions
Last Updated: November 1, 2026
THESE VANTA EVALUATION TERMS AND CONDITIONS (“EVALUATION TERMS”) ARE PART OF A LEGAL CONTRACT BETWEEN VANTA INC. (“VANTA”) AND THE ENTITY OR PERSON PLACING AN ORDER FOR, OR OTHERWISE ACCESSING, THE SERVICES (DEFINED BELOW) ON A FREE TRIAL BASIS (“CUSTOMER” OR “YOU”). BY USING OR CREATING A FREE TRIAL ACCOUNT AND/OR ACCESSING THE SERVICES ON A FREE TRIAL BASIS, CUSTOMER IS IRREVOCABLY AGREEING TO ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS HEREIN. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE EVALUATION TERMS, YOU SHOULD NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICES. IF YOU ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICES ON BEHALF OF AN ENTITY, YOU HEREBY REPRESENT AND WARRANT TO VANTA THAT YOU HAVE THE ACTUAL AUTHORITY TO BIND SUCH ENTITY TO THE EVALUATION TERMS.
THE “EFFECTIVE DATE” OF THESE EVALUATION TERMS IS THE DATE WHICH IS THE EARLIER OF (A) CUSTOMER’S INITIAL ACCESS TO THE SERVICES THROUGH ANY ONLINE PROVISIONING OR REGISTRATION OR (B) THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE FIRST ORDER FORM REFERENCING THESE EVALUATION TERMS (“TRIAL ORDER FORM”).
Terms and Conditions
1. Temporary License Grants; Ownership. During the Evaluation Period (defined below) and subject to the provisions of these Evaluation Terms, Vanta grants to Customer a limited, non-sublicensable, non-transferable, non-exclusive royalty-free right to access and use Vanta’s software-as-a-service governance, risk and compliance platform (“Services”) and related documentation solely for Customer’s evaluation of the Services to determine whether Customer has an interest in purchasing a paid subscription therefor (“Evaluation”). Customer grants to Vanta a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable right and license to use data Customer uploads to the Services (“Customer Information”) solely to provide the Services to Customer for the Evaluation. Each Party will retain all rights, title and interest in any of its patents, inventions, copyrights, trademarks, domain names, trade secrets, know-how and any other intellectual property and proprietary rights (“Intellectual Property Rights”). Vanta will retain all Intellectual Property Rights in and to the Services and all components of, or used to provide, the Services and any other materials developed by Vanta in its performance hereunder that derive from, improve, enhance or modify the Services or other Vanta pre-existing intellectual property. Customer will retain all Intellectual Property Rights in the Customer Information.
2. Restrictions. Customer will not, and will not permit third parties to (a) “frame”, distribute, resell, or permit access to the Services by any third party other than as allowed by the features and functionality of the Services, (b) successfully or otherwise, attempt to: decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, discover the underlying source code or structure of, or copy the Services, (c) extract information from the Services, or otherwise access or use the Services, in furtherance of replicating the Services or otherwise competing with Vanta or (d) remove or otherwise alter any proprietary notices or labels from the Services or any portion thereof. Customer will not access or use the Services if Customer or any Authorized Users are located in any jurisdiction in which the provision of the Services, software, or other components is prohibited under U.S. or other applicable laws or regulations (a “Prohibited Jurisdiction”) and Customer will not provide access to the Services to any government, entity, or individual located in any Prohibited Jurisdiction.
3. Confidentiality. In connection with the Evaluation, the Parties may exchange or provide access to certain confidential, proprietary, and/or non-public information that is either (a) designated as “confidential” at the time of disclosure or (b) would be reasonably understood to be of a confidential nature, taking into account the content of the information and the circumstances of its disclosure (collectively, “Confidential Information”). Confidential Information of a disclosing Party includes, but is not limited to, information regarding the business affairs, customers, clients, suppliers, plans, or market opportunities and the operations, processes, product information, know-how, designs, trade secrets, documentation, software, and any information or analysis derived from Confidential Information. “Confidential Information” shall not include any information or materials that: (w) is or becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of a disclosure of Confidential Information in violation of this Section; (x) is or becomes available to the receiving Party on a non-confidential basis from a source that is entitled to disclose it; (y) was known to or in the possession of the receiving Party prior to its disclosure to it by the disclosing Party; or (z) is independently developed by the receiving Party without any reference to or use of the other Party’s Confidential Information. Each party shall maintain the confidentiality of the Confidential Information of the other Party using the same degree of care that the receiving Party uses to protect its own Confidential Information of a similar type (but in no event less than reasonable care). Except as expressly permitted in this Section, the receiving Party will not disclose, duplicate, publish, transfer or otherwise make available Confidential Information of the disclosing Party in any form to any person or entity without the disclosing Party’s prior written consent; provided the receiving Party may disclose Confidential Information to its and its affiliates’ employees and contractors who have a legitimate need to know such information and who are bound by obligations of confidentiality and non-use at least as protective of the Confidential Information as those in this Section. The receiving Party will not use the disclosing Party’s Confidential Information except to perform its obligations or exercise its rights under these Evaluation Terms, such obligations including, in the case of Vanta, to provide the Services for the Evaluation. Each Party may disclose the other Party's Confidential Information to the extent required under applicable law, so long as, to the extent legally permitted, the receiving Party gives the disclosing Party prompt written notice of the requirement prior to the disclosure and assistance in obtaining an order protecting the Confidential Information from public disclosure.
