Companies/ai
Anthropic
Current privacy policylast checked 8/15/2026healthy
What Anthropic takes from you. Straight from the captured policy. Tap any row for the exact quote.
Browsing activityPages you visit and things you tap or click.Collected
“browsing history, search, information about the links you click and about third-party applications, services, and content you integrate or interact with, pages you view”
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Device identifiersSerial numbers and IDs that mark your phone or laptop.Collected
“identifiers (including device or advertising identifiers, probabilistic identifiers, and other unique personal or online identifiers)”
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Email addressThe email you sign up or log in with.Collected
“Name, ID, phone number, email, address, and other information that you may provide to the domestic representative”
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IP addressYour network address, which can reveal rough location.Collected
“information about the location of the device derived from your IP address”
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LocationWhere you are or where you've been.Collected
“device location”
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Your nameYour legal or profile name.Collected
“Name, ID, phone number, email, address, and other information that you may provide to the domestic representative”
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Other dataAdditional data described in the policy.Collected
“Name, ID, phone number, email, address, and other information that you may provide to the domestic representative”
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Payment detailsCards, billing info, or transaction data.Collected
“To facilitate payments for products and services provided by Anthropic | Identity and Contact Data Payment Information | Contract”
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Phone numberYour mobile or contact number.Collected
“Name, ID, phone number, email, address, and other information that you may provide to the domestic representative”
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What the policy denies or leaves unclear.
Children's dataData about kids under 13 (or local age limits).Says no
“Our Services are not directed towards, and we do not knowingly collect, use, disclose, sell, or share any information from children under the age of 18.”
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Why they use your data.
AdvertisingTargeting or measuring ads.Yes
“market additional products or services to you”
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AI trainingUsing your data to train AI models.Yes
“To improve the Services and conduct research, including training our models”
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AnalyticsMeasuring how people use the service.Yes
“analyze the use of our Services to make them safer and more useful to you.”
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Legal reasonsComplying with laws and legal requests.Yes
“to meet legal, governmental and institutional policy obligations”
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Running the productMaking the service itself work.Yes
“These technologies help us to recognize you, customize or personalize your experience, market additional products or services to you, and analyze the use of our Services to make them safer and more useful to you.”
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ResearchStudies and product research.Yes
“To improve the Services and conduct research, including training our models and conducting broader research on AI-related topics such as the societal impacts of AI”
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SecurityPreventing fraud and protecting accounts.Yes
“To prevent and investigate fraud, abuse, and violations of our Usage Policy, unlawful or criminal activity, unauthorized access to or use of personal data or Anthropic systems and networks, to protect our rights and the rights of others, to protect your safety or that of any other person, and to meet legal, governmental and institutional policy obligations”
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Unspecified purposesThe policy doesn't say exactly why.Yes
“To provide you with service updates, communications, and to provide tailored recommendations about our Services that may be of interest to you.”
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Sharing, retention & your controls.
You can get a copyYou can request the data they hold on you.Good sign
“Access & data portability: the right to request a copy of the personal data Anthropic processes about you, subject to certain exceptions and conditions.”
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You can delete your dataThe policy offers a way to erase your data.Good sign
“You also are able to delete individual conversations, which will be removed immediately from your conversation history and automatically deleted from our back-end within 30 days.”
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Retention period disclosedThe policy says how long data is kept.Disclosed
“Anthropic retains your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes and criteria outlined in this Privacy Policy and explained further in our privacy center.”
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No controls disclosedThe captured policy doesn't disclose user controls.Good sign
“you can contact us.”
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You can opt outYou can say no to some uses of your data.Good sign
“your opt-out controls and other options, please visit our Cookie Policy”
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Shares with third partiesData goes to other companies.Disclosed
“This may be a direct provision of your personal data to us, or a transfer that we or a third party make. You can find more details about the affiliates and third parties we transfer data to”
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Sells dataThe policy discusses selling personal data.Says no
“Anthropic does not “sell” your personal data as that term is defined by applicable laws and regulations.”
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What changed.
No published changes yet.
Full evidence record (26 published claims)
sensitive · children
We found: not disclosed
“Our Services are not directed towards, and we do not knowingly collect, use, disclose, sell, or share any information from children under the age of 18.”
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claim 9e8d6697aebffffde1dd18b3526cd82b4191edfa1cc963f43b15a322e3ab7799
data collected · ip address
We found: disclosed
“information about the location of the device derived from your IP address”
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claim 639b2fb61f07d3e0137e9db097767dc955816ed3e591c90215e738ec1ff0a074
data collected · phone
We found: disclosed
“Name, ID, phone number, email, address, and other information that you may provide to the domestic representative”
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claim f932d7508d443b268fb391a6fe2559e508da36feac6de5cb51c62bc1b81effd6
region · US
We found: disclosed
“your personal data may be transferred or disclosed to other jurisdictions for processing and storage outside of Canada, including to the United States”
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claim 87d668a90806d3a21a0b090d3d06074eec0c0d07eb2e9c3e5fcaa1b30c1c1cb7
sharing · third party
We found: disclosed
“This may be a direct provision of your personal data to us, or a transfer that we or a third party make. You can find more details about the affiliates and third parties we transfer data to”
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claim d9c003e87f9db4a95dba283d3e562e89ea3157f53c1ac938529ba0eafa0333db
purpose · advertising
We found: disclosed
“market additional products or services to you”
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claim 44f13f7d48696b9865b572d38535cb59d3dc15e185e102d717e624f4c45c8c62
data collected · location
We found: disclosed
“device location”
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claim 2cf3ff1e442e78b54d89b061101405c1ddfcdbd159113394b4dd8a088c28534a
purpose · analytics
We found: disclosed
“analyze the use of our Services to make them safer and more useful to you.”
