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Descript

Vannus records that this vendor routes across several model providers — not captured by one. Every finding below is quoted to the vendor’s own document, or marked not disclosed where the vendor publishes nothing.

Determination
Contracts with Descript, Inc. (United States) — within reach of US legal process.
descript.com · read 2026-09-14
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Contracting entity
Descript, Inc.
Jurisdiction
United States
Governing law
the laws of the State of California, without resort to its conflict of law provisions
US corporate control
The contracting entity is a US entity, so US law may have legal reach over it and the data it controls. the rule

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What the vendor's own documentation says
Anthropic API (Claude, Claude Code)
descript.com ↗ Vendor-sourcedQuote last confirmed 14 Sep 2026; its host's terms forbid automated re-reading, so it is not re-checked
Who controls it
Data jurisdictionUnited States · a privacy notice ↗
US corporate controlYes — a US parent or US contracting entity is on the public record · clause last confirmed 17 Sep 2026; its host's terms forbid automated re-reading, so it is not re-checked
Contracting entityDescript, Inc.
Governing lawthe laws of the State of California, without resort to its conflict of law provisions
Trains on your dataYes, unless you opt out — on the vendor's default plan
On a paid or enterprise planNo separate paid-plan position recorded

This page gives the finding and links the document it comes from. The AI Subprocessor Jurisdiction Report ($299) quotes the clause this finding rests on, and the clause for each other vendor in your stack where the report can quote one, in one dated document you can hand to an auditor.

Applies to: Enterprise (data sharing off by default, no toggle). All other plans: opt-out via the 'Share data with Descript' setting.

From the AI FAQ: “Enterprise drives do not have the option to toggle data sharing, which is disabled by default.” help.descript.com ↗

Training and retention posture varies by plan. The default-plan row above describes the vendor’s free or standard tier; the paid-plan row is quoted from the document linked beside it. A negotiated contract can override either. Check your own agreement before relying on this.

On U.S. CLOUD Act reach specifically: the statute reaches a provider subject to U.S. jurisdiction over data in its possession, custody or control. Corporate control is a strong indicator of that and it is what we can evidence from published documents — but it is not the whole test. A company founded outside the U.S. can still contract through a U.S. entity or run substantial U.S. operations. Treat this as a starting point for your own review, not a legal determination, and take advice on anything that matters.

Record history

This is the history of our record of this vendor: when we first recorded it; each time one of these changed: the determination sentence, the contracting entity, its country, the governing law, the US-control finding, what the answer depends on, the note beside the finding, or the cited document; and each time the vendor's document was read again and none of them changed. A change only in capitals, punctuation or spacing is not a line, and neither is a first document title. A line names what changed and does not repeat what those fields said before; the determination above says what they say now. Where the determination sentence itself changed, the line shows the earlier sentence too, marked as before, with why it changed. The automated re-check's latest result is not a line here; it is printed beside the clause above. A change here may be the vendor changing its document or us correcting our reading of it, and a line says which only where the record shows it; otherwise it says the cause is not established. Each line is today's reading of the record as it stood on that date. A reading we later found its citation does not carry was withdrawn, and is not repeated here. This history as data.

Signals on file
Data jurisdiction
United States

The vendor's published or catalog-recorded posture — the concrete facts this entry is built from. A full audit verifies each against the vendor's current documentation.

Cite this record
Descript: “Contracts with Descript, Inc. (United States) — within reach of US legal process.”
Vannus, https://vannus.co/tool/descript
descript.com · read 2026-09-14

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