Is Midjourney safe with your data?

Midjourney

41/100

Weak disclosure · high confidence

Midjourney earns a D (41/100) because it leaves much about its data practices unstated.

Dealbreaker flag

D1.4: a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license

#140

of 216 apps ranked

score · Image & video avg 48

-7

vs category average

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

Midjourney claims a perpetual, worldwide, sublicensable and irrevocable licence over everything users put in and everything the service generates, and that licence survives termination of the agreement.

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

Content licence

By using the Services you grant Midjourney a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicensable, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright licence to reproduce, display, sublicense and distribute both your inputs and your generated assets, and that licence survives termination.

Training data

The policy states it covers data collected through the process of training Midjourney machine learning algorithms, but it never says whether user prompts and uploads feed model training, and it names no opt-out.

Retention

The policy names no retention period, committing only to keep personal data as long as is necessary, with no deletion timeline after account closure.

Rights are region-gated

The broadest access, correction and objection rights sit in a Europe-only supplemental section, while the globally available routes are the account page and a California-specific CCPA notice.

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: whether training use differs by plan
Not stated: your ownership of generated outputs

Midjourney 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 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 dataPartial

Offers data portability in a usable formatDisclosed

Grants a right to correct your dataPartial

Grants a way to object to or opt out of processingDisclosed

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 sharing1 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-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 basesPartial

Is versioned and dated, with change noticeDisclosed

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 safeguardsPartial

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: 2026-09-03
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.