DroneDeploy
DroneDeploy captures complete visual records of construction and industrial sites using drones, robots, and 360 cameras, then applies AI agents to automatically track progress, detect quality defects, and identify safety risks. Used on 3 million sites across 180 countries, it serves construction teams, owners, and enterprises in data centers, energy, mining, and utilities who need unified reality capture data from site selection through closeout.
DroneDeploy is a reality capture platform that uses drones, robots, 360 cameras, and AI agents to give construction teams, owners, and enterprises complete visual records of their sites. The platform automatically analyzes captured imagery to track construction progress with earthworks analysis and schedule quantification, detect quality defects ranked by severity (rust, leaks, debris), and identify safety risks such as missing toe boards or tripping hazards. DroneDeploy unifies data from multiple capture sources—drones, ground robots, 360 cameras, fixed cameras, and smartphones—into a single system of record that spans the entire project lifecycle from site selection through closeout, with integrations to Procore, Autodesk Build, BIM 360, and cloud storage services. The platform's vision-language AI is trained on billions of square feet of real-world construction and industrial data, enabling it to understand site-specific context and deliver actionable insights. Used on 3 million sites across 180 countries, it serves construction, data centers, energy, mining, utilities, agriculture, and roofing sectors. DroneDeploy offers flexible deployment options—customers can capture data themselves or use DroneDeploy's capture services—with pricing ranging from individual pilot plans starting at $159/month to custom enterprise quotes, and includes enterprise-grade security (ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2, NIST 800-53 compliance) with SSO and role-based access controls.
DroneDeploy grants itself a broad license to use Customer Content for improving services and products, but this is limit
No training opt-out mechanism was identified in the legal documents.
High risk across multiple dimensions. Only use with public, non-sensitive data.
DroneDeploy grants itself a broad license to use Customer Content for improving services and products, but this is limited to purposes necessary for service provision, maintenance, and improvement. The language is somewhat permissive but includes reasonable limitations.
“Company hereby grants to Company and its Affiliates a license to access, use, process, copy, distribute, perform, export and display any Customer Content only as reasonably necessary (a) to provide, maintain, improve and update Company's and its Affiliates products and services”
The license granted by customers to DroneDeploy is quite broad. It covers access, use, processing, copying, distribution, performance, export and display of Customer Content for multiple purposes including service improvement. The scope extends beyond minimal operational necessity.
“Customer hereby grants to Company and its Affiliates a license to access, use, process, copy, distribute, perform, export and display any Customer Content only as reasonably necessary (a) to provide, maintain, improve and update Company's and its Affiliates products and services”
DroneDeploy shares Customer Content with third-party service providers and allows Third Party Services to access Customer Content. The company uses third-party vendors for communications storage and payment processing. Data sharing with third parties is explicitly permitted.
“If Customer uses a Third Party Service with or as part of the Service, Customer grants Company permission to allow the Third Party Service and its provider to access Customer Content and information about Customer's usage of the Third Party Service”
DroneDeploy provides a 30-day export window after termination, after which they may delete Customer Content. Customers can request account deletion, but the company has discretion in verification. This is moderate - not indefinite retention but limited deletion rights.
“Upon request by Customer made within 30 days after the effective date of termination or expiration of this Agreement, Company will make Customer Content available to Customer for export or download. After such 30-day period, Company will have no obligation to maintain or provide any Customer Content”
The agreement clearly states that customers own all right, title and interest in Customer Content. Company assigns any content it creates via the Services to the customer. IP ownership is favorable to the customer.
“As between the parties, Customer is the author/creator of and owns all right, title and interest in Customer Content. To the extent that Company is held to be the author/creator of any Customer Content created via the Services, Company hereby assigns to Customer all right, title and interest in such Customer Content”
The agreement references GDPR DPA and CCPA DPA as separate agreements but does not explicitly list SOC2, HIPAA, or ISO certifications in the provided text. Some compliance frameworks are addressed through separate DPAs, but comprehensive certification information is not detailed.
“the Company's GDPR Data Processing Agreement, available at https://www.dronedeploy.com/legal/gdpr-data-processing-agreement and the Company's CCPA Data Processing Agreement, available at https://dronedeploy.com/legal/california-data-processing-agreement”
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