Is Deel safe with your data?

Deel

Deel, Inc.

47/100

Weak disclosure · high confidence

Deel earns a D (47/100) because it leaves much about its data practices unstated.

Dealbreaker flag

D1.4: you grant Deel and its successors and assignees a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, sub-licensable and transferable license

#97

of 216 apps ranked

score · HR & recruiting avg 49

-2

vs category average

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

Deel commits in writing that it does not train AI models on personal data and does not sell personal information, but its terms take a perpetual sub-licensable licence over user content, it names no retention period, and it promises no breach-notification timeframe.

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

No training on personal data

The policy states plainly that Deel does not use personal data to train or develop AI models, limiting AI improvement work to anonymised and aggregated usage data.

Perpetual licence over user content

Submitting content grants Deel and its successors a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, sub-licensable and transferable licence to copy, modify and publicly display it, which reaches well beyond what delivering the service requires.

No retention period

Data is kept only "as long as necessary" with no number attached, no deletion timeline after an account closes, and no shorter clock for AI interaction logs.

Security described in adjectives

Safeguards are called "suitable measures" with need-to-know access and no named encryption or access-control standard, and no breach-notification timeframe is committed to anywhere in the text.

What the policy is silent or vague on

Not stated: a way to opt out of training
Not stated: whether training use differs by plan
Not stated: your ownership of generated outputs
Not stated: a deletion timeline after closure or request

Deel privacy rating

Training-data use1 of 4 disclosed

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

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 outputsSilent

Data-subject rights1 of 5 disclosed

Grants a right to access your dataPartial

Grants a right to delete your dataPartial

Offers data portability in a usable formatPartial

Grants a right to correct your dataPartial

Grants a way to object to or opt out of processingDisclosed

Retention and deletion0 of 4 disclosed

States a retention period for your dataPartial

States a deletion timeline after closure or requestSilent

Sets a shorter retention for AI conversation logsSilent

Commits to collecting only the data it needsPartial

Third-party sharing2 of 5 disclosed

Lists the categories of third parties it shares withPartial

References a sub-processor list or data processing agreementDisclosed

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

Names a safeguard for international data transfersPartial

States a standard for government and law-enforcement accessPartial

Transparency1 of 4 disclosed

Discloses that you are interacting with AIDisclosed

Marks AI-generated or synthetic outputNot applicable

Enumerates the categories of data it collectsPartial

Maps processing purposes to legal basesPartial

Is versioned and dated, with change noticePartial

Sensitive data and children1 of 4 disclosed

Discloses automated decisions and a human-review pathDisclosed

Limits the use of special-category dataPartial

Governs biometric data specificallyPartial

States protections for children's dataPartial

Security and accountability0 of 3 disclosed

Describes its security safeguardsPartial

Commits to breach notificationSilent

Names a certification or a privacy contactPartial

DisclosedPartialSilentAdverseNot applicable

Details

Category: HR & recruiting
Modalities: text
Processes biometrics: Yes
Policy last updated: 2026-08-06
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.