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If you write personal, professional, or sensitive content through Grammarly, that text could contribute to AI model development, meaning your writing goes beyond the immediate service interaction.
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 →Users of Grammarly's free consumer services should be aware that the actual text they submit, including emails, documents, and messages, may be used to train Grammarly's AI models; enterprise (Grammarly Business) users are explicitly carved out from this broader AI training use by the document's terms.
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"We use your User Content to provide the Services to you. We also use User Content to improve Grammarly's technology, products, and services, including to develop, train, and improve machine learning and AI models that power our Services. We may also use User Content that you provide through our free consumer Services (but not through Grammarly Business) to develop and improve our AI models more broadly.Excerpt from Grammarly's Privacy Policy
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If you write personal, professional, or sensitive content through Grammarly, that text could contribute to AI model development, meaning your writing goes beyond the immediate service interaction.
Users of Grammarly's free consumer services should be aware that the actual text they submit, including emails, documents, and messages, may be used to train Grammarly's AI models; enterprise (Grammarly Business) users are explicitly carved out from this broader AI training use by the document's terms.
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