Inflection AI keeps your personal data for as long as it considers necessary to run its services or meet legal requirements, and states it will delete or anonymize data when it no longer needs it.
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Open-ended retention language tied to broad purposes like service improvement and AI training means personal data, including conversation history, could be retained for extended and indeterminate periods.
Interpretive note: No specific retention periods are stated for individual data categories in the available policy text, creating ambiguity about how long different types of personal data, particularly AI training datasets, are retained.
The updated policy establishes broader data collection practices than previously disclosed. The terms now explicitly state the company collects voice and audio inputs alongside text, whereas prior language specified only text and other materials. Additionally, the policy now discloses collection of precise geolocation information with user consent and authorization to access contacts, emails, calendars, and documents from third-party platforms. You can stop collection of precise location information at any time through the Your Choices section.
View change record →Your personal data, including conversation content used for AI training, may be retained indefinitely under the policy's broad retention criteria, with no specific timeframes disclosed for most data categories.
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We retain personal information for as long as necessary to provide our services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. The specific retention periods depend on the type of information and the purposes for which it is processed.
We keep information for as long as we need it to provide our products, comply with legal obligations, or for other legitimate purposes, such as to maintain safety, security, and integrity.
After your account is deleted, we keep data about interactions you've had on our service to prevent abuse, ban evaders and others in an effort to protect and ensure the safety and security of our service and our members.
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"We retain personal information for as long as necessary to provide our services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. When we no longer need your personal information, we will delete or anonymize it.— Excerpt from Inflection AI's Inflection AI Privacy Policy
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Data retention practices engage GDPR Article 5(1)(e) storage limitation principles, which require that personal data be kept no longer than necessary for the purposes for which it was collected. Open-ended retention tied to service improvement or AI training purposes may face scrutiny under this principle. CCPA does not impose specific retention limits but requires accurate disclosure of retention practices. The FTC Act applies to materially deceptive retention representations. GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. The absence of specific retention periods for key data categories (particularly conversation content used for AI training) is a gap relative to GDPR best practice, which recommends or requires defining retention schedules for each data category. EU data protection authorities have taken enforcement action against companies for inadequate retention limitation practices. JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU/EEA users face the greatest exposure under GDPR's storage limitation principle. California users under CPRA have rights to know retention periods for their personal data categories and may request deletion, but CPRA does not impose maximum retention limits directly. CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Enterprise customers in regulated industries (financial services, healthcare) that use Inflection AI for customer-facing interactions should confirm that Inflection AI's retention practices are compatible with their own regulatory retention and deletion obligations, as conflicting retention schedules could create compliance risk. COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Compliance teams should request Inflection AI's data retention schedule for each data category, particularly for conversation content and AI training datasets, and assess whether stated retention purposes satisfy GDPR's necessity standard. Privacy notices for EU users should specify retention periods or the criteria used to determine them as required by GDPR Articles 13 and 14.
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Open-ended retention language tied to broad purposes like service improvement and AI training means personal data, including conversation history, could be retained for extended and indeterminate periods.
Your personal data, including conversation content used for AI training, may be retained indefinitely under the policy's broad retention criteria, with no specific timeframes disclosed for most data categories.
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