Strongest: Data Sharing
75/100
Claude Desktop benefits from Anthropic's account privacy settings, Incognito chats, exports, and deletion controls.
Claude Desktop is an Anthropic product surface, reviewed for desktop app prompts, files, local integrations, and account data, model-improvement controls, sharing, retention, and user or admin controls.
65
Mixed
65
Mixed
Claude Desktop follows Anthropic's consumer Claude privacy posture, including model-improvement use unless the user disables the setting.
Claude Desktop benefits from Anthropic's account privacy settings, Incognito chats, exports, and deletion controls.
Desktop use can feel local, but prompts and attachments are still cloud service inputs with training, safety, and feedback exceptions.
45
Weak
Consumer Claude chats and Claude Code sessions may be used for model improvement unless the user turns off Help Improve Claude.
Explicit feedback and safety-review workflows can still route related conversations into model-improvement or safeguard-improvement processes.
Turning off model improvement stops new chats and eligible stored chats from future model training.
Anthropic says business-offering content is governed by customer agreements rather than the consumer Claude settings.
75
Good
Anthropic documents account, privacy, and service-provider handling.
Data can flow through organization owners, connectors, service providers, safety systems, and legal recipients.
65
Mixed
Anthropic processes usage, technical, account, and security metadata.
Users or organizations can manage some account, connector, and privacy settings.
50
Weak
If model improvement is allowed, data may remain in de-identified training pipelines for up to 5 years.
Safety-flagged content and safety classification data can have longer retention windows than normal deleted chats.
Feedback can keep the related conversation for longer review and improvement workflows.
Deleted consumer chats are removed from history immediately and deleted from backend systems within 30 days.
75
Good
Users or admins can manage access, connectors, exports, and privacy settings.
Organization-managed accounts can give owners control over exports, access, and feature availability.
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Open: privacy.anthropic.com1. AI Use
Consumer Claude chats and Claude Code sessions may be used for model improvement unless the user turns off Help Improve Claude.
2. AI Use
Explicit feedback and safety-review workflows can still route related conversations into model-improvement or safeguard-improvement processes.
3. AI Use
Turning off model improvement stops new chats and eligible stored chats from future model training.
4. Controls
Anthropic says business-offering content is governed by customer agreements rather than the consumer Claude settings.
Founded
Jan 2021
Founder
Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei
Parent Company
Anthropic
Lifecycle
Active
Category
AI Assistants & Models
CEO
Dario Amodei
Security Team
Security Team
Date Added
06-10-2026
