Is Manus safe with your data?

Manus

61/100

Good disclosure · high confidence

Manus earns a B (61/100) because it discloses most of its data practices.

Dealbreaker flag

D1.4: you are the owner of all right, title and interest in Your Content... we grant us and our affiliates, successors, and assigns a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up, transferable, sublicensable right

#41

of 211 apps ranked

score · Assistant avg 48

+13

vs category average

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

Manus discloses opt-out training control and offers core data rights (access, deletion with caveats, correction), but grants sublicensable content licenses and lacks detailed retention specificity outside sandbox data.

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

Training opt-out

opt out of training through your account settings (but not opt-in by default)

Content licence adversity

user grants non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up, transferable, sublicensable right to provider

Deletion with caveat

Delete where there is no good reason for continuing to process (conditional right)

DPO appointed

Data Protection Officer responsible for overseeing privacy compliance. Contact: privacy@manus.im

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: shorter retention for AI conversation logs
Not stated: limits on special-category data

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 tierSilent

Lets the user keep ownership of generated outputsAdverse

Data-subject rights3 of 5 disclosed

Grants a right to access your dataDisclosed

Grants a right to delete your dataPartial

Offers data portability in a usable formatPartial

Grants a right to correct your dataDisclosed

Grants a way to object to or opt out of processingDisclosed

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 needsPartial

Third-party sharing3 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-outDisclosed

Names a safeguard for international data transfersDisclosed

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 children0 of 2 disclosed

Discloses automated decisions and a human-review pathNot applicable

Limits the use of special-category dataSilent

Governs biometric data specificallyNot applicable

States protections for children's dataSilent

Security and accountability1 of 3 disclosed

Describes its security safeguardsPartial

Commits to breach notificationSilent

Names a certification or a privacy contactDisclosed

DisclosedPartialSilentAdverseNot applicable

Details

Category: Assistant
Modalities: text
Processes biometrics: No
Policy last updated: 2026-04-30
Region scored: Global / US-default
Last assessed: 2026-07-08

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.