Ideogram keeps your personal data for as long as it needs to in order to provide the service and meet legal obligations, without specifying a fixed retention period.
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The absence of specific retention periods makes it difficult for users to know how long their prompts, images, and account data are stored, and creates compliance ambiguity under GDPR's data minimization and storage limitation principles.
The updated policy now provides explicit disclosure of which categories of personal information are collected and which parties receive each category. Previously, the policy required readers to consult other sections to identify this information. The updated table format discloses that identifiers such as name and email address, visual information including uploaded images, and geolocation data may be shared with other users, vendors, service providers, login integration partners, social media widgets, and affiliates. This change provides clearer visibility into data sharing practices without altering what data is collected or shared, but rather how that information is disclosed.
View change record →The updated policy no longer provides a single consolidated view of which specific categories of recipients receive which types of personal data. Previously, users could see in one table that identifiers, commercial information, geolocation data, images, account credentials, and precise location were shared with specific recipient categories such as vendors, service providers, other users, login partners, social media widgets, and tracking technology providers. The revised policy instead directs users to review other sections of the document to find this information. The specificity and accessibility of this disclosure has been reduced, though the underlying data-sharing practices may remain unchanged.
View change record →Your personal data, including prompts and generated images, may be retained indefinitely as long as Ideogram determines it serves a legitimate purpose, with no specific deletion timeline disclosed.
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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, or to resolve disputes.Excerpt from Ideogram's Privacy Policy
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Data retention practices implicate GDPR Article 5(1)(e) (storage limitation principle), which requires personal data to be kept no longer than necessary for specified purposes, with documented retention schedules.
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The absence of specific retention periods makes it difficult for users to know how long their prompts, images, and account data are stored, and creates compliance ambiguity under GDPR's data minimization and storage limitation principles.
Your personal data, including prompts and generated images, may be retained indefinitely as long as Ideogram determines it serves a legitimate purpose, with no specific deletion timeline disclosed.
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