Is Grammarly safe for business data?
Team accounts bought through Grammarly’s Sales team start with “Product Improvement and Training” off; on Free, Premium, single-user Pro, and team accounts bought on the website, it starts on, so your writing may train Grammarly’s models until you turn it off.
Training, plan by plan
- Used for training: Free, Premium, and single-user Pro: used by default, unless you turn it off.
- Used for training: Team accounts bought on the website: used at first, until an admin opts out.
- Not used for training: Business, Education, Pro, and Enterprise bought through Sales: not used by default.
What it does with your data
| Question | Free, Premium, and single-user Pro | Team accounts bought on the website | Business, Education, Pro, and Enterprise bought through Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trains on your data by default? | Yes, by default. Grammarly says “Product Improvement and Training is on for individual users by default.” Turn it off in your account settings. Read on October 23, 2026 · source: support.grammarly.com | Yes, at first. Grammarly says training “will initially be on” for multi-user team accounts bought on its website, and an admin can opt out for the whole organization. Read on October 23, 2026 · source: support.grammarly.com | No, not by default. Grammarly says training is automatically off for these accounts. Read on October 23, 2026 · source: support.grammarly.com |
| How long chats are kept | Documents you save in the Grammarly Editor are kept until you delete them or your account. Other data is kept as long as needed for the purposes in the privacy policy. Read on October 23, 2026 · source: grammarly.com | Not stated for team accounts on the pages we read. Not confirmed · page checked: support.grammarly.com, October 23, 2026 | Not stated for these accounts on the pages we read. Not confirmed · page checked: support.grammarly.com, October 23, 2026 |
| Who can read them | Not described on the pages we read. Not confirmed · page checked: grammarly.com, October 23, 2026 | Not described on the pages we read. Grammarly says only admins can change the training control on these accounts. Not confirmed · page checked: support.grammarly.com, October 23, 2026 | Not described on the pages we read. Not confirmed · page checked: support.grammarly.com, October 23, 2026 |
| Where data is stored | For people in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland, the privacy policy describes transfers of personal data to the United States under the Data Privacy Framework. It does not say where other users’ data is stored. Read on October 23, 2026 · source: grammarly.com | Not stated for team accounts on the pages we read. Not confirmed · page checked: grammarly.com, October 23, 2026 | Not stated for these accounts on the pages we read. Not confirmed · page checked: grammarly.com, October 23, 2026 |
| How to delete | Hover over a document in the Grammarly Editor and click the trash bin icon. The Trash is emptied after 30 days, or click “Empty Trash” to delete for good now. Read on October 23, 2026 · source: support.grammarly.com | Same steps in the Grammarly Editor: trash bin icon, then “Empty Trash” to delete for good. Read on October 23, 2026 · source: support.grammarly.com | Same steps in the Grammarly Editor: trash bin icon, then “Empty Trash” to delete for good. Read on October 23, 2026 · source: support.grammarly.com |
How to turn training off
- On a personal account, turn off “Product Improvement and Training” in your account settings. Source: support.grammarly.com
- On a team account bought on Grammarly’s website, an admin turns it off for everyone at account.grammarly.com/admin/data_settings. It starts on. Source: support.grammarly.com
- Delete saved documents you no longer need, then empty the Trash. Otherwise they stay there for 30 days. Source: support.grammarly.com
Safer setup for a small team
Buy team accounts through Grammarly’s Sales team, where training starts off, or have your admin turn off “Product Improvement and Training” for the whole organization.
Plan to approve: A team account with training turned off
Setting to check: “Product Improvement and Training”
A line for your AI policy: Staff use Grammarly only through our company team account, where “Product Improvement and Training” is turned off for everyone.
Want this in your team’s AI policy? The SafeStart kit, a plain-English AI policy and training for small teams, is coming soon.
Questions about your own setup? Write to hello@terrapilgrim.org.
What changed
No changes recorded since we first published this page on October 23, 2026. Every change goes in the change log.
Sources (4)
- support.grammarly.com/hc/en-us/articles/25555503115277-Product-Improvement-and… · read on October 23, 2026
“Product Improvement and Training is on for individual users by default.”
- grammarly.com/trust · read on October 23, 2026
“if you save a document in the Grammarly Editor, we’ll store it until you delete the document or your Grammarly account.”
- grammarly.com/privacy-policy · read on October 23, 2026
“Transfers to the United States”
- support.grammarly.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000091371-Delete-and-recover-docume… · read on October 23, 2026
“Documents in your trash bin will be permanently deleted after 30 days.”
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