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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 Grammarly Privacy Policy
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages GDPR Articles 5 (purpose limitation, data minimization) and 6 (lawful basis) for EEA users, as secondary use of user content for AI training may require a lawful basis distinct from service provision. The Irish Data Protection Commission, as likely lead supervisory authority, is the primary enforcement body. CPRA provisions on secondary use of personal information and the California AG are also relevant for California residents. The EU AI Act's requirements for transparency and data governance in AI system development may also engage with this practice. GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: High. The use of content submitted by users for AI model training is a material secondary processing purpose that may require explicit disclosure, separate consent, or a documented legitimate interests assessment under GDPR. The document discloses this practice but does not specify whether an opt-out mechanism is available for consumer users specifically in relation to AI training. JURISDICTION FLAGS: EEA users have the highest exposure given GDPR's strict purpose limitation requirements. California users may have CPRA rights to limit use of personal information for secondary purposes. The explicit carve-out for Grammarly Business users reduces enterprise risk but requires verification through the applicable data processing agreement. Jurisdictions with emerging AI-specific data laws may create additional compliance obligations. CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Organizations deploying Grammarly for employee use should confirm through their Grammarly Business data processing agreement that employee-submitted content is excluded from AI training pipelines. Procurement teams should request documentation of data flows and retention periods associated with training data use. This provision creates a meaningful distinction between consumer and business product tiers that should be reflected in vendor risk assessments. COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Legal teams should evaluate whether Grammarly's disclosed AI training use is compatible with their own data handling obligations, particularly in healthcare (HIPAA), legal (privilege), and financial services (confidentiality) contexts. A legitimate interests assessment or records of processing activities update may be warranted for organizations acting as data controllers whose employees use the consumer product. Consumer-facing compliance teams should verify what opt-out or objection mechanisms Grammarly provides for this processing purpose and whether those mechanisms meet applicable regulatory standards.
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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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