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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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We will retain your Data for as long as necessary: (i) to achieve the purposes as set out in this Policy; (ii) as required by applicable laws and regulations, including any mandated retention periods...
After you submit a request to delete your account, we initiate a deletion process to safely and completely remove your data from our servers or retain it only in anonymized form.
We will promptly destroy personal information at the end of the retention period, as described above. When we destroy personal information, we do so in a way that prevents that information from being restored or reconstructed.
"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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