Is Qwen safe with your data?
Qwen
Alibaba
Weak disclosure · high confidence
Qwen earns a D (43/100) because it leaves much about its data practices unstated.
#126
of 216 apps ranked
43
score · Assistant avg 47
-4
vs category average
Qwen is covered by Alibaba Cloud's general website privacy policy, which sets out data rights and a named data protection officer but says nothing about whether chat inputs train models, who owns outputs, or how long conversation data is kept.
What Qwen's privacy policy and terms of service say about your data
No training-data disclosure
The policy never says whether prompts or conversations are used to train models, offers no opt-out, and never addresses who owns generated outputs.
Rights are stated with a named contact
Access, correction and deletion can be requested from a named data protection officer, with postal addresses and a dedicated email, though portability is offered only to EEA and UK users.
No retention period is named
Data is kept where there is an "ongoing legitimate business need" with no number attached, and the policy sets no deletion timeline after an account closes.
Key commitments sit in regional addenda
The no-sale statement, the standard-contractual-clause safeguard and the purpose-to-legal-basis mapping appear only in the California and EEA/UK sections, not in the global policy most users get.
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
Qwen privacy rating
Details
- Category
- Assistant
- Modalities
- text, image
- Processes biometrics
- No
- Policy last updated
- 2026-09-04
- 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.