Privacy Policy

Anthropic · agreement dated September 10, 2026 · Official agreement

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Retention & Deletion · Company practice

Integrations may keep access to Third-Party Services until the user disables them

Some integrations or features may allow Claude to access Third-Party Services on an ongoing basis until the user disables the feature or disconnects the integration in the settings.

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Some integrations or features may allow Claude to access Third-Party Services on an ongoing basis until you disable the feature or disconnect the integration in your settings.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Access ends when the user disables the feature or disconnects the integration.

Retention & Deletion · User right or choice

Right to deletion, plus immediate conversation deletion with 30-day back-end removal

Users have a right to request deletion of personal data collected from them when they use the Services, subject to exceptions. Separately, users can delete individual conversations, which are removed immediately from conversation history and automatically deleted from the back end within 30 days.

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Deletion: the right to request that we delete personal data collected from you when you use our Services, subject to certain exceptions.
You also are able to delete individual conversations, which will be removed immediately from your conversation history and automatically deleted from our back-end within 30 days.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • The deletion right is subject to exceptions that this item does not list.
  • Conversation deletion is a separate tool with its own timing, not the same as a rights request.

Not stated here

  • The retention article linked for more detail is a separate page and its text is not supplied here, so the full retention schedule is not stated.
  • The policy does not say what happens to copies already used for training when a conversation is deleted.

Retention & Deletion · Company practice

Data is kept as long as reasonably necessary for the Policy's purposes and criteria

Anthropic retains personal data for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes and criteria outlined in the Policy, which it says are explained further in its privacy center.

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Anthropic retains your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes and criteria outlined in this Privacy Policy and explained further in our privacy center

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Retention is tied to purposes and criteria rather than to fixed periods in this paragraph.

Not stated here

  • The privacy center article with the retention schedule is separately linked and not supplied here, so the periods for each data type are not stated.

Retention & Deletion · Company practice

Data no longer required is destroyed, deleted, erased or anonymized with service providers

When collected personal data is no longer required, Anthropic and its service providers carry out the procedures needed to destroy, delete, erase or convert it into an anonymous form, as permitted or required by applicable law.

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When the personal data collected is no longer required by us, we and our service providers will perform the necessary procedures for destroying, deleting, erasing, or converting it into an anonymous form as permitted or required under applicable laws.

Not stated here

  • The policy does not say how long these procedures take or how their completion is verified.