Switch these off this week.
36 of the apps on this site train on your data by default and point at a setting you can turn off yourself. Nobody flips it for you, and nothing asked first. Worst first, with the sentence each policy uses and, where the company publishes them, the steps in its own words.
“To develop and improve our Service and to conduct research: For example to develop new product features, to train our models, to identify usage trends, to operate and expand our business activities, to identify new cust…”
- Open Settings, then Data Controls.
- Deselect "Improve the model".
- Open Settings, then Data.
- Deselect "Improve the Model".
“Google uses your activity to provide, develop, and improve its services (including training generative AI models), as well as to protect Google, its users, and the public with the help of human reviewers. Data reviewed…”
- Open Gemini Apps Activity, from the menu in Gemini or at myactivity.google.com.
- Turn off Keep Activity. Future chats are then not used to improve Google's AI unless you send feedback.
- For a single conversation, start a temporary chat instead. Temporary chats are not used to train Google's AI models.
“to develop and improve our products and technologies, including to evaluate, fine-tune, and train the AI models that power our products and technology. If you do not want us to use your information to train AI models, y…”
- Go to app.instinct.com/settings, the page the policy names. It does not name the control on that page.
- Material you add to the Vault is not trained on at all, whatever the switch says.
“If you choose to turn off "Privacy Mode": we may use and store codebase data, prompts, editor actions, code snippets, and other code data and actions to improve our AI features and train our models.”
- Open Cursor Settings: Cmd+Shift+J on a Mac, Ctrl+Shift+J on Windows or Linux.
- Click General in the sidebar.
- Turn Privacy Mode on.
“Miro will provide you with reasonable means to object to such use.”
- Open the Admin Console.
- Go to Security, then Miro AI.
- Turn off "Use data for Miro AI improvements".
“Improve or create services and products, including our AI models.”
- Open your Account settings.
- Go to the Preferences page.
- Switch off the AI data retention toggle.
“We may use such information to train Recraft's own proprietary AI models, but you may disallow such use of your information by opting out in your account profile settings.”
- Log in to Recraft on desktop.
- Go to your Profile settings.
- Near "Help improve Recraft", turn the toggle off.
“Snap may use the images, videos, audio, and text content that you have posted publicly on Snapchat (such as posts to Spotlight, Public Stories, and the Snap Map) to develop, train, and improve Snap's generative AI conte…”
- Tap the settings gear to open Settings.
- Under Privacy Control, tap Manage My Information.
- Turn off the setting for Snap using your Public Content to train generative AI models. It applies going forward only.
“To improve and develop our Services and conduct research, including to train and improve our models and develop new product features. When we use your Inputs and Outputs to train our models, you can opt-out of our use o…”
- Log in and select your avatar in the top right corner.
- In the drop-down, select the account Settings.
- Under User Preferences, set the Training, Improve the Model for Everyone toggle to Off.
- Go to platform.stability.ai/account/overview.
- Set the Training, Improve the Model for Everyone toggle to No.
“In addition, if you do not want Airbnb to use your personal information to develop and improve AI models that power certain features on Airbnb, you can set your preferences as described here .”
- Open Menu, then Account settings, then Privacy.
- Under Data privacy, untick "Help improve AI-powered features" (the tick means on).
“and to train our algorithms, models and AI products and services using machine learning to develop, improve and provide our Service. You can manage the use of your data for training AI to improve our Service in the priv…”
- Click your profile icon on the Canva homepage.
- Choose Your account, then Privacy controls.
- Switch off the permission covering use of your content to train AI.
“Develop new products and Service, and improve existing products and features of the Service, including by training, fine-tuning and improving the performance of models that support our AI features;”
- Open Settings, then Privacy, or search "privacy" in the Command Palette.
- Toggle off "Help improve Warp".
“It lets you choose whether Wispr may use your Dictation data-audio, transcripts, and edits-to evaluate, train, or improve AI models.”
- Open Settings, then Data and Privacy.
- Turn off "Improve the model for everyone".
“How Adobe analyzes your content using techniques such as machine learning in order to improve our Services and Software, and how to opt out of this.”
- Sign in at account.adobe.com/privacy.
- In the "Content analysis for product improvement" section, click the Off toggle.
“As part of our efforts to improve and develop our products, we may use your data to develop, train, and fine-tune our AI models, including large language models (LLMs).”
- Select your profile icon, then your profile name.
- Select Privacy.
- Turn off Training on conversation activity, and Training on voice conversations if you use voice.
- Select your profile icon, then Settings.
- Select Privacy.
- Turn off Training on conversation activity.
“Additionally, Duolingo may generate, record, and store audio recordings or transcripts of the text and audio you submit, and use these recordings or transcripts for product improvement and personalization purposes, incl…”
- Open Settings in the Duolingo app.
- Turn off sharing your audio with Duolingo for product improvement.
“You can decide whether Superhuman can use your user content to train our AI models by adjusting the available training control(s) in your account settings.”
- Go to account.grammarly.com/security/privacy.
- Click the "Product Improvement and Training" toggle to switch it off.
“As part of our efforts to improve and develop our products, we may use your data to develop, train, and fine-tune our AI models, including large language models (LLMs).”
- Select your profile icon, then your profile name.
- Select Privacy.
- Turn off Training on conversation activity, and Training on voice conversations if you use voice.
- Select your profile icon, then Settings.
- Select Privacy.
- Turn off Training on conversation activity.
“As noted above, we may use Content you provide us to improve our Services, for example to train the models that power ChatGPT. Read our instructions (opens in a new window) on how you can opt out of our use of your Co…”
- Open your account menu, then Settings.
