Simulation software data terms
3 of 8 simulation software vendors whose terms we read reserve the right to use their customers' data in aggregated or anonymised form, read 27 October 2026.
Vendor keeps aggregated or anonymised use
Who owns the business's data
Training AI on the business's data
Export at exit
Each vendor, answer by answer
A vendor per row. Every answer opens onto the line it comes from, quoted exactly, with the document it sits in and the day of the read. "Not stated" marks a question the document leaves unanswered.
| Vendor | Who owns the business's data | Vendor keeps aggregated or anonymised use | Training AI on the business's data | Export at exit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ansys | the business | not statedNot addressed in Ansys SimAI cloud services description | will not train | 30 days |
| Autodesk | the business | not statedNot addressed in Autodesk Terms of Use, General Terms | not statedNot addressed in Autodesk Terms of Use, General Terms | no export promised |
| COMSOL | the business | not statedNot addressed in COMSOL 6.4 Software License Agreement | not statedNot addressed in COMSOL 6.4 Software License Agreement | not statedNot addressed in COMSOL 6.4 Software License Agreement |
| Luminary Cloud | the business | reserved | will not train | 30 days |
| Onshape | the business | not statedNot addressed in Onshape Terms of Use | not statedNot addressed in Onshape Terms of Use | no export promised |
| Rescale | the business | reserved | will not trainNot addressed in Rescale Customer Agreement | 30 days Not addressed in Rescale Service Specific Terms |
| Siemens | not statedNot addressed in Siemens Artificial Intelligence Terms Not addressed in Simcenter X knowledge base article on data storage | reserved Not addressed in Simcenter X knowledge base article on data storage | not statedNot addressed in Siemens Artificial Intelligence Terms Not addressed in Simcenter X knowledge base article on data storage | 30 daysNot addressed in Siemens Artificial Intelligence Terms |
| SimScale | the business | not statedNot addressed in SimScale Terms and Conditions Not addressed in SimScale cloud infrastructure page | not statedNot addressed in SimScale Terms and Conditions Not addressed in SimScale cloud infrastructure page | 60 days Not addressed in SimScale cloud infrastructure page |
Where each answer was read (44)
- Ansys, Ansys SimAI cloud services description, read 2026-10-27, Who owns the business's data:
The Customer retains all ownership interest in Customer Content and Results.
- Ansys, Ansys SimAI cloud services description, read 2026-10-27, Vendor keeps aggregated or anonymised use: Nothing on this document answers it (6,869 characters of document text, read 2026-10-27).
- Ansys, Ansys SimAI cloud services description, read 2026-10-27, Training AI on the business's data:
Ansys shall not collect or use Customer Content or the Trained model as part of the product improvement program.
- Ansys, Ansys SimAI cloud services description, read 2026-10-27, Export at exit:
any Customer Content, Results, and Trained Model(s) stored in the Cloud Services may be deleted by Ansys within thirty (30) days
- Autodesk, Autodesk Terms of Use, General Terms, read 2026-10-08, Who owns the business's data:
You will retain Your ownership rights to files, designs, models, data sets, images, documents or similar material created by You
- Autodesk, Autodesk Terms of Use, General Terms, read 2026-10-08, Vendor keeps aggregated or anonymised use: Nothing on this document answers it (83,966 characters of document text, read 2026-10-08).
- Autodesk, Autodesk Terms of Use, General Terms, read 2026-10-08, Training AI on the business's data: Nothing on this document answers it (83,966 characters of document text, read 2026-10-08).
- Autodesk, Autodesk Terms of Use, General Terms, read 2026-10-08, Export at exit:
otherwise, Autodesk may delete, without notice, any or all of Your Content, including backup and other copies thereof.
- COMSOL, COMSOL 6.4 Software License Agreement, read 2026-10-27, Who owns the business's data:
Program Output. You shall own unrestricted rights to all computational data generated by your use of the Programs that does not reproduce substantial elements of the Programs
- COMSOL, COMSOL 6.4 Software License Agreement, read 2026-10-27, Vendor keeps aggregated or anonymised use: Nothing on this document answers it (92,495 characters of document text, read 2026-10-27).
