Is Manus safe with your data?

Manus

52/100

Partial disclosure · grade C is 48–59 · high confidence

Scored 52 ± 5 (range 47–57)

The ±5 is measured, not chosen: re-running the grader on identical policy text landed inside this range for 96% of apps. Read a one-grade gap between two apps as noise. How we grade

Manus earns a C (52/100) because it discloses its data practices only in part.

Dealbreaker flag

D1.4: a fully paid, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, and fully sublicensable right and license

#76

of 216 apps ranked

score · Assistant avg 47

vs category average

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

Manus discloses data categories, purposes with legal bases, recipient categories and a named Data Protection Officer, but its terms take a perpetual, irrevocable and sublicensable licence over user content, its access and portability rights are written for European users only, and it names no overall retention period.

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

Content licence is perpetual and sublicensable

The terms take a "fully paid, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, and fully sublicensable" licence over user content, far broader than what running the service requires.

Access and portability are Europe-only

The access, portability and restriction rights are introduced with "If you are located in Europe"; the section written for all users offers only account self-service updates and no machine-readable export.

No retention period is named

Retention is governed by "only as long as we need," with concrete numbers given solely for ephemeral sandbox data (7 days free, 21 days paid). Agent task execution logs are kept for replay and debugging with no stated limit.

Named DPO and health-data encryption

A Data Protection Officer is appointed with a published contact address, and Health Data carries encryption in transit and at rest plus access limited to authorised personnel.

What the policy is silent or vague on

Not stated: your ownership of generated outputs
Not stated: data portability
Not stated: shorter retention for AI conversation logs
Not stated: a data-minimisation commitment

Manus privacy rating

Training-data use0 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 tierPartial

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 deletion1 of 4 disclosed

States a retention period for your dataPartial

States a deletion timeline after closure or requestDisclosed

Sets a shorter retention for AI conversation logsSilent

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 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 basesDisclosed

Is versioned and dated, with change noticePartial

Sensitive data and children1 of 4 disclosed

Discloses automated decisions and a human-review pathSilent

Limits the use of special-category dataDisclosed

Governs biometric data specificallySilent

States protections for children's dataPartial

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: Not stated
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.