Is Civitai safe with your data?
Civitai
Poor disclosure · grade F is 0–34 · high confidence
Scored 23 ± 5 (range 18–28)
The ±5 is measured, not chosen: re-running the grader on identical policy text landed inside this range for 96% of apps. Read a one-grade gap between two apps as noise. How we grade
Civitai earns an F (23/100) because it discloses little about its data practices.
Dealbreaker flag
- D1.4: you grant Civitai a worldwide, non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid right and license (with the right to sublicense through multiple tiers)
#209
of 216 apps ranked
23
score · Image & video avg 49
-26
vs category average
Civitai's privacy policy was last updated in February 2024 and is silent on whether user inputs or uploaded content train models, names no retention period, and describes no access, deletion, portability, or correction rights, while the terms of service take a worldwide, irrevocable, sublicensable licence over everything users post.
What Civitai's privacy policy and terms of service say about your data
Content licence
Posting content grants Civitai a worldwide, non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free licence with the right to sublicense through multiple tiers, and public content additionally grants every other user a perpetual, irrevocable licence to reproduce and make derivative works.
No data rights
The policy describes no mechanism to access, delete, export, or correct personal information; the only user control named is an unsubscribe link in promotional emails.
Retention unstated
Neither the privacy policy nor the terms state how long personal information, generation logs, or uploaded content are kept, or what happens to them after an account closes.
Security and transfers
Security rests on "reasonable efforts" and unspecified physical and electronic safeguards with no named controls or breach-notification commitment, and data is moved to the U.S. on the basis of user consent rather than a named transfer safeguard.
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
Details
- Category
- Image & video
- Modalities
- image
- Processes biometrics
- No
- Policy last updated
- 2024-02-01
- Region scored
- Global / US-default
- Last assessed
- 2026-10-13
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.