Kaggle Terms of Use, Section 9: rights in a competition entry pass only when the winner accepts the prize (Effective Date: June 22, 2025) (Kaggle Terms of Use, Section 9, Competition Entries)
The money on Kaggle is prize money: a competition's host gets rights in an entry beyond the limited licences only when the winner accepts the prize. A prize rewards a winning entry; it is not a price for a dataset.
Dated 31 Oct 2026Source checked 31 Oct 2026Basis: primary text
Selling a company's data? This is one of the rules a sale has to meet, and the guide beside the button reads it in plain words.
- No data upload
- About two minutes
- No email needed
In the source's own words
“If you win a Competition, your Competition Entry for such Competition will be subject to further licensing as stated in the Competition Rules, but other than the limited licenses stated in these Terms, the intellectual property rights in your Competition Entries will not be transferred or licensed to the Competition Sponsor or Host User unless you accept the payment of the applicable prize stated in the applicable Competition Rules.”
Where it was read
Also read from the same source
- Kaggle Terms of Use, Section 9: the licences a user grants when it shares a Dataset publicly (Effective Date: June 22, 2025) (Kaggle Terms of Use, Section 9 (Do I have to grant any licenses to Kaggle or to other users?))
- Kaggle Terms of Use: use of the Services only for internal, personal, non-commercial use (Effective Date: June 22, 2025) (Kaggle Terms of Use, What are the basics of using Kaggle?)
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