Data use, training & retention
How this is scored
What happens to prompts, uploaded files, connected data and outputs: whether any of it trains a model (the vendor's or a model provider's), how long it is kept and where logs live, whether zero-retention is available, and whether a data processing agreement covers it.
0 — No statement on training or retention; the privacy policy is a website policy that does not cover the product.
3 — A general statement that business data is "not used for training", with no word on retention, on the model providers behind the product or on logs.
5 — Business data excluded from training by contract, retention periods stated for chats and files, and a DPA offered to business customers.
8 — No-training commitments stated for the vendor and every model provider it routes to, retention configurable by the admin (including deletion of chat history), zero-data-retention terms with the model providers named, and abuse-monitoring retention described.
10 — Data use fully accounted for: training, retention, logging and abuse monitoring stated per model provider, customer-controlled retention and deletion with an audit trail, outputs and connected data treated as customer data in the DPA, and an independent audit (SOC 2, ISO 27001 or ISO 42001) covering the product.
The Works Council Member
A Data Processing Agreement under Art. 28 GDPR is a mandatory prerequisite of the contract, retention is configurable by the organisation's administrator, deletion of chats, users and organisations is technically implemented, and log retention periods (up to 30 days for log files, at least 90 days for append-only audit logs) are written down — that is the kind of written prompt-and-log rule a works council needs. However, we found no public statement on whether prompts, files or outputs train any model, the vendor's or a provider's, and that silence is not something I can accept on staff input. 4 5 6 7