Does The Guardian train on your data?
The Guardian says it may use generative AI on personal data, and points to principles held on another page. What it may build from that data, this document does not say.
This clause is real, but it doesn't resolve the training question - see the finding below.
"The Guardian may use generative AI functionalities in our software and systems, including in our use of personal data."
- 7 Sept 2026
- 5 Oct 2026
- All readers and account holders
- uk
- Fetched from the company
- 390D7BAA…096F
Why this is still UNCLEAR: The admission is unusually direct for a newspaper: generative AI is used "in our software and systems, including in our use of personal data". Having said that, the policy sends the reader elsewhere — to a separate statement of generative AI principles — rather than settling the question here. "Train" does not appear in the document in any form. So a reader learns that AI touches their data and not whether their data builds the AI.
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.
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How to opt out of The Guardian AI training
Plan by plan, from what The Guardian'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 readers and account holders
Not graded, so no route is pointed at. The admission is unusually direct for a newspaper: generative AI is used "in our software and systems, including in our use of personal data". Having said that, the policy sends the reader elsewhere — to a separate statement of generative AI principles — rather than settling the question here. "Train" does not appear in the document in any form. So a reader learns that AI touches their data and not whether their data builds the AI.
What this policy has done since we started watching
No change detected. We've held a copy of The Guardian's policy since 30 Aug 2026 and re-read it since, across 2 captures. The text hasn't moved in a way that touches this verdict. That's a fact about the document, and it's only knowable by having kept the earlier copies.
Everything we read
Vendor response
We haven't yet written to The Guardian about this verdict, and they haven't disputed, clarified or announced a change to any clause quoted above. When either happens it's published here, word for word.
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