4. Security. Vanta will implement and maintain appropriate administrative, physical and technical safeguards during the Evaluation Period to protect the security, confidentiality and integrity of Customer Information, as described at https://www.vanta.com/legal/information-security-addendum.
5. Artificial Intelligence. Customer acknowledges that the Services offer features that leverage the use of artificial intelligence, machine learning, or similar technologies provided by Vanta and/or its licensors (“AI Features”). Customer will have the ability to disable AI Features within the Services at the admin level for all Authorized Users by using the functionality of the Services. Vanta will not, and will not permit any third party to, use any Customer Information to train any artificial intelligence or machine learning models. VANTA MAKES NO COVENANTS, REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES REGARDING ANY OUTPUTS GENERATED, TRANSMITTED OR MADE AVAILABLE IN CONNECTION WITH CUSTOMER’S OR ANY AUTHORIZED USER’S USE OF AI FEATURES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WITH RESPECT TO THE ACCURACY, QUALITY OR TRUTHFULNESS THEREOF.
6. Evaluation Period. The evaluation period shall commence on the Effective Date and continue for fourteen (14) days (“Evaluation Period”), unless earlier terminated in accordance with Section 7 or extended via mutual written agreement of the Parties.
7. Termination. The Evaluation and/or any Trial Order Form may be terminated by either Party for any reason at any time by giving written notice to the other Party. Unless terminated earlier in accordance with this Section, these Evaluation Terms will automatically terminate upon expiration of the Evaluation Period. Upon termination of these Evaluation Terms, Customer will have no further right to use the Services under the and Vanta will remove Customer’s access to the same and, unless Customer enters into an order form for the same products as those covered by the Evaluation, Vanta will permanently delete all Customer Information following the end of the Evaluation Period.
8. Warranty Disclaimer. THE PARTIES ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. THE PARTIES FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGE THAT VANTA SHALL HAVE NO SUPPORT OBLIGATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICES.
9. Limitation of Liability. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, EXCLUDING (A) CUSTOMER’S VIOLATION OF VANTA’S INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OR (B) A PARTY’S GROSS NEGLIGENCE, WILLFUL MISCONDUCT OR FRAUD, (1) NEITHER PARTY OR ITS AFFILIATES OR LICENSORS SHALL BE LIABLE TO THE OTHER PARTY OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL CONSEQUENTIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES INCURRED BY SUCH PARTY WITH RESPECT TO ANY SUBJECT MATTER OF THESE EVALUATION TERMS, AND (2) THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF EACH PARTY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE EVALUATION TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED $1,000 IN THE AGGREGATE.
10. Miscellaneous. These Evaluation Terms and any Trial Order Form (if applicable) constitutes the entire agreement between the Parties pertaining to the subject matter hereof, and any and all written or oral agreements heretofore existing between the Parties are expressly canceled. No terms or conditions stated in a Customer purchase order, vendor onboarding process or web portal, or any other Customer order documentation (excluding Trial Order Forms) shall be incorporated into, or considered an amendment to, these Evaluation Terms or any Trial Order Form and all such terms or conditions are hereby deemed null and void, notwithstanding any language to the contrary therein. The Parties are independent contractors. Nothing in these Evaluation Terms is intended to or will operate to create a partnership between the Parties or authorize either Party to act as agent for the other, and neither Party shall have the authority to act in the name or on behalf of or otherwise to bind the other in any way. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, Customer shall have no obligation to purchase the Services offered by Vanta after the Evaluation Period. Any notice given under these Evaluation Terms shall be in writing and sent by email to the other Party's email address as set out in the signature blocks below (or such other email address as the other Party may have notified in accordance with the foregoing). A notice sent by email shall be deemed to have been received at the time of transmission. Any modifications of these Evaluation Terms must be in writing and signed by both Parties. Neither the rights nor the obligations arising under these Evaluation Terms are assignable or transferable by either party without the prior written consent of the other Party, except to a successor to all or substantially all of Vanta’s assets or business. Any such attempted assignment or transfer in violation of the foregoing shall be void and without effect. These Evaluation Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California and any disputes under these Evaluation Terms shall be resolved exclusively in a court of competent jurisdiction in San Francisco County, California. In any action to enforce these Evaluation Terms, the prevailing Party will be entitled to costs and attorneys’ fees. In the event that any of the provisions of these Evaluation Terms shall be held by a court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable, such provisions shall be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary so that these Evaluation Terms shall otherwise remain in full force and effect and enforceable.
