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AnthropicAnnouncement
Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy
Summary
Anthropic is updating its Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy for Claude Free, Pro, and Max users, including Claude Code sessions tied to those accounts. Users can choose whether their data is used to improve Claude and strengthen safeguards against scams, abuse, and harmful content; the change excludes Commercial Terms services and API use. New users choose during signup, while existing users must decide by October 8, 2025; accepting immediately applies the updates to new or resumed chats and coding sessions, and the setting remains changeable in Privacy Settings. For users who opt in, retention will extend to five years, compared with 30 days otherwise, while deleted conversations are excluded from future training; Anthropic says it filters or obfuscates sensitive data and does not sell user data.
Context
The updates are intended to support more capable Claude models, improve model safety, and make harmful-content detection more accurate while reducing flags on harmless conversations.
Approach / What changed
Users receive a choice during signup or through an in-app notification and can change it in Privacy Settings. Opting in permits data use for model training and extends retention to five years; opting out keeps the existing 30-day retention period. Sensitive data is filtered or obfuscated.
Takeaways
The choice applies to Claude Free, Pro, and Max users, including Claude Code, but not Claude for Work, Claude for Government, Claude for Education, or API use.
Existing users must accept the updated Consumer Terms and choose a model-training preference by October 8, 2025, or make a selection to continue using Claude.
Deleted conversations will not be used for future model training, and Anthropic states that it does not sell users’ data to third parties.
Source and freshness
- Source
- anthropic.com
- Published
- Added to Yomu
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