This article is about our consumer products (e.g. Claude Free, Claude Pro). For our commercial products (e.g. Claude for Work, Anthropic API), see here.
Optional Collection for Product Features
When you use product features that benefit from location data (for example, using web search to ask Claude to find local results), Claude may use your IP address to determine coarse-grained location (city/region level). Anthropic currently does not collect precise location data (e.g. location inferred from GPS, Wifi, Bluetooth, etc.) from our users.
You can disable usage of location data to enhance product features like web search from your privacy dashboard.
Mandatory Collection for Platform Security and Anti-Abuse
Anthropic uses IP address and other signals to infer coarse-grained location (country/region level) in order to ensure usage of Claude complies with our terms, prevent abuse, and show users features available in their region. This use is necessary to protect our users and business and cannot be toggled off. Please refer to our Privacy Policy to learn more.