Is Civitai safe with your data?

Civitai

19/100

Poor disclosure · high confidence

Civitai earns an F (19/100) because it discloses little about its data practices.

Dealbreaker flag

D1.4: worldwide, non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid right and license (with the right to sublicense through multiple tiers)

#206

of 211 apps ranked

score · Image & video avg 49

-30

vs category average

Grade scaleA · 70–100B · 60–69C · 48–59D · 35–47F · 0–34

Civitai's privacy policy is minimal, with most data rights and transparency indicators either silent or vague; the broad sublicensable output license is adverse.

What Civitai's privacy policy and terms of service say about your data

Broad licence over everything users post

Civitai reserves perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable rights over all user-posted content with no limit on reuse or commercialisation. Users keep ownership in name only.

No stated access, deletion or correction rights

The policy says nothing about access, deletion, portability or correction. No mechanism is disclosed for any of them, despite their being standard under current privacy law.

Weak disclosure about AI interaction

The platform is described as AI-focused, yet the policy never tells users plainly that they are interacting with AI systems or how their inputs get processed.

Vague retention and security

Data is kept 'as long as reasonably necessary' and security rests on 'reasonable efforts' and generic 'safeguards,' with no named controls or breach notification timeline

What the policy is silent or vague on

Not stated: keeping user inputs out of model training
Not stated: a way to opt out of training
Not stated: whether training use differs by plan
Not stated: your ownership of generated outputs

Civitai privacy rating

Training-data use0 of 4 disclosed

Keeps user inputs out of model training, or makes training opt-inSilent

Names a way to opt out of or into trainingSilent

Says whether training use differs by plan or tierSilent

Lets the user keep ownership of generated outputsAdverse

Data-subject rights0 of 5 disclosed

Grants a right to access your dataSilent

Grants a right to delete your dataSilent

Offers data portability in a usable formatSilent

Grants a right to correct your dataSilent

Grants a way to object to or opt out of processingPartial

Retention and deletion0 of 4 disclosed

States a retention period for your dataSilent

States a deletion timeline after closure or requestSilent

Sets a shorter retention for AI conversation logsSilent

Commits to collecting only the data it needsSilent

Third-party sharing1 of 5 disclosed

Lists the categories of third parties it shares withDisclosed

References a sub-processor list or data processing agreementSilent

Does not sell or share data for advertising, or offers opt-outSilent

Names a safeguard for international data transfersSilent

States a standard for government and law-enforcement accessPartial

Transparency1 of 5 disclosed

Discloses that you are interacting with AIPartial

Marks AI-generated or synthetic outputSilent

Enumerates the categories of data it collectsDisclosed

Maps processing purposes to legal basesPartial

Is versioned and dated, with change noticePartial

Sensitive data and children1 of 2 disclosed

Discloses automated decisions and a human-review pathNot applicable

Limits the use of special-category dataSilent

Governs biometric data specificallyNot applicable

States protections for children's dataDisclosed

Security and accountability0 of 3 disclosed

Describes its security safeguardsPartial

Commits to breach notificationSilent

Names a certification or a privacy contactSilent

DisclosedPartialSilentAdverseNot applicable

Details

Category: Image & video
Modalities: image
Processes biometrics: No
Policy last updated: 2024-02-01
Region scored: Global / US-default
Last assessed: 2026-08-13

Documents examined

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Each grade reflects our analysis of what an app states in its public privacy policy and terms as of the assessment date. It measures the transparency of those documents, not the company's actual data practices, security, or compliance. Grades are our opinion, offered for general information. Full disclaimer.