Midjourney vs Claude

Midjourney can use, modify, sublicense, and distribute your prompts and generated assets forever, even after you leave. That means your content may be reused for service, product, or downstream purposes without additional payment or permission.

Content you post is publicly viewable and remixable unless you use the limited Stealth feature. In shared spaces like Discord, other people can still see your creations regardless of Stealth.

Disputes must go to binding arbitration in Santa Clara County, and you waive the right to a jury trial. This can make it harder and more expensive to bring claims in court.

Midjourney can update the agreement and keep the service terms changing over time, with continued use treated as acceptance. If you disagree, your only real option is to stop using the service.

The company can suspend or ban access at any time and for any reason. That creates a significant account-risk if your work depends on continuous access.

Midjourney says it uses third-party processors and does not store your credit card information, only confirmation that payment was made. That reduces the amount of sensitive payment data kept directly by Midjourney.

Midjourney says it may use analytics and advertising partners and advertising cookies to deliver more relevant ads. Users can opt out of certain sharing in privacy settings, but the default collection/sharing posture is still fairly broad.

The service collects prompts, uploaded content, IP address, cookies, usage data, and contact details. For an AI tool, that means the things you type and upload may become part of the service’s retained personal data footprint.

Personal data is kept as long as needed for the stated purposes, legal compliance, disputes, and enforcement. In practice, that means information may linger well beyond account use if Midjourney decides it is needed for legal or policy reasons.

EEA, UK, Swiss, and California users have access, correction, deletion, portability, and some objection/opt-out rights. The practical upside is a usable account-based path to request account/data deletion.

The policy gives a concrete path to delete your account and data through the account page, and says survey data can also be accessed and deleted. That makes rights requests more actionable than vague contact-only promises.

Anthropic may use your Inputs, Outputs, and feedback to improve services and train models unless you opt out in account settings. Even after opting out, flagged conversations and explicit feedback can still be used for model training and safety review.

Paid subscriptions renew automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current term. This can create surprise charges if you forget to cancel on time, and cancellation generally does not trigger a refund for the current term.

Anthropic shares data with affiliates, service providers, administrators for enterprise-linked accounts, and integrations you connect. If you use third-party services, Claude may send Inputs, Outputs, and instructions directly to those services, which then handle the data under their own policies.

The service is provided 'as is' and Anthropic disclaims warranties for accuracy, reliability, security, privacy, and availability. Practically, this limits your leverage if the AI gives bad outputs or the service misbehaves.

You can ask to port exportable data and digital assets or switch providers, which is a strong exit right for a consumer AI service. The terms also say Anthropic will assist with switching and erase exportable data after the process, subject to legal retention requirements.

The privacy policy says you can delete individual conversations immediately from history, with back-end deletion within 30 days, and you can also request deletion of personal data collected through the service. That gives users a relatively clear deletion path compared with many AI services.

Anthropic can suspend or terminate access for breach, legal compliance, security needs, or inactivity, and may delete Materials or other account data when the relationship ends. That means user content may be lost if the account is closed or terminated.

Anthropic states it does not sell personal data, and it honors global privacy controls for opting out of targeted advertising use of your data. This reduces a major privacy risk, though it does not stop sharing with service providers and integrations.

Disputes are governed by Irish law, but EEA and Swiss consumers may also bring claims in their local courts. That is better than an exclusive far-away forum and preserves practical access to remedies for covered users.

Anthropic says the service is not directed to children under 18 and it does not knowingly collect, use, disclose, sell, or share their information. That is a standard but useful baseline privacy safeguard.