- COMSOL, COMSOL 6.4 Software License Agreement, read 2026-10-27, Training AI on the business's data: Nothing on this document answers it (92,495 characters of document text, read 2026-10-27).
- COMSOL, COMSOL 6.4 Software License Agreement, read 2026-10-27, Export at exit: Nothing on this document answers it (92,495 characters of document text, read 2026-10-27).
- Luminary Cloud, Luminary Master License and Services Agreement, read 2026-10-27, Who owns the business's data:
Customer and its licensors own all right, title and interest, including all intellectual property rights, in and to: (a) Customer Data
- Luminary Cloud, Luminary Master License and Services Agreement, read 2026-10-27, Vendor keeps aggregated or anonymised use:
Luminary owns the Service Data and may use it to operate, support and improve its products and services, including in aggregated and anonymized form, provided that it does not identify Customer or any individual.
- Luminary Cloud, Luminary Master License and Services Agreement, read 2026-10-27, Training AI on the business's data:
Luminary will not use Customer Data to train, fine‑tune or improve any model that Luminary makes available to anyone else
- Luminary Cloud, Luminary Master License and Services Agreement, read 2026-10-27, Export at exit:
for a SaaS Deployment, Customer may export its Customer Data for thirty (30) days after the end date, after which Luminary will delete it in the ordinary course
- Onshape, Onshape Terms of Use, read 2026-10-08, Who owns the business's data:
The Customer maintains ownership of and responsibility for the following while using the Service
- Onshape, Onshape Terms of Use, read 2026-10-08, Vendor keeps aggregated or anonymised use: Nothing on this document answers it (83,526 characters of document text, read 2026-10-08).
- Onshape, Onshape Terms of Use, read 2026-10-08, Training AI on the business's data: Nothing on this document answers it (83,526 characters of document text, read 2026-10-08).
- Onshape, Onshape Terms of Use, read 2026-10-08, Export at exit:
Customer is responsible for exporting any Content, if Customer so chooses, prior to cancelling its subscription.
- Rescale, Rescale Customer Agreement, read 2026-10-27, Who owns the business's data:
As between the parties, Customer retains all intellectual property and other rights in Customer Data.
- Rescale, Rescale Customer Agreement, read 2026-10-27, Vendor keeps aggregated or anonymised use:
Rescale will not disclose Usage Data externally unless it has been (a) de-identified so that it does not individually identify Customer
- Rescale, Rescale Customer Agreement, read 2026-10-27, Training AI on the business's data: Nothing on this document answers it (45,464 characters of document text, read 2026-10-27).
- Rescale, Rescale Customer Agreement, read 2026-10-27, Export at exit:
During the term of this Agreement and for 30 days afterwards, Customer may export Customer Data from the Rescale Platform using the export features described in the Documentation.
- Rescale, Rescale Service Specific Terms, read 2026-10-27, Who owns the business's data:
As between the parties, Customer retains all ownership or license rights to Customer Data and Customer Materials.
- Rescale, Rescale Service Specific Terms, read 2026-10-27, Vendor keeps aggregated or anonymised use:
Rescale will not disclose Usage Data externally unless it has been de-identified and aggregated with usage data from other Rescale customers.
- Rescale, Rescale Service Specific Terms, read 2026-10-27, Training AI on the business's data:
Rescale will not use Customer Data, including Inputs or Outputs, to train, retrain, or fine-tune any AI-Enabled Features or third-party models, and will not permit any Model Provider to do so.
- Rescale, Rescale Service Specific Terms, read 2026-10-27, Export at exit: Nothing on this document answers it (18,187 characters of document text, read 2026-10-27).
- Siemens, Simcenter X knowledge base article on data storage, read 2026-10-27, Who owns the business's data: Nothing on this document answers it (1,461 characters of document text, read 2026-10-27).
- Siemens, Simcenter X knowledge base article on data storage, read 2026-10-27, Vendor keeps aggregated or anonymised use: Nothing on this document answers it (1,461 characters of document text, read 2026-10-27).
- Siemens, Simcenter X knowledge base article on data storage, read 2026-10-27, Training AI on the business's data: Nothing on this document answers it (1,461 characters of document text, read 2026-10-27).
