Is Poe safe with your data?

Poe

Quora

18/100

Poor disclosure · high confidence

Poe earns an F (18/100) 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

#213

of 216 apps ranked

score · Assistant avg 49

-31

vs category average

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

Poe's policy lets third-party bot developers store chats to train their own models and takes a perpetual content licence, while saying nothing about retention periods, deletion, data export, or security controls.

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

Third-party training

Developers who build bots and apps on Poe using the APIs may view and store user chats on their own servers to train their models, and the policy names no way to opt out.

Perpetual content licence

Using Poe grants Quora a worldwide, royalty-free, transferable and perpetual licence to user content, even though users keep nominal ownership.

No retention or deletion terms

The policy names no retention period, no deletion timeline after account closure, and no data minimization commitment.

No security disclosure

Neither document names any security control or breach-notification commitment, though it does name a Data Protection Officer contact.

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 dataSilent

Offers data portability in a usable formatSilent

Grants a right to correct your dataSilent

Grants a way to object to or opt out of processingPartial

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 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 transfersSilent

States a standard for government and law-enforcement accessPartial

Transparency2 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 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 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

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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.