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OpenAI Data Retention Policy

OpenAI's data retention policy, including the time period for which user data is retained after deletion or account removal.

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Jan 18, 2026
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What personal data does OpenAI store after account deletion and for how long?

OpenAI’s public documentation says most user chats, files and API inputs/outputs are removed from its systems within roughly 30 days after deletion or account removal, but multiple, documented excepti...

Jan 15, 2026
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What types of user data does OpenAI store from chat interactions and for how long?

OpenAI stores several categories of data from chat interactions—user-provided content (prompts and model outputs), log and technical metadata, and optional “memory” or uploaded files—and retention dep...

Jan 8, 2026

What data retention policies does OpenAI publish about training dataset usage and anonymization?

OpenAI publishes a layered set of data-retention and data-control policies that, by default, remove customer content from training workflows and keep most API chat and response data for short windows ...

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