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# Maximum privacy

Privacy isn't a mode you switch on. It's how Kontinent is built. Requests are served from the EU, prompts are never retained, and you keep full data sovereignty **without compromising on model choice or performance.**

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><h4><i class="fa-shield-halved" style="color:$primary;">:shield-halved:</i></h4></td><td><strong>GDPR-compliant</strong></td><td>Built to meet the requirements of the GDPR (DSGVO) end to end.</td></tr><tr><td><h4><i class="fa-scale-balanced" style="color:$primary;">:scale-balanced:</i></h4></td><td><strong>EU AI Act ready</strong></td><td>Aligned with the obligations of the EU AI Act.</td></tr><tr><td><h4><i class="fa-earth-europe" style="color:$primary;">:earth-europe:</i></h4></td><td><strong>EU data sovereignty</strong></td><td>Requests are served by EU-resident providers, in the EU.</td></tr></tbody></table>

## Zero prompt retention

Zero prompt retention is a **design contract**, not a setting. Request and response **bodies are never persisted or logged** anywhere in the pipeline, enforced by an end-to-end test that fails CI if a prompt ever reaches the logs.

Only metadata survives a request:

* Token counts (prompt / completion / total)
* Latency and HTTP status
* Model id and computed cost

None of it contains your prompt or the model's output. Because of this, the gateway **cannot replay a prompt**: there is no server-side history of your inputs or outputs. See [Privacy & retention](/privacy/privacy.md).

## Sovereignty you can enforce

Every model declares a `sovereignty` tier, so you decide how strict your data residency needs to be, per request, per model.

| Tier        | Meaning                                                          |
| ----------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `strict`    | Served by an **EU-owned** provider.                              |
| `pragmatic` | Served from an **EU region** of a provider with a non-EU parent. |

{% hint style="info" %}
The tier is returned on every model from `GET /v1/models`, so you can require `strict` where the use case demands an EU-owned provider and allow `pragmatic` elsewhere. See [Models & sovereignty](/models-and-routing/models.md).
{% endhint %}

## No compromise

<table data-card-size="large" data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><h4><i class="fa-list-check" style="color:$primary;">:list-check:</i></h4></td><td><strong>Full model choice</strong></td><td>Sovereignty doesn't shrink the catalog. Pick the model you need, at the tier you require.</td></tr><tr><td><h4><i class="fa-bolt" style="color:$primary;">:bolt:</i></h4></td><td><strong>Full performance</strong></td><td>Residency constrains the pool, it does not pin you to one model. The smart router still classifies and routes among the models you allow. See <a href="/pages/QESs3zvtebNO6KUdpRpD">Price &#x26; performance</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table>


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