Is Picsart safe with your data?

Picsart

42/100

Weak disclosure · medium confidence

Picsart earns a D (42/100) because it leaves much about its data practices unstated.

Dealbreaker flag

D1.4: You grant Picsart a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable license to use your Content... This license is perpetual
D2.2: certain information may be stored indefinitely where a user has violated our policies or terms

#139

of 211 apps ranked

score · Image & video avg 44

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vs category average

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

Picsart reserves broad perpetual sublicensable content licenses, indefinite retention for policy violators, and lacks biometric governance despite collecting face geometry.

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

D1.4: Perpetual sublicensable license

You grant Picsart a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable license to use your Content... This license is perpetual

D2.2: Indefinite retention exception

certain information may be stored indefinitely where a user has violated our policies or terms

D6.2: Biometric collection without governance

Picsart scans your face geometry in the images you upload to our services (sometimes referred to by us as biometric data)

D6.4: Age-gated children protection

You are not allowed to use our services if you are under the age of 14... If we become aware that we have received personal Information from a person under the age of 14, we will delete this information and terminate the person's account

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

Picsart 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 outputsAdverse

Data-subject rights3 of 5 disclosed

Grants a right to access your dataPartial

Grants a right to delete your dataAdverse

Offers data portability in a usable formatDisclosed

Grants a right to correct your dataDisclosed

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 requestPartial

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 agreementPartial

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

Names a safeguard for international data transfersDisclosed

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 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 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 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: Yes
Policy last updated: 2023-11-16
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.