- Siemens, Simcenter X knowledge base article on data storage, read 2026-10-27, Export at exit:
the customer must be able to access their data for at least 30 days after the end of the subscription period.
- Siemens, Siemens Artificial Intelligence Terms, read 2026-10-27, Who owns the business's data: Nothing on this document answers it (3,891 characters of document text, read 2026-10-27).
- Siemens, Siemens Artificial Intelligence Terms, read 2026-10-27, Vendor keeps aggregated or anonymised use:
provided that any Systems Information derived from Customer content may only be used to improve products and services when aggregated with other information so that the original content is not identifiable
- Siemens, Siemens Artificial Intelligence Terms, read 2026-10-27, Training AI on the business's data: Nothing on this document answers it (3,891 characters of document text, read 2026-10-27).
- Siemens, Siemens Artificial Intelligence Terms, read 2026-10-27, Export at exit: Nothing on this document answers it (3,891 characters of document text, read 2026-10-27).
- SimScale, SimScale Terms and Conditions, read 2026-10-27, Who owns the business's data:
Ownership of and responsibility for all designs, analyses, simulations, models, estimations, data and other results uploaded by Customer and/or Permitted Users within the Services or generated by Customer and/or Permitted Users through use of the Services (collectively, the “Content”) shall fully remain with Customer
- SimScale, SimScale Terms and Conditions, read 2026-10-27, Vendor keeps aggregated or anonymised use: Nothing on this document answers it (42,042 characters of document text, read 2026-10-27).
- SimScale, SimScale Terms and Conditions, read 2026-10-27, Training AI on the business's data: Nothing on this document answers it (42,042 characters of document text, read 2026-10-27).
- SimScale, SimScale Terms and Conditions, read 2026-10-27, Export at exit:
For a period of sixty (60) days following the end of the Subscription Term or following any downgrade of a Paid Plan to a Free Plan pursuant to Clause 2.4, Customer shall be entitled to create backup copies of the Professional Content.
- SimScale, SimScale cloud infrastructure page, read 2026-10-27, Who owns the business's data:
Engineering data stays under customer ownership and control throughout, with isolated, auditable environments for every model development cycle.
- SimScale, SimScale cloud infrastructure page, read 2026-10-27, Vendor keeps aggregated or anonymised use: Nothing on this document answers it (6,297 characters of document text, read 2026-10-27).
- SimScale, SimScale cloud infrastructure page, read 2026-10-27, Training AI on the business's data: Nothing on this document answers it (6,297 characters of document text, read 2026-10-27).
- SimScale, SimScale cloud infrastructure page, read 2026-10-27, Export at exit: Nothing on this document answers it (6,297 characters of document text, read 2026-10-27).
Set aside after reading
12 named documents fell outside what this board reads once we had read them; their reasons follow. They are tallied, never scored as answers.
- COMSOL, ComsolMultiphysicsGmbH_Terms_and_Conditions_Nov_3_2020.pdf: COMSOL GmbH's terms of sale for licences; nothing on the customer's models or results
- COMSOL, COMSOL Privacy Policy: COMSOL's privacy policy for personal information; nothing on a customer's models or results
- Luminary Cloud, Luminary - Privacy Policy (27 April 2026): Luminary's privacy policy for personal information; the customer-data clauses are in its Master License and Services Agreement
- SimScale, SimScale GmbH | Data Privacy Statement | SimScale: SimScale's privacy statement for personal information; nothing on a customer's simulation content
- COMSOL, COMSOL Software License Agreement: COMSOL's index of licence agreement versions, with no terms in its own text
- MathWorks, MathWorks Privacy Policy - MATLAB & Simulink: MathWorks' privacy policy for personal information; it says nothing about a customer's models, simulation results or files
- MathWorks, MATLAB Copilot FAQs - MATLAB & Simulink: MATLAB Copilot FAQ: the question on training is listed but its answer is not in the stored text
- Monolith AI, Read Our Fair Usage Policy | Monolith: Monolith's fair usage policy on compute and storage limits; the data clauses are in its Master License Agreement, not published
- Neural Concept, Privacy Policy | Neural Concept: Neural Concept's privacy policy for personal information; nothing on a customer's engineering data
- nTop, Privacy Policy • nTop: nTop's privacy policy for personal information; nothing on a customer's designs or results
- Ansys (Synopsys), ansys-simai-ansys-cloud-platform-modular-contract-clickwrap.pdf: the SimAI clickwrap carries the same SimAI data clauses as the SimAI cloud services description, which is the document this board reads them from
- Ansys (Synopsys), ansys-assistant-terms-of-use-6-24-2025.pdf: the Ansys Assistant chatbot's terms, about prompts typed into a help assistant, not about simulation results
Method
Each vendor's own published terms were read through estate-fetch and stored whole (sha256 on every row).
