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# Configure your Data Settings

#### What are the different options?

By default, transcripts expire after 30 days and sessions are never deleted. 

However, you can customise when Scribe should expire your transcripts and when sessions are deleted. The available timeframes are, after: 30 days, 90 days, 1 year, or never.

{% hint style="info" %}
**Note**: \
\- Audio data is expired from our systems after 7 days — this cannot be reconfigured.\
\- If no custom settings are made, the default settings will continue to be in place. 
{% endhint %}

#### How do I set it up?

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1. Click on your `Name` > `Settings`
2. Choose your preferred timeframes
3. Click `Save` to activate your settings

#### When do my new settings take effect?

Your new settings take effect **at midnight on the day you save them**.&#x20;

For example, if you set sessions to delete after 30 days, any session older than 30 days will be removed starting that night.

#### What happens when my data is deleted?

Once expired or deleted, data cannot be restored — so make sure your settings match your needs!

* **When transcripts are expired:** You will no longer be able to use Ask Scribe to ask new questions or generate new summaries. Your chat history and existing summaries will remain available.&#x20;
* **When sessions are deleted:** This also deletes the summaries, transcripts, and chat histories for the sessions.


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