- Select Data controls.
- Select "Improve the model for everyone", turn it off, and select Done.
- Open the sidebar.
- Tap your profile icon to open Settings.
- Turn off "Improve the model for everyone".
“For extensions users on versions 4.37.0 or above, we offer two data controls to opt out of: (1) allowing Quillbot to store text inputs (all users) and (2) allowing Quillbot to use text inputs to train the models that po…”
- Click the QuillBot extension icon to open Extension Settings, or open the Popup Menu.
- Click View All Settings.
- Open the Data and Privacy menu and switch off the control for using your text inputs to train the models.
“We use information to enhance the quality, reliability, and/or accuracy of our AI Features by creating, developing, training, testing, improving, and maintaining AI and ML models run by Strava or our service providers.…”
- Open Settings, then Privacy Controls.
- Under Product Improvements, switch off contributing your data.
“if you are on a Hobby plan or trial Pro plan, you agree that we may use Your Content to train our artificial intelligence”
- Click Team Settings in the top left of the dashboard, not Account Settings.
- Click Data Preferences.
- Toggle from Opt-In to Opt-Out.
“We may use your Inputs and Outputs to train and improve Anthropic AI models, unless you opt out through your account settings. Even if you opt-out, we will use Inputs and Outputs for model improvement when: (i) your con…”
- Click your name in the settings menu, then Settings.
- Open Privacy.
- Under "Help Improve our AI models", switch the toggle off.
- Tap your name in the settings menu, then Settings.
- Tap Privacy.
- Under "Help Improve our AI models", switch the toggle off.
“With specific regard to the processing of your personal data for the purpose of training and improving our AI models, you have the right to opt out at any time.”
- Log in and open Settings.
- Select "Data & Privacy".
- De-select "Improve the Model for Everyone".
- Select "Account".
- Select "Manage Account & Data".
- Select "Model Improvement" and de-select "Improve the Model for Everyone".
“AdCreative.ai uses anonymized user data for the purpose of improving and training its artificial intelligence systems.”
- Look for the consent control in your account settings; the policy doesn't name it.
- Or email appier_dpo@appier.com to revoke consent.
“Opt-out of Processing Your Data for Training: You may opt out of our use of your Personal Data for training at any time by navigating to the 'Data use' menu in the 'Terms and Privacy' section of your ElevenLabs account.”
- Open your ElevenLabs account settings.
- Go to Terms and Privacy, then the Data use menu.
- Opt out of the use of your data for training.
“For Starter and Professional, content training is set to 'on' by default - admins can opt out”
- From the file browser, open your team and click All Folders in the left sidebar.
- Open the menu next to your team name and choose View settings.
- Go to the Settings tab and scroll to the AI section.
- Select Manage AI settings.
- Toggle Content training off.
- From the file browser, open your team and click Admin in the left sidebar.
- Open the Settings tab and scroll to the AI section.
- Select Manage AI settings and toggle Content training off.
“We use Customer Content and Usage Data - which may include Personal Data - to train, develop, fine-tune, and improve our AI models and AI-powered features, including models we operate within the Services and models we m…”
- Open your account settings and turn off model training; the policy says the switch is on every plan, at no cost, and does not affect the AI features.
- Content already in training sets, or in models already trained, stays there.
“Some of these Inferences based on activity and recommendations utilize internal machine learning models and may be supported by AI Service Providers. We use this data to build, train, analyze and improve the accuracy of…”
- Open your Profile and go to Preferences.
- Open the Privacy section.
- Toggle off "Personalized Experiences".
“We do not use Your Data to train our artificial intelligence models except (a) when you have not opted out of training or (b) when you provide Feedback to us.”
- Open Settings.
- Under Account, select Data & Account Controls.
- Untick "Enable data sharing".
“Individuals (Free, Plus, Pro, and Ultra): Data is allowed to be used to train AI models”
- Click your avatar or initials in the lower-left corner of the Gamma dashboard.
- Select Settings, then open the Data Controls tab.
- Turn off the use of your data to train Gamma's AI models.
“If you're using a non-commercial license, detailed code‐related data collection is enabled by default - you can disable it in the IDE settings via Settings | Appearance & Behavior | System Settings | Data Sharing .”
- Open Settings, then Appearance & Behavior, System Settings, Data Sharing.
- Turn off sending detailed code-related data.
“We may also use Your Content to improve our Services, to develop other products and services, and for other business purposes, including training and testing our Models.”
- Add mip_opt_out=true as a query parameter to every request you want excluded.
- The opt-out applies to that request only; requests without it are used.
- Open your settings in Saga.
- Use the opt-out choice there; new content after that is not used.
“Where permitted under applicable law, we use personal data collected from our users to train, test, validate, and align our own AI models as well as third-party AI models and systems that we use for the purposes outline…”
- Sign in and open My eBay, then Account, then "AI development and training preferences" (accountsettings.ebay.com/ai-preferences).
- Switch "Use personal data for AI development and training" from Yes to No.
“Based on how you configure your account settings, we may use and create de-identified data generated from Meeting Content Information to improve our Service by training, improving, and customizing our in-house artificia…”
- Open your account settings (Fathom's Trust Center calls them User Settings, at fathom.video/customize).
- Turn off the use of your data to improve Fathom's models.
- An organisation admin opens Organization Settings.
- Opt out every user on the account there; the Trust Center says this covers all users.
“We only use de-identified data to train AI models, which you can opt-out of within your Granola account settings .”
- Open Settings, then Preferences.
- Find the setting "Use my data to improve models for everyone".
- Turn the toggle off.