# Opting out of model training

Source: https://help.didit.me/data-privacy/opt-out-of-model-training
Updated: 2026-10-12

Stop Didit using your verification data to improve its models in Settings, General, Privacy and data use. One organization-wide switch, effective immediately.

Open **Business Console → Settings → General** for your organization, find the
**Privacy and data use** section, and turn off **Allow Didit to use my
organization's verification data to improve models**. Confirm **Opt out**. It
applies to the whole organization immediately.

Didit allows model training by default. Any organization owner or administrator can opt the whole organization out at any time, without contacting anyone.

## Opt out from the console

1. **Open your organization's General settings**

   Click **Settings** at the bottom of the sidebar, then **General** under your
   organization. It is the page that also holds your organization name, logo
   and details.

2. **Find the Privacy and data use section**

   Scroll down to **More settings** and find the **Privacy and data use**
   section.

3. **Turn the switch off**

   Turn off **Allow Didit to use my organization's verification data to improve
   models**.

4. **Confirm**

   A dialog asks **Opt out of model improvement?**. Click **Opt out**. The section
   then shows an **Opted out** badge.

## It is one switch for the whole organization

There is no per-application version of this setting, and it does not live under an application's settings. One switch in your organization's **General** settings covers every application in the organization, and every verification your organization has already run.

> **Warning:** This is a different setting from data retention. Retention lives per application
> under **Developers → API keys → General → Data retention** and controls how long Didit stores a
> session. The model training switch does not change retention, and changing
> retention does not opt you out of model training. See
> [how Didit protects your users' data](https://help.didit.me/data-privacy/how-didit-protects-data).

## What opting out does

Once the change takes effect, Didit excludes both your organization's historical and newly collected data from future:

- model training and fine-tuning;
- model evaluation and validation;
- dataset curation; and
- training-data exports.

Each effective change is recorded for audit purposes.

## What opting out does not do

- **It does not delete anything.** Your verification records stay exactly as they were. To remove data, see [deleting sessions and personal data](https://help.didit.me/data-privacy/delete-verification-data).
- **It does not change your retention window.**
- **It does not affect live processing.** Verification, fraud detection, support, security and compliance processing continue unchanged.
- **It is not retroactive on models.** Models already trained before you opt out are not retrained or untrained.

## Who can change it

Only members with permission to update the organization, which in practice means owners and administrators. Everyone else sees the current state but cannot change it. See [inviting team members and setting roles](https://help.didit.me/account-organization/team-members-and-roles).

## Turning it back on

Turn the switch on again and your organization's eligible data becomes available for future model work. There is no confirmation dialog for opting back in.

> **Note:** Opting out is self-serve, so support cannot do it for you and you do not need to
> email anyone. Other privacy requests, such as erasure on behalf of one of your
> users or a question about Didit's role as processor, still go to
> **privacy@didit.me**.