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# Minimal Data Retention

Minimal Data Retention (MDR) is available to all Amp users when Amp sends requests through model
provider connections managed by Amp and using Amp credits. It limits how long third-party model
providers retain prompts and responses. It does not mean that no data is ever retained.

Under MDR, model providers retain ordinary prompts and responses only as long as needed to return
a response. The following exceptions apply:

- Providers may retain safety and abuse monitoring data, including classifier results, trust and
  safety scores, and content flagged as potentially violating their usage policies. Each provider
  retains this data according to its abuse prevention and safety policies.
- Certain models or features may require longer retention. A provider may retain data for up to 30
  days when specified in its current documentation.
- Providers may store computational artifacts derived from prompts, such as key/value tensors or
  cached tokens, for a limited period. In this case, the provider does not persist the original
  prompt text after generating the response.
- Providers may retain data when required by law, a court order, or a regulatory requirement.

Neither Amp nor its model providers use customer data to train models. Model and feature
eligibility for MDR may change as providers change their services and data processing terms. Some
models and features are not eligible for MDR. Amp identifies these exceptions where you enable the
affected model or feature.

MDR only covers data handled by third-party model providers during inference (the process of
generating a model response). It does not control how Amp stores thread data. See
[Thread Data](/security#thread-data) for Amp's thread storage and deletion rules. If you use a
customer-managed model provider connection, such as your own API key, the data retention terms of
your provider account apply instead.

Enterprise customers can see
[Data Retention for Enterprise Subscriptions in the Terms of Service](/terms#minimal-data-retention)
for the full legal terms that apply to their plan.