Tagged “data”
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Where a deleted message goes
Delete can mean hidden from your view, excluded from the next request, or erased from storage. Those are three separate features, built separately.
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What happens to your messages
Your conversation is rows in someone else's database. Retention, human review, training use and deletion are all answered by documents you can read.
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When the service shuts down
Shutdowns follow a recognisable sequence, and every step is a company decision made under pressure. What you keep afterwards is what you took earlier.
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What an export actually contains
An export is a file whose shape the operator chose. It may hold your messages, a subset of them, or a summary, and it is worth checking which.
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What the app collects besides your messages
The conversation is one category among several. Identifiers, device data, session telemetry and purchase events are collected too, and disclosed apart.
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Who owns what you wrote
You usually keep ownership of your messages and grant a broad licence over them. The licence is the operative part, and it often outlives your account.
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Reading the terms of service for the parts that bind
Four clauses decide what you can rely on: unilateral amendment, termination, the licence you grant, and dispute resolution. The rest is scaffolding.