For every document, four questions were answered from the vendor's own words: who owns the business's data, vendor keeps aggregated or anonymised use, training AI on the business's data, export at exit.
Every stated answer carries the sentence it rests on, checked against the stored text; 'not stated' means the document read does not address the question.
A vendor with several documents reads 'varies' where they disagree.
8 vendors, 11 documents.
Source list (23)
- Ansys (Synopsys), cloud-services-description-ansys-simai.pdf (the vendor's published terms, cited for reporting)
- COMSOL, ComsolMultiphysicsGmbH_Terms_and_Conditions_Nov_3_2020.pdf (read, set aside)
- COMSOL, COMSOL_SoftwareLicenseAgreement.pdf (the vendor's published terms, cited for reporting)
- COMSOL, COMSOL Privacy Policy (read, set aside)
- Luminary Cloud, Luminary - Privacy Policy (27 April 2026) (read, set aside)
- Luminary Cloud, Luminary Master License and Services Agreement (the vendor's published terms, cited for reporting)
- Rescale, Customer Agreement - Rescale (the vendor's published terms, cited for reporting)
- Rescale, Rescale Service Specific Terms - Rescale (the vendor's published terms, cited for reporting)
- SimScale, SimScale GmbH | Data Privacy Statement | SimScale (read, set aside)
- SimScale, Cloud-Based CAE Platform Terms & Conditions | SimScale (the vendor's published terms, cited for reporting)
- Siemens Simcenter, Knowledge Base Article: How long does Simcenter X store my data? (the vendor's published terms, cited for reporting)
- Autodesk, Autodesk | 3D Design, Engineering & Construction Software (the vendor's published terms, cited for reporting)
- COMSOL, COMSOL Software License Agreement (read, set aside)
- MathWorks, MathWorks Privacy Policy - MATLAB & Simulink (read, set aside)
- MathWorks, MATLAB Copilot FAQs - MATLAB & Simulink (read, set aside)
- Monolith AI, Read Our Fair Usage Policy | Monolith (read, set aside)
- Neural Concept, Privacy Policy | Neural Concept (read, set aside)
- nTop, Privacy Policy • nTop (read, set aside)
- Onshape, Terms of Use (the vendor's published terms, cited for reporting)
- Siemens Simcenter, Artificial Intelligence Terms | Siemens (the vendor's published terms, cited for reporting)
- SimScale, Cloud Simulation Infrastructure | SimScale Simulation at Scale (the vendor's published terms, cited for reporting)
- Ansys (Synopsys), ansys-simai-ansys-cloud-platform-modular-contract-clickwrap.pdf (read, set aside)
- Ansys (Synopsys), ansys-assistant-terms-of-use-6-24-2025.pdf (read, set aside)
Cite it or embed it
3 of 8 simulation software vendors whose terms we read reserve the right to use their customers' data in aggregated or anonymised form, read 27 October 2026.
Who owns the business's data, by vendor: the business 7 of 8, not stated 1 of 8 (simulation software terms, read 27 October 2026).
Vendor keeps aggregated or anonymised use, by vendor: not stated 5 of 8, reserved 3 of 8 (simulation software terms, read 27 October 2026).
Training AI on the business's data, by vendor: not stated 5 of 8, will not train 3 of 8 (simulation software terms, read 27 October 2026).
Export at exit, by vendor: a number of days 5 of 8, no export promised 2 of 8, not stated 1 of 8 (simulation software terms, read 27 October 2026).
Suggested citation: "Simulation software data terms", updated 2026-10-27, https://sellsimulationdatatoai.com/datasets/simulation-software-data-terms/.
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