Backfrom DeepSeek’s own policies · verified 2026-10-14
DeepSeek: data residency & retention
Headquarters
🇨🇳 China (China)
Where inference runs
China
The privacy policy states personal data is collected, processed, and stored in the People's Republic of China, and all API data is processed and stored in mainland China.
Region pinning
No
No region selection, non-China hosting option, or residency commitment appears in the privacy policy, platform terms, or API docs.
Prompt retention
Retained
Prompts are retained as long as necessary to provide services and for interests including service improvement. There is no fixed window; context caching on disk is on by default with no documented off switch.
Trains on API data
Yes, by default
The privacy policy allows using prompts to train models, with opt-out only by emailing privacy@deepseek.com; the Open Platform terms have no training clause and defer personal data to that policy, which excludes data of end users of apps built on the API.
Zero data retention
Not offered
No zero-data-retention option exists in any official DeepSeek document.
Compiled from DeepSeek’s published privacy policy, terms, and documentation on 2026-10-14. “Not disclosed” means DeepSeek publishes nothing on the point. Policies change without notice, so verify against the sources above before relying on this for compliance decisions.