Is Poe safe with your data?

Poe

Quora

15/100

Poor disclosure · grade F is 0–34 · high confidence

Scored 15 ± 5 (range 10–20)

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

Poe earns an F (15/100) because it discloses little about its data practices.

Dealbreaker flag

D1.1: Developers that create bots and apps on Poe using APIs may view and store your chats on their servers to train their models.
D1.4: you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, and perpetual license to use Your Content and Your Bots
D4.3: We may share your hashed email with our ad platform partners for our advertising activities

#214

of 216 apps ranked

score · Assistant avg 49

-34

vs category average

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

Poe lets third-party developers view, store and train on user chats, takes a perpetual transferable licence over user content, and names no retention period or deletion timeline.

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

Developers can train on your chats

The policy states that developers who build bots and apps on Poe using its APIs may view and store user chats on their own servers to train their models, and offers no way to refuse.

Perpetual licence over your content

Using Poe grants a worldwide, royalty-free, transferable and perpetual licence over user content and user-created bots, and data collected before account closure may continue to be used after termination.

No retention period stated

Neither the privacy policy nor the terms name any retention period, deletion timeline after account closure, or shorter retention for AI chat logs.

Clear about the AI and who to contact

The terms state plainly that bots are powered by third-party AI models including large language models, each bot names its creator, and the policy gives a Data Protection Officer contact address.

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

Poe 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 rights0 of 5 disclosed

Grants a right to access your dataSilent

Grants a right to delete your dataPartial

Offers data portability in a usable formatSilent

Grants a right to correct your dataSilent

Grants a way to object to or opt out of processingSilent

Retention and deletion0 of 4 disclosed

States a retention period for your dataSilent

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 sharing0 of 5 disclosed

Lists the categories of third parties it shares withPartial

References a sub-processor list or data processing agreementSilent

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

Names a safeguard for international data transfersSilent

States a standard for government and law-enforcement accessSilent

Transparency1 of 5 disclosed

Discloses that you are interacting with AIDisclosed

Marks AI-generated or synthetic outputSilent

Enumerates the categories of data it collectsPartial

Maps processing purposes to legal basesPartial

Is versioned and dated, with change noticePartial

Sensitive data and children0 of 4 disclosed

Discloses automated decisions and a human-review pathSilent

Limits the use of special-category dataSilent

Governs biometric data specificallySilent

States protections for children's dataPartial

Security and accountability1 of 3 disclosed

Describes its security safeguardsSilent

Commits to breach notificationSilent

Names a certification or a privacy contactDisclosed

DisclosedPartialSilentAdverseNot applicable

Details

Category: Assistant
Modalities: text, image
Processes biometrics: No
Policy last updated: 2026-03-19
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.