When does Dog Haus license the use of Dog Haus data to the franchisee?
Dog_Haus Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
All data pertaining to your Franchised Restaurant and all data you create or collect in connection with your operation of the Franchised Restaurant, including, data pertaining to, or otherwise concerning, the Franchised Restaurant's customers, or that you otherwise collect including data uploaded to, or downloaded from your computer system, or data uploaded, downloaded, or created using any artificial intelligence program is Dog Haus data and is our sole property. We have the right to review and use the Dog Haus data in any manner that we deem appropriate without any compensation to you. You just provide us with copies and/or originals of the Dog Haus data within 5 days after our request for the Dog Haus data at no cost to us and at any time during the term of your Franchise Agreement and upon the expiration and/or termination of your Franchise Agreement. We license the use of the Dog Haus data to you during the term of your Franchise Agreement, at no cost to you, solely for your use in the operation of your Franchised Restaurant. You must maintain the Dog Haus data as secret and confidential must not make any of the Dog Haus data available to any unauthorized person without our prior written consent of and then only in the manner we permit.
Source: Item 14 — PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS AND PROPRIETARY INFORMATION (FDD pages 60–61)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Dog Haus's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, Dog Haus licenses the use of Dog Haus data to the franchisee during the term of the Franchise Agreement. This license is provided at no cost to the franchisee and is solely for use in the operation of their franchised restaurant.
This means that while a franchisee is operating under the Dog Haus brand, they are permitted to use the data collected from their restaurant to manage and improve their business. However, this right is contingent upon maintaining the confidentiality of the data and only using it as permitted by Dog Haus.
Upon expiration or termination of the Franchise Agreement, the franchisee's right to use the Dog Haus data ceases. The franchisee must also keep the data secret and confidential and cannot share it with anyone unless Dog Haus gives prior written consent.