Is Facemoji safe with your data?

Facemoji

49/100

Partial disclosure · high confidence

Facemoji earns a C (49/100) because it discloses its data practices only in part.

Dealbreaker flag

D1.4: You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free and perpetual license to use, copy, reproduce, distribute, adapt, re-format, modify, publish, translate, license, sub-license, and exploit the User Content

#84

of 216 apps ranked

score · Image & video avg 47

vs category average

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

Facemoji sends what you type to its servers to build language models, keeps a perpetual sub-licensable licence over user content, and reserves the right to sell personal information unless you opt out.

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

Typing feeds model building

Text entered through the keyboard is transferred from the device to company servers and used to create language models, with a "share data" toggle in Settings > Input Settings as the way to turn it off.

Perpetual licence over your content

The terms claim no ownership of user content but take a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual and sub-licensable licence to use, modify, publish and exploit it.

Sales are the default

Personal information may be sold to third parties for monetary or other valuable consideration unless the user exercises the Do Not Sell or Share My Information opt-out.

Short named retention windows

Data is kept for the life of the service plus thirty days, and text uploaded for translation is stored for seven days before deletion.

What the policy is silent or vague on

Not stated: whether training use differs by plan
Not stated: your ownership of generated outputs
Not stated: data portability
Not stated: a deletion timeline after closure or request

Facemoji privacy rating

Training-data use1 of 4 disclosed

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

Names a way to opt out of or into trainingDisclosed

Says whether training use differs by plan or tierSilent

Lets the user keep ownership of generated outputsSilent

Data-subject rights2 of 5 disclosed

Grants a right to access your dataPartial

Grants a right to delete your dataDisclosed

Offers data portability in a usable formatSilent

Grants a right to correct your dataPartial

Grants a way to object to or opt out of processingDisclosed

Retention and deletion2 of 4 disclosed

States a retention period for your dataDisclosed

States a deletion timeline after closure or requestSilent

Sets a shorter retention for AI conversation logsDisclosed

Commits to collecting only the data it needsPartial

Third-party sharing1 of 5 disclosed

Lists the categories of third parties it shares withDisclosed

References a sub-processor list or data processing agreementPartial

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

Names a safeguard for international data transfersSilent

States a standard for government and law-enforcement accessPartial

Transparency2 of 5 disclosed

Discloses that you are interacting with AIDisclosed

Marks AI-generated or synthetic outputSilent

Enumerates the categories of data it collectsDisclosed

Maps processing purposes to legal basesSilent

Is versioned and dated, with change noticePartial

Sensitive data and children1 of 3 disclosed

Discloses automated decisions and a human-review pathNot applicable

Limits the use of special-category dataPartial

Governs biometric data specificallySilent

States protections for children's dataDisclosed

Security and accountability0 of 3 disclosed

Describes its security safeguardsPartial

Commits to breach notificationPartial

Names a certification or a privacy contactPartial

DisclosedPartialSilentAdverseNot applicable

Details

Category: Image & video
Modalities: image
Processes biometrics: Yes
Policy last updated: 2025-11-11
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.