Cohere keeps your personal data for as long as your account is active or as long as is needed to run its services and meet legal obligations, without specifying a fixed retention period.
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The absence of specific retention periods means personal data including submitted inputs, account data, and usage data may be retained indefinitely as long as the account is active or legal obligations require it, without a fixed deletion timeline.
Interpretive note: Specific retention periods for individual data categories are not available from the truncated document; the description reflects the general standard retention framework referenced in comparable Cohere policy versions.
The updated policy removes explicit language describing data retention timelines and deletion request procedures that were previously available. The prior policy stated that Enterprise Users' inputs and outputs were retained for 30 days, that Trial Users and Researchers were not intended to process personal information, and that deletion requests would normally be responded to within one month (up to three months for complex requests). The updated policy now contains only a general reference to 'retention practices' without specifying these timelines, response windows, or user-type distinctions. Users cannot determine from the updated policy what retention periods apply to their account category or what timeline to expect for deletion requests.
View change record →Personal data is retained for the duration of account activity and for periods required by law, with no specific retention period stated in the policy. Users wishing to have their data deleted before these default periods should submit a deletion request to privacy@cohere.com.
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"We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, and for as long as your account remains active or as needed to provide you Services.Excerpt from Cohere's Privacy Policy
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The absence of specific retention periods means personal data including submitted inputs, account data, and usage data may be retained indefinitely as long as the account is active or legal obligations require it, without a fixed deletion timeline.
Personal data is retained for the duration of account activity and for periods required by law, with no specific retention period stated in the policy. Users wishing to have their data deleted before these default periods should submit a deletion request to privacy@cohere.com.
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