Is Apollo.io safe with your data?

Training and content licence are both adverse

Apollo states plainly that it "may use information collected through the Services, including Contributor Database records and Usage Data, to train internal models" with no opt-out anywhere in the text. The terms separately grant Apollo "an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, transferable, sublicensable, and royalty-free license" over Customer Data, and the attached aggregation proviso does not cure the perpetual sublicensable grant.

Portability and correction are legally conditioned

Portability applies only "Where required by applicable law" and correction only "To the extent required by applicable law", each with further carve-outs plus a commercially reasonable efforts qualifier. These are conditional versions of the rights rather than unconditional grants.

Transfer safeguards apply to Europe only

The named Standard Contractual Clauses and Data Privacy Framework safeguard sits in Section 11.2 and the purpose-to-legal-basis mapping sits in Section 11, both headed "Information for Residents of the European Economic Area, the UK, and Switzerland". The global default in Section 10 says only that safeguards "may include" a list.

Sale, retention and AI logging stay weak

Apollo confirms it sells Contributor Database records, with an opt-out available through the Removal Page. No retention number appears anywhere, and the only AI retention language is "deletion of inputs and outputs after a defined retention period" imposed on third parties, with no period disclosed for Apollo's own MCP request logs.