The policy states that user content such as emails, documents, and drafts is not used for marketing or advertising purposes, while other data categories including email address, purchase history, usage data, and inferences may be used for marketing and advertising subject to user settings.
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This provision establishes a categorical exclusion of user content from advertising data flows, operationally distinguishing between content-level data and account or behavioral data for marketing purposes.
The updated policy now discloses that Grammarly collects voice data if you use transcription or Notetaker features, including recordings of other participants, and expands its list of collected content to explicitly include screen content and web pages. For users whose accounts are managed by an organization (employer, school, or other entity), the policy clarifies that Grammarly's privacy terms do not apply to the content you upload or output—your organization's privacy terms govern that data instead. This means organizational account users should review their organization's privacy policies rather than relying on Grammarly's policy to understand how their work or educational data is handled.
View change record →This provision establishes that the substantive content of a user's emails, documents, and other uploaded materials is not used to target advertising. Account-level information including email address, purchase history, usage data, and inferences drawn from product use may still be used for marketing communications and third-party advertising depending on the user's settings.
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Compare across platforms →"We do not use your user content for marketing or advertising purposes. Depending on your settings, we do use some of the other information we collect (such as your email address, the types of products you have purchased, your usage data, and inferences we may have made about you) to send marketing communications, advertise our products to you on third-party sites and services, and otherwise promote our products and conduct market research.Excerpt from Grammarly's Privacy Policy
1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This commitment engages FTC Act Section 5 standards for accuracy of privacy representations, as a misuse of user content for advertising contrary to this stated restriction could constitute an unfair or deceptive …
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This provision establishes a categorical exclusion of user content from advertising data flows, operationally distinguishing between content-level data and account or behavioral data for marketing purposes.
This provision establishes that the substantive content of a user's emails, documents, and other uploaded materials is not used to target advertising. Account-level information including email address, purchase history, usage data, and inferences drawn from product use may still be used for marketing communications and third-party advertising depending on the user's settings.
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