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The provision creates differentiated retention schedules across API product lines, establishing operational periods during which Mistral AI maintains access to input and output data for service delivery, abuse detection, and account-based services. The authorization for zero data retention represents an alternative configuration users may elect.
The updated policy now explicitly includes data accessed through third-party services and integrations users connect to Mistral AI Products as 'Input' data subject to collection and use. The policy removed its prior statement that Input and Output data are not used to train AI models when using Le Chat Enterprise or paid versions of Mistral APIs. This creates operational ambiguity: users of paid services and Enterprise customers no longer have a documented commitment that their data will be excluded from model training, though the privacy policy does not affirmatively state that model training now occurs. The policy also changed language describing product improvement from 'aggregated and anonymous statistics' to 'aggregated or anonymous datasets or statistics,' broadening the stated scope of what can be collected for improvement purposes.
View change record →Users' API inputs and outputs remain retained by Mistral AI under the stated schedule unless they activate zero data retention; for Agents and Fine-Tuning APIs specifically, data retention extends through account lifecycle or until explicit deletion by the user. The terms authorize a rolling 30-day post-processing retention window for standard API usage to support abuse monitoring.
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"Data we use to provide our APIs to you: Except for specific APIs, we keep your Input and Output for the period necessary to generate the Output and then for thirty (30) rolling days to monitor abuse (unless zero data retention is activated). If you use our Agents API, we keep your Input and Output until you terminate your account. If you use our Fine-Tuning API, we keep your fine-tuning data until you delete it from Mistral AI Studio or until you terminate your account.Excerpt from Mistral AI's Privacy Policy
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The provision creates differentiated retention schedules across API product lines, establishing operational periods during which Mistral AI maintains access to input and output data for service delivery, abuse detection, and account-based services. The authorization for zero data retention represents an alternative configuration users may elect.
Users' API inputs and outputs remain retained by Mistral AI under the stated schedule unless they activate zero data retention; for Agents and Fine-Tuning APIs specifically, data retention extends through account lifecycle or until explicit deletion by the user. The terms authorize a rolling 30-day post-processing retention window for standard API usage to support abuse monitoring.
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