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claim 1da3a6834e746d1a7adf6ee911e48cce975242562c1407994df6fd62e19f2fd2
purpose · unspecified
We found: disclosed
“To provide you with service updates, communications, and to provide tailored recommendations about our Services that may be of interest to you.”
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claim ee630df219042b0a49a7e221d026672dc02bf04c30970c150d7dce9f365c78c1
purpose · security
We found: disclosed
“To prevent and investigate fraud, abuse, and violations of our Usage Policy, unlawful or criminal activity, unauthorized access to or use of personal data or Anthropic systems and networks, to protect our rights and the rights of others, to protect your safety or that of any other person, and to meet legal, governmental and institutional policy obligations”
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claim d64684e475bf5d9c93283b56d92e7d552072a24376b60ee0154b8cb1ffd416bc
data collected · browsing
We found: disclosed
“browsing history, search, information about the links you click and about third-party applications, services, and content you integrate or interact with, pages you view”
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claim c74236b9b2c2a1f5ea029bb332ddd080c4bec7999da260daf970495c278c59cc
purpose · product
We found: disclosed
“These technologies help us to recognize you, customize or personalize your experience, market additional products or services to you, and analyze the use of our Services to make them safer and more useful to you.”
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claim 1c2714a9a8b0748fc8a5a9d2b631b6904477075099496dc4e1dc4dfcb0324648
sharing · sale
We found: not disclosed
“Anthropic does not “sell” your personal data as that term is defined by applicable laws and regulations.”
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claim 36caa6391c6d18239de3714c1df35323f0bbdf852d5420e561f3962a6659f631
control · deletion
We found: disclosed
“You also are able to delete individual conversations, which will be removed immediately from your conversation history and automatically deleted from our back-end within 30 days.”
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claim 184c87df51435b71e22d0d01bc905b182e11fdbcdf50990e9983e5fbcd804f8e
data collected · other
We found: disclosed
“Name, ID, phone number, email, address, and other information that you may provide to the domestic representative”
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claim 1298d1488598ba17b7e72eafb533cf45e569aadcc2cb3e76aebcc6b59356b443
control · none disclosed
We found: disclosed
“you can contact us.”
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claim 32c5a4c68fe89e541d37bcc7ead36065d620ea6f96db22cf669b2d619e80d3bf
data collected · payment
We found: disclosed
“To facilitate payments for products and services provided by Anthropic | Identity and Contact Data Payment Information | Contract”
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claim d45dc5a4eaaf8b7950753950d45db7c5c291576d78de490853dae614931c5876
data collected · device id
We found: disclosed
“identifiers (including device or advertising identifiers, probabilistic identifiers, and other unique personal or online identifiers)”
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claim af1e9e8e1aff55e16d4ff9bfa4c614a53f8a127c384f650656f1a872ae2a855b
retention · duration disclosed
We found: disclosed
“Anthropic retains your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes and criteria outlined in this Privacy Policy and explained further in our privacy center.”
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claim df632231f5eca62922f8666fd0506948c4f1b4bf0c9bcdf44d7a584bab884df0
purpose · ai training
We found: disclosed
“To improve the Services and conduct research, including training our models”
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claim 52895b747392a732274e94325af9115564c85277d38fb9c8cd15db39f45220d9
control · opt out
We found: disclosed
“your opt-out controls and other options, please visit our Cookie Policy”
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claim f4178da6da9dffb8d12d708a90f97bf294acfc151d0ad3912ce4c925bed79d1b
control · access
We found: disclosed
“Access & data portability: the right to request a copy of the personal data Anthropic processes about you, subject to certain exceptions and conditions.”
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claim 2294bc3533f47335c200fe5729f22645b83af46d007586d4682d8404f56120cb
purpose · research
We found: disclosed
“To improve the Services and conduct research, including training our models and conducting broader research on AI-related topics such as the societal impacts of AI”
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claim 83f0d69b45a08f61f707632721eae02512363de32b8e14f16159d76045884fd3
data collected · name
We found: disclosed
“Name, ID, phone number, email, address, and other information that you may provide to the domestic representative”
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claim 9d8cd165793abe3e414e75e43bce47bb86fb312e3368c25344a89b0e5a72fd9c
data collected · email
We found: disclosed
“Name, ID, phone number, email, address, and other information that you may provide to the domestic representative”
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claim 74601aecaf1c6a571b4e4cda03bdec7d7158f709f904d383a5e43c405a26277f
purpose · legal
We found: disclosed
“to meet legal, governmental and institutional policy obligations”
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claim e3cb79fc47b27d27e3064aa13d37930d28aa422a631980d8eaf69ee406c7a408