This article is about our consumer products (e.g. Claude Free, Claude Pro). For our commercial products (e.g. Claude for Work, Anthropic API), see here.
Anthropic retains your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes and criteria outlined in our Privacy Policy.
Standard Retention Timeframe
You have control to delete conversations, which will be removed immediately from your conversation history and automatically deleted from our back-end within 30 days.
Usage Policy Violations
We retain inputs and outputs for up to 2 years and trust and safety classification scores for up to 7 years if you submit a prompt that is flagged by our trust and safety classifiers as violating our Usage Policy.
Feedback Data
Where you have opted in or provided some affirmative consent (e.g., submitting feedback or bug reports), we retain data associated with that submission for 10 years. Learn More.
In all cases, we may retain Prompts and Outputs as required by law or as necessary to combat violations of our Usage Policy. We may anonymize or de-identify your personal data for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may retain this information for longer without further notice to you.
For more information about our privacy practices, please see our Trust Center and Privacy Policy.