Mistral AI uses part of your IP address to tailor AI responses based on your location, but you can turn this off in your account preferences.
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The clause establishes IP address processing as a default operational practice tied to service personalization, with user control limited to an opt-out election rather than prior consent. This operational structure means location-based output optimization occurs unless the user affirmatively disables the practice.
The updated policy now explicitly includes data accessed through third-party services and integrations users connect to Mistral AI Products as 'Input' data subject to collection and use. The policy removed its prior statement that Input and Output data are not used to train AI models when using Le Chat Enterprise or paid versions of Mistral APIs. This creates operational ambiguity: users of paid services and Enterprise customers no longer have a documented commitment that their data will be excluded from model training, though the privacy policy does not affirmatively state that model training now occurs. The policy also changed language describing product improvement from 'aggregated and anonymous statistics' to 'aggregated or anonymous datasets or statistics,' broadening the stated scope of what can be collected for improvement purposes.
View change record →Mistral AI processes your partial IP address to personalise AI responses by location, but you can opt out of this specific processing through your Mistral AI account preferences at any time.
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"Your Usage Data. Please note that we use part of your IP address to make your experience better, such as, for instance, to provide you with more accurate Outputs depending on where you use our Mistral AI Products. You can opt-out of this processing at any time through your user preferences on your Mistral AI Account.Excerpt from Mistral AI's Privacy Policy
(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: IP addresses are personal data under GDPR (ECJ Case C-582/14, Breyer v Germany).
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The clause establishes IP address processing as a default operational practice tied to service personalization, with user control limited to an opt-out election rather than prior consent. This operational structure means location-based output optimization occurs unless the user affirmatively disables the practice.
Mistral AI processes your partial IP address to personalise AI responses by location, but you can opt out of this specific processing through your Mistral AI account preferences at any time.
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