Privacy Questions AI Must Survive

Most privacy policies are written like they are trying to win a fog machine.

AI image products cannot afford that. Users and buyers have specific questions. If the policy cannot answer them, the product starts to feel unsafe even when the engineering is better than average.

Question one: what content do you process? Name prompts, source images, masks, reference images, generated outputs, and keys separately. Do not hide them under “data” like everything is spiritually equivalent.

Question two: do you use content for training, evaluation, safety review, or product improvement? These are different uses. If the answer differs by account type or endpoint, say so.

Question three: what do you retain? Originals, outputs, thumbnails, prompt history, failed jobs, logs, delivery URLs, galleries, and support attachments all need answers. If operational metadata remains but content does not, say that clearly.

Question four: who can see content? Users, team members, support staff, operators, subprocessors, model providers, and legal reviewers are different audiences. A privacy policy that says “authorized personnel” and stops there is not doing enough for a serious AI image product.

Question five: how does deletion work? The policy should explain deletion across saved images, source uploads, generated outputs, account closure, backups, and legal retention. “You may delete your data” is not a complete sentence in an image product.

Question six: how do you handle children, other people’s faces, public figures, intimate imagery, and non-consensual use? The policy does not have to become a moral philosophy textbook. It does need to show the product understands obvious risk categories.

Question seven: do third-party image providers receive customer content? If yes, name the role and retention implications. If no, that is a product advantage. Use it.

The best privacy policy is not the longest one. It is the one that maps cleanly to how the product actually works.

Further reading: Your Data, What really happens when you upload your face to an AI tool, and the EU AI-generated content transparency code.