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An adviser who is also a buyer's referral partner may not shop your records elsewhere, and under Mode's terms is paid only if you license everything

Mode's Affiliate Referral Agreement (Version 2.1, published 24 Oct 2026) pays its affiliate only on a full-corpus licence, a copy of substantially all of a company's operational records; a single dataset, a sample, a partial set, a pilot or an evaluation earns nothing. The affiliate may not charge or accept any fee from the company it refers, and for the agreement's term and a year after may not encourage that company to license or sell its records to anyone other than Mode. An affiliate that advises or brokers for the company must disclose in writing, before the company signs, that it receives a referral fee and how it is calculated. Grepped's referral terms carry the same kind of bar: while they apply and for 12 months after, a referrer may not arrange or assist the sale or licence of a referred owner's data other than through Grepped.

Dated 24 Oct 2026Source checked 27 Oct 2026Page out of reach at the last check, 4 Nov 2026Basis: strong