> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.kontinent.ai/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.kontinent.ai/privacy/privacy.md).

# Privacy & retention

What Kontinent stores, and what it never stores.

Zero prompt retention is a **design contract**, not a setting.

## What is never stored

Request and response **bodies are never persisted or logged** anywhere in the pipeline. This is enforced by an end-to-end test that greps logs for a sentinel value, so a regression fails CI.

Because of this, the gateway **cannot replay a prompt**. Do not build anything that assumes it can. There is no server-side history of your inputs or model outputs.

## What is stored

Only metadata survives a request:

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

This metadata powers billing, usage analytics, and rate limiting. None of it contains your prompt or the model's response.

## Data residency

Requests are served by EU-resident providers. Each model's [`sovereignty` tier](/models-and-routing/models.md#sovereignty-tiers) tells you whether the provider is EU-owned (`strict`) or an EU region of a non-EU parent (`pragmatic`), so you can enforce the residency guarantee your use case requires.

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For the compliance framing (GDPR, the EU AI Act, and what sovereignty means in practice), see [Maximum privacy](/privacy/data-privacy.md).
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