For regular Le Chat users, your conversations are kept indefinitely until you delete them or close your account. For API users, conversations are kept for 30 rolling days for abuse monitoring, unless you have zero data retention enabled.
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Le Chat conversations do not automatically expire, meaning every prompt and response you have ever sent is retained by Mistral AI until you take action to delete it, which creates a significant accumulating personal data record.
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 →Merged two separate provisions ('Data Retention — Le Chat Conversations' and 'Data Retention — API Inputs and Outputs') into single provision; added clarification about API data retention and 30-day rolling window for abuse monitoring.
View full change record →Le Chat users' full conversation history is retained indefinitely unless manually deleted or the account is closed; API users have a 30-day default retention window that can be reduced to zero, giving them more control over data minimization.
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"Data we use to provide Le Chat to you: we keep your Input and Output until you delete your account or until you delete the conversation from Le Chat. [...] 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).Excerpt from Mistral AI's Privacy Policy
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Le Chat conversations do not automatically expire, meaning every prompt and response you have ever sent is retained by Mistral AI until you take action to delete it, which creates a significant accumulating personal data record.
Le Chat users' full conversation history is retained indefinitely unless manually deleted or the account is closed; API users have a 30-day default retention window that can be reduced to zero, giving them more control over data minimization.
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