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Does Google Gemini train on your data? Gemini admin guide

On personal Google accounts, Gemini Apps chats can be used to improve Google AI and may be read by human reviewers while Keep Activity is on. With a work or school Google Workspace account, prompts and content are not human-reviewed and are not used to train models outside your domain without permission.

Vendor: Google · Last checked Oct 22, 2026 · 2 plans tracked

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Gemini Apps (personal Google account) consumer

Trains on your data?
Yes – opt-out With Keep Activity on, chats are used to improve Google services, including generative models, and a subset is read by human reviewers. Turn off Keep Activity or use temporary chats to stop future chats from being used. Chats are still processed to create anonymized data. source ↗ checked Oct 22, 2026
Retention
18 months by default Auto-delete can be changed to 3 or 36 months, or indefinite. Chats that human reviewers looked at are not deleted when you delete your activity. source ↗ checked Oct 22, 2026
SSO
Unknown Not verified from a vendor-owned source yet.
SCIM
Unknown Not verified from a vendor-owned source yet.
Audit logs
Unknown Not verified from a vendor-owned source yet.
Data residency
Unknown Not verified from a vendor-owned source yet.
DPA
Unknown Not verified from a vendor-owned source yet.

Gemini in Google Workspace (work/school account) business

Trains on your data?
No Not human-reviewed and not used to train generative AI models outside your domain without permission. This is backed by the Training Restriction in the Workspace Service Specific Terms. source ↗ checked Oct 22, 2026
Retention
Gemini app: up to 36 months, admin-set Admins decide whether Gemini app conversations are saved. Workspace content follows Vault retention. source ↗ checked Oct 22, 2026
SSO
Unknown Uses your Google Workspace identity. Separate Gemini SSO tiering was not checked.
SCIM
Unknown Not verified from a vendor-owned source yet.
Audit logs
Yes Workspace audit logs cover Gemini in the Gemini app and in Workspace apps (Reporting API, security investigation tool). source ↗ checked Oct 22, 2026
Data residency
yes – US/EU data regions (edition-dependent) Gemini app prompts and responses are covered by Workspace data regions at rest (Fundamental, Education and Enterprise Data Regions; Assured Controls). Requires an edition that includes data regions. source ↗ checked Oct 22, 2026
DPA
Yes Prompts are treated as customer data under the Cloud Data Processing Addendum. source ↗ checked Oct 22, 2026

How to block or allow Gemini

  1. admin-console

    Turn the Gemini app on or off per OU

    Google Admin console → Generative AI → Gemini App lets you turn the Gemini app on or off, including per organizational unit.

    source ↗ checked Oct 22, 2026

Domains

“Primary domain only” means we haven't found a full endpoint list from the vendor, so blocking just this domain may not catch every API or desktop-app endpoint.

Change history

No changes recorded since our baseline snapshot on Oct 22, 2026.

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