Is Cohere safe with your data?
Cohere
Partial disclosure · high confidence
Cohere earns a C (57/100) because it discloses its data practices only in part.
Dealbreaker flag
- D1.4: YOU GRANT US A NONEXCLUSIVE, WORLDWIDE, ROYALTY-FREE, IRREVOCABLE, SUBLICENSABLE, AND FULLY PAID-UP RIGHT
#40
of 216 apps ranked
57
score · Model provider avg 59
-2
vs category average
Cohere publishes a detailed privacy policy with a named privacy officer, a self-serve account deletion path and a Global Privacy Control signal that is honoured, but its terms of use take an irrevocable sublicensable licence over everything users submit and free-tier inputs feed research and development without a user-facing opt-out.
What Cohere's privacy policy and terms of service say about your data
Broad content licence
The terms of use take a worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable and sublicensable right over any content a user submits, including sharing finetuning and API data with third parties who may use it for their own purposes.
Free tier trains, paid tier controls
Content and outputs from trial users and researchers may be used for research and development, while the ability to control training on submitted data is described only for paid enterprise accounts.
Retention number is tier-limited
A 30-day retention figure for inputs and outputs is stated for enterprise users, while the general commitment for everyone else is to keep personal information only as long as necessary, with no fixed period.
Concrete rights plumbing
Accounts can be deleted from a Danger Zone tab in the platform, the Global Privacy Control browser signal is treated as an opt-out of sale and sharing, and a named privacy officer is reachable with a postal address.
What the policy is silent or vague on
- Not stated: keeping user inputs out of model training
- Not stated: your ownership of generated outputs
- Not stated: a deletion timeline after closure or request
- Not stated: limits on special-category data
Cohere privacy rating
Details
- Category
- Model provider
- Modalities
- text
- Processes biometrics
- No
- Policy last updated
- 2026-05-01
- 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.