{"object":"determination","schema_version":"1","vendor":"Anthropic","state":"conditional","sentence":"Contracting entity depends on your region or order form — read the clause.","qualifier":"GLEIF records the entity's own reporting exception for its parent (NO_KNOWN_PERSON, read [2026-09-13]). These Commercial Terms cover Anthropic API keys and other business offerings that reference them. They state that they do NOT govern consumer use of Claude.ai, which is under separate Consumer Terms this record does not cover.","contracting_entity":"Anthropic, PBC (customers residing anywhere outside the EEA, Switzerland or UK); Anthropic Ireland, Limited (customers residing in the EEA, Switzerland or UK)","jurisdiction":"United States (Anthropic, PBC) / Ireland (Anthropic Ireland, Limited)","governing_law":"Two-track, per Sec. M.7 (Governing Law; Venue). EEA, Switzerland or UK customers: the Laws of Ireland, with suits instituted exclusively in the courts of Ireland. All other customers: the laws of the State of California, with suits instituted exclusively in federal or state courts located in California. Both tracks are subject first to the arbitration provisions in Section J (Disputes).","conditions":["The contracting entity depends on your region or order form: read the clause for your position.","The agreement is under a governing law that depends on where the customer is based.","These Commercial Terms cover Anthropic API keys and other business offerings that reference them. They state that they do NOT govern consumer use of Claude.ai, which is under separate Consumer Terms this record does not cover."],"us_control":{"status":"region_dependent","finding":"Region-dependent — a US entity contracts in some regions; elsewhere a non-US entity does, and whether a US company controls it is not established","parent":null,"legal_reach":"More than one contracting entity is on record, and which one a buyer signs with depends on facts about the buyer, such as where it is. The record does not establish US corporate control on every track, so it makes no single finding on US legal reach.","caveat":null,"rule":"A provider subject to US jurisdiction can be required by valid US legal process to produce data in its possession, custody or control wherever it is located (CLOUD Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2713). A US-incorporated contracting entity is subject to US jurisdiction. A non-US contracting entity under US corporate control may be within reach through that control, depending on whether the parent controls the data and on the circumstances; where that control has not been established, the entity is not thereby beyond reach.","rule_url":"/static/manifesto.html#us-reach-rule"},"evidence":{"source_url":"https://www.anthropic.com/legal/commercial-terms","document_title":"Commercial Terms of Service \\ Anthropic","date_read":"2026-08-08","last_rechecked":{"last_check":"unreadable","gate":"refused","date":null,"words":"clause last confirmed 17 Sep 2026; its host's terms forbid automated re-reading, so it is not re-checked"},"quote":null,"quote_carried_by":"the AI Subprocessor Jurisdiction Report ($299), which quotes the clause each finding rests on"},"not_established":["us_control"]}