What they may do · DPDP §6(4)
What Claude (Anthropic) does with your data
Anthropic trains its AI models on your chats unless you opt out, may collect facial-geometry data if you verify your age or identity, and shares data with its affiliates and service providers; it says it does not sell your personal data.
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Shares your data with partners
Passed to group companies, advertisers or analytics firms you never chose.
What this costs you. Your number and habits travel to companies you have never heard of and never agreed to. This is the step where the spam calls start.
Show me where they say that
Claude (Anthropic)’s own policy says “Affiliates & corporate partners: Anthropic discloses the categories of personal data described above between and among its affiliates and related entities.”
Our summary personal data is disclosed to affiliates and related entities, and separately to service providers and business partners for hosting, research, auditing and data processing.
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Builds an advertising profile of you
They watch what you view, tap and buy, and use it to decide which ads you see.
What this costs you. Your attention gets priced. What you hesitate over becomes a bid — and a profile built to predict you is a profile built to persuade you.
Show me where they say that
Claude (Anthropic)’s own policy says “You can opt-out of sharing your personal data for targeted advertising to promote our products and services, and we will honor global privacy controls.”
Our summary personal data is shared for targeted advertising unless the user opts out, though the stated scope is advertising for Anthropic's own products and services, not third-party advertisers.
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Keeps your records long-term
Held on after you stop using the service.
What this costs you. Years after you delete the app, the record is still sitting there — and every year it sits there is another year it can leak.
Show me where they say that
Claude (Anthropic)’s own policy says “Where data is de-identified, Anthropic will maintain and use this information in its de-identified form, and will not attempt to re-identify such information, except as permitted by law.”
Our summary de-identified data is kept and used with no stated end date and, once de-identified, sits outside the reach of a user's deletion request.
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Processes your face or other biometrics
Face matching, liveness checks or similar.
What this costs you. You can change a leaked password in a minute. You cannot change your face. A biometric breach is permanent in a way nothing else is.
Show me where they say that
Claude (Anthropic)’s own policy says “If you choose to do so, data we will collect includes, depending on the method: an image of your government-issued identity document and the information appearing on it (such as your ID number and date of birth); your image in photo or video form, facial geometry templates (which may be considered ‘biometric data’ in some jurisdictions); and the result of the verification (for example, whether your age meets the applicable threshold).”
Our summary age or identity verification may collect a photo or video of the user's face and facial geometry templates, which the policy itself acknowledges may be biometric data.
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Trains AI models on your content
Your photos, messages or activity are used to train machine-learning models.
What this costs you. This one has no undo. Once your content is inside a trained model, no erasure request can lift it back out.
Show me where they say that
Claude (Anthropic)’s own policy says “We may use your Inputs and Outputs to train and improve Anthropic AI models, unless you opt out through your account settings.”
Our summary user prompts and model responses are used to train Anthropic's AI models on an opt-out basis, with stated exceptions for safety-flagged and user-reported content.
What the policy does not mention
These are uses Claude (Anthropic)’s policy is silent on. Silence is not a promise — it means the document does not say, and we do not infer either way.
- Follows you onto other websites and apps
Claude is one app. How many are on your phone?
Most people carry twenty to forty. Add yours and see the total in one screen — how many share your data, profile you for ads, or follow you across the web. Then take it back from all of them at once.
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Questions
What does Claude (Anthropic) do with my personal data?
According to Claude (Anthropic)'s own privacy policy, read on 2026-08-14, it discloses 5 of the six uses we track: shares your data with partners, builds an advertising profile of you, keeps your records long-term, processes your face or other biometrics, trains ai models on your content.
Can I withdraw my consent from Claude (Anthropic)?
Section 6(4) of India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 gives you the right to withdraw consent for processing you agreed to. The Act's substantive provisions commence in stages up to May 2027, so a request made now asks for voluntary compliance and puts the date on record. Processing a company carries out under a legal obligation — such as KYC records the RBI requires — cannot be withdrawn.
Does Claude (Anthropic) track me for advertising?
Yes — Claude (Anthropic)'s published policy discloses this. The exact sentence it is based on is quoted on this page, with the date we read it and a link to the source.
Every use above is one Claude (Anthropic) declared in its own published privacy policy, which we
read on 2026-08-14. Quotes are verbatim; the summary beside each one is ours
and is labelled as ours. Nothing here is inferred.
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