Is Manus safe with your data?

Manus

55/100

Partial disclosure · high confidence

Manus earns a C (55/100) because it discloses its data practices only in part.

Dealbreaker flag

D1.4: You grant us and our affiliates, successors, and assigns a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up, transferable, sublicensable (through multiple tiers of direct or indirect authorization) right to copy, display, upload, perform, distribute, store, modify, and otherwise use Your Content

#55

of 216 apps ranked

score · Assistant avg 46

vs category average

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

Manus publishes a detailed privacy policy with named sandbox retention windows and a Data Protection Officer, but its content licence is broad and sublicensable, and several core data rights are written only for European users.

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

Named retention windows

Sandbox data is retained for up to 7 days from last activity on free plans and up to 21 days on paid plans, then deleted automatically, and account deletion is completed within 30 days.

Broad content licence

The terms take a worldwide, transferable, sublicensable licence over user inputs and outputs through multiple tiers of authorisation, even though the company disclaims ownership of that content.

Rights written for Europe only

Access, correction, portability and objection rights appear under the Notice to European users, so the global default offers only account self-service and an email address.

Security described in general terms

The policy promises technical, organisational and physical safeguards without naming controls, and reserves encryption in transit and at rest specifically for Health Data; breach notice is promised only within applicable legal time limits.

What the policy is silent or vague on

Not stated: your ownership of generated outputs
Not stated: data portability
Not stated: a data-minimisation commitment
Only partial: keeping user inputs out of model training

Manus 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 trainingPartial

Says whether training use differs by plan or tierDisclosed

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 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 processingPartial

Retention and deletion2 of 4 disclosed

States a retention period for your dataDisclosed

States a deletion timeline after closure or requestDisclosed

Sets a shorter retention for AI conversation logsPartial

Commits to collecting only the data it needsSilent

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 transfersPartial

States a standard for government and law-enforcement accessPartial

Transparency3 of 4 disclosed

Discloses that you are interacting with AIDisclosed

Marks AI-generated or synthetic outputNot applicable

Enumerates the categories of data it collectsDisclosed

Maps processing purposes to legal basesPartial

Is versioned and dated, with change noticeDisclosed

Sensitive data and children2 of 2 disclosed

Discloses automated decisions and a human-review pathNot applicable

Limits the use of special-category dataDisclosed

Governs biometric data specificallyNot applicable

States protections for children's dataDisclosed

Security and accountability1 of 3 disclosed

Describes its security safeguardsPartial

Commits to breach notificationPartial

Names a certification or a privacy contactDisclosed

DisclosedPartialSilentAdverseNot applicable

Details

Category: Assistant
Modalities: text
Processes biometrics: No
Policy last updated: 2026-09-28
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.