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"We retain your personal information where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so. In certain circumstances, we will retain your information for legal reasons after our contractual relationship has ended. The specific retention periods depend on the nature of the information and why it is collected and processed and the nature of the legal requirement."

No concrete retention timelines are given for most data types. Retention is open-ended based on vague 'ongoing legitimate business need' and broad legal justifications, making it effectively indefinite.

"We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will publish an updated version and effective date on this page, unless another type of notice is required by applicable law. If you use the Service after any changes to the Privacy Policy have been posted, all of the changes made will apply to your use of the Service."

xAI can change the privacy policy at any time and treats continued use of the service as acceptance of all changes, with no requirement for explicit user consent.

"To our contracted service providers: To assist in providing the Service to you or performing business operations, we provide your personal information to service providers including providers of hosting, cloud, analytics, content delivery, support and safety monitoring, payment and transaction, and other technology services. To our related companies: To our related companies to the extent such sharing is necessary to fulfill a request you have submitted via our Service or for customer management, customer support, technical operations, or the purposes described above."

Personal information is shared with a broad range of service providers and related companies (which could include X/Twitter) for loosely defined purposes including analytics and business operations.

"We may determine the general area from which your device accesses our Services based on information like its IP address. Also, you may choose to provide more precise location information, such as your address, your device's GPS location, or location information from third-party services that you use. How we may disclose it: To our contracted service providers; in connection with business transfers, for legal purposes; to our related companies; and to third-parties with which you interact or share information."

xAI collects IP-based geolocation by default and can collect precise GPS location. This location data may be shared with service providers, related companies, and third parties.

"If you use your existing X credentials to log into an xAI mobile app or website, you may choose to direct X to share the following information with us: your X public profile (including profile image), X username, numeric X ID, your date of birth, whether you are subscribed to X Premium, and your Grok on X conversation history. The Service uses public posts shared on X, engagement data such as number of followers, and number of views, likes, reposts, shares, and replies and internet search results."

xAI links user identity and activity across X (Twitter) and its own services, importing X profiles, conversation history, and engagement data to build a unified view of users.

"If you choose to delete any or all of your conversations or if you choose to delete your account, we will delete the data within 30 days unless it is necessary to retain the data for legal, compliance, or safety purposes."

Account deletion takes up to 30 days, and xAI reserves the right to retain data beyond that period for broadly defined legal, compliance, or safety reasons, with no clear limit on how long such retention may last.