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Your Data Is Yours: Our Promise on What We Will Never Do

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Sam Ball
5 min read
In short: Your customer data is one of the most valuable things your business owns. Our promise is simple and permanent: we never sell it, we never pool it with other customers to enrich their records, and we never train our AI on it. What is in your account stays in your account, and it stays yours.

Your CRM holds something you have spent years building: your customers, your contacts, your history, the relationships your business runs on. It is, quietly, one of your most valuable assets. So the most important question to ask any system that holds it is not "what can it do?" It is "what will it do with my data?"

Recent events across the CRM world have put that question firmly back in the spotlight, with a lot of business owners suddenly re-reading the fine print and asking who really controls the data they thought was theirs. It is a good question to ask, of every provider, including us. So here is our answer, in plain words, with nothing buried in a settings menu.

Three things we will never do

We will never sell your data. Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to anyone. Your customer list is not a revenue stream for us. It is yours.

We will never pool your data with other customers. Your contacts and records are never fed into a shared dataset or used to enrich someone else's account. The idea that the list you built could quietly end up improving a competitor's data is exactly the kind of thing that should never happen, and with us it does not. What is in your account stays in your account.

We will never train our AI on your data. The AI in Jeanus helps you work with your own information. It does not absorb that information into a model that learns from it. Your data powers your experience, not our product.

Why this matters more than it used to

For years, "your data is yours" was something you could take for granted with a CRM. That is changing. As AI makes data more valuable, some providers have started to look at the information their customers store as a resource to be pooled, enriched and monetised, often with the customer opted in by default and left to find the off switch themselves.

We think that gets the relationship backwards. You are not the raw material. You are the customer. A CRM should be a place you trust to hold your data on your behalf, not a party quietly building a business on top of it.

Ownership by default, not on request

The difference that matters is the default. A promise that only holds if you dig through settings and switch things off is not really a promise. Ours is the default and the whole policy: your data is yours, we do not sell it, pool it or train on it, and that does not change based on a toggle you have to find.

If you are moving to a new system, or just re-reading the terms of the one you have, it is worth asking any provider those three questions directly: do you sell my data, do you share it with other customers, do you train your AI on it. You deserve a straight answer. Ours is no, no, and no.

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About the author: Sam Ball, Director and Founder of Pixel and Shovel, makers of Jeanus, the CRM and website platform for small businesses. Background: over a decade in wholesale and distribution before building tools for the sector.
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Quick questions

Does Jeanus sell my customer data?
No. Jeanus never sells your customer data to anyone, for any purpose. Your data is yours, and it stays that way.
Does Jeanus share or pool my data with other customers?
No. Your contacts and records are never pooled into a shared dataset or used to enrich another customer's account. What is in your account stays in your account.
Does Jeanus train its AI on my data?
No. Our AI does not train on your customer data. It works with your information to help you, without that information being absorbed into a model that learns from it.
Who owns the data in my CRM?
You do. Your customer list, your history and your records are your business asset. A CRM should hold your data on your behalf, not treat it as its own to use, share or sell.

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