Does Depop train on your data?
Depop's policy never uses the word "train". Its help centre says its recommendation systems "learn your interests" from what you view, like and buy. Neither says whether any of it trains a model.
This clause is real, but it doesn't resolve the training question - see the finding below.
"In some cases to protect our Service, this detection and enforcement takes place automatically using machine learning tools (such as in the case of detecting fraud, phishing, commercial spam or users that may have previously been removed from our Service)."
- 7 Sept 2026
- 5 Oct 2026
- All accounts
- uk
- Fetched from the company
- AB54E093…0F0F
Why this is still UNCLEAR: "Train" doesn't appear in this policy in any form, and neither does "artificial intelligence". "Machine learning" appears exactly once, quoted below, and it describes a tool used to catch fraud and spam, not anything built from your data. Depop holds listings, messages, photographs and location, and the document is precise about using them to detect abuse and to run recommendations. On whether any of it reaches a model it's silent. One thing it isn't silent about is the price of leaving the recommender: "If you do not want us to use your data to do this, you must close your Depop account and cease using our Service." That's a clear answer to a different question. Effective 3 September 2023, and unchanged since. The help centre, read on 23 September 2026, has the same shape. Its page on ranking says "Our recommendation systems learn your interests quickly from the listings you view, like, add to bag, and buy." A system that learns from your activity, described without the word train, and no setting beyond your interests and sizes. Depop is being written to.
What each plan can refuse
The same questions, asked of every plan we could identify. Every cell comes from a quoted clause or a documented search - see the evidence above.
- Not established
- Not stated
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- Not established
How to opt out of Depop AI training
Plan by plan, from what Depop's own policy says about refusing. Where it publishes the steps, they're listed here with the limits they carry. Where there's nothing to switch off, or nothing graded, this says so instead of inventing a menu path.
All accounts
Not graded, so no route is pointed at. "Train" doesn't appear in this policy in any form, and neither does "artificial intelligence". "Machine learning" appears exactly once, quoted below, and it describes a tool used to catch fraud and spam, not anything built from your data. Depop holds listings, messages, photographs and location, and the document is precise about using them to detect abuse and to run recommendations. On whether any of it reaches a model it's silent. One thing it isn't silent about is the price of leaving the recommender: "If you do not want us to use your data to do this, you must close your Depop account and cease using our Service." That's a clear answer to a different question. Effective 3 September 2023, and unchanged since. The help centre, read on 23 September 2026, has the same shape. Its page on ranking says "Our recommendation systems learn your interests quickly from the listings you view, like, add to bag, and buy." A system that learns from your activity, described without the word train, and no setting beyond your interests and sizes. Depop is being written to.
What this policy has done since we started watching
No change detected. We've held a copy of Depop's documents since 1 Aug 2026 and re-read them since, across 3 captures of 2 documents. The text hasn't moved in a way that touches this verdict. That's a fact about the documents, and it's only knowable by having kept the earlier copies.
Vendor response
We wrote to Depop on 2 Oct 2026, quoting the clauses above and inviting a correction. Nothing has come back. That's published because a company declining to comment on its own policy is something a reader should know, and because the invitation should be on the record whether or not it's taken up. Any reply goes here, word for word.
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