Where your data goes

The same prompt takes a different trip depending which route it leaves through.

Same words. Three very different journeys once they leave your screen.

Follow the trail

Four stops worth asking about

Transit—

Retention—

Human review—

Training use—

Durability note

The exact terms change. The questions don't.

Every vendor writes this differently, and rewrites it often — naming one here would be stale within months. Ask any vendor, for any tier, these three things instead:

1 — Retained?Is my input and output stored after the request finishes, or discarded?

2 — For how long?Days? Indefinitely? Can I set or shorten that window myself?

3 — Trained on?Does this tier feed back into training future models, by default or by choice?

So what

The route you send a prompt through decides its whole afterlife — ask, don't assume.