Is Databricks safe with your data?
Databricks
Weak disclosure · high confidence
Databricks earns a D (40/100) because it leaves much about its data practices unstated.
Dealbreaker flag
- D1.4: you automatically grant ... a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, fully paid-up and royalty-free license to use
#148
of 216 apps ranked
40
score · Data platform avg 48
-8
vs category average
Databricks publishes a detailed privacy notice with named transfer safeguards, an enumerated data inventory and a toll-free rights hotline, but its website terms take a perpetual, sublicensable licence over anything users post and the notice never states a retention period or whether user content reaches model training.
What Databricks's privacy policy and terms of service say about your data
Perpetual licence on submissions
Anything posted to Databricks forums or interactive features grants Databricks a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, sub-licensable and royalty-free licence to use, modify, publish and sublicense it onward.
No retention period
The notice keeps personal information "for as long as you use our Services" and for legitimate business purposes, without naming a number of days, months or years, and sets no deletion timeline after an account closes.
Rights depend on where you live
Access, deletion, portability and correction are offered to residents of certain US states and the EU, UK and Switzerland "depending on the laws of your jurisdiction", with access and transfer further qualified by feasibility.
Named transfer and contact routes
Transfers rely on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses and Data Privacy Framework certification, and requests go through an online form or the +1 833 338 0670 hotline, with privacy@databricks.com as the privacy contact.
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
Databricks privacy rating
Details
- Category
- Data platform
- Modalities
- text
- Processes biometrics
- No
- Policy last updated
- 2026-01-09
- Region scored
- Global / US-default
- Last assessed
- 2026-10-13
Documents examined
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.