Is Ideogram safe with your data?

Ideogram

38/100

Weak disclosure · high confidence

Ideogram earns a D (38/100) because it leaves much about its data practices unstated.

Dealbreaker flag

D1.1: training the models that power our Services
D1.4: royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide and irrevocable

#159

of 216 apps ranked

score · Image & video avg 48

-10

vs category average

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

Ideogram trains its image models on user prompts and uploads with no opt-out offered, takes a sublicensable and irrevocable licence over everything users upload or generate, and names no retention period or security control.

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

Trains on your prompts and images

The policy lists "training the models that power our Services" among its uses of submitted information, and offers no mechanism anywhere to opt out of that training.

Sublicensable, irrevocable content licence

Uploading anything grants Ideogram a "royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide and irrevocable" licence to host, reproduce, publish, distribute and modify it, and lets other users remix public content.

Rights are offered conditionally

Access, deletion, correction and portability are each framed as rights you "may have" depending on where you live, and the policy states these rights "are not absolute, and may apply only in certain circumstances.

No retention period and no named security controls

Information is kept "for as long as is reasonably necessary" with no number attached, and the security section names no safeguards, saying only that no measures are impenetrable and that perfect security cannot be guaranteed.

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: your ownership of generated outputs
Not stated: a deletion timeline after closure or request

Ideogram privacy rating

Training-data use0 of 4 disclosed

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

Names a way to opt out of or into trainingSilent

Says whether training use differs by plan or tierPartial

Lets the user keep ownership of generated outputsSilent

Data-subject rights0 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 processingPartial

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 needsSilent

Third-party sharing2 of 5 disclosed

Lists the categories of third parties it shares withDisclosed

References a sub-processor list or data processing agreementSilent

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

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 AIPartial

Marks AI-generated or synthetic outputPartial

Enumerates the categories of data it collectsDisclosed

Maps processing purposes to legal basesDisclosed

Is versioned and dated, with change noticePartial

Sensitive data and children1 of 2 disclosed

Discloses automated decisions and a human-review pathNot applicable

Limits the use of special-category dataPartial

Governs biometric data specificallyNot applicable

States protections for children's dataDisclosed

Security and accountability0 of 3 disclosed

Describes its security safeguardsSilent

Commits to breach notificationSilent

Names a certification or a privacy contactPartial

DisclosedPartialSilentAdverseNot applicable

Details

Category: Image & video
Modalities: image
Processes biometrics: No
Policy last updated: 2025-01-15
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.