Security

Data Retention

We retain data by default for the purpose of improving our services, debugging issues, and ensuring the security of our systems. For enterprise customers, we provide a zero retention option aka the “full privacy mode” across certain product. With zero retention mode, the data in request and response is immediately deleted after the request is completed.

Product	Type	Default Retention	Eligible for Zero Retention
Text to Speech	Text Input	Enabled	Yes
	Audio Output	Enabled	Yes
Voice Changer	Audio Input	Enabled	Yes
	Audio Output	Enabled	Yes
Instant Voice Cloning	Audio Samples	Enabled	No
Professional Voice Cloning	Audio Samples	Enabled	No
Dubbing	Audio/Video Input	Enabled	No
	Audio Output	Enabled	No
Projects	Text Input	Enabled	No
	Audio Output	Enabled	No
Conv AI	All Input and Output	Enabled	No

Zero Retention

Only enterprise customers can use zero retention (full privacy mode).

Zero retention mode provides an additional level of security and peace of mind for especially sensitive workflows with stringent compliance requirements such as Healthcare or Banking.

• It applies only for API requests.
• Text to Speech: this covers the Text-to-Speech (TTS) API, including all endpoints beginning with /v1/text-to-speech/ and the TTS websocket connection.
• Voice changer: this covers the Voice Changer API, including all endpoints starting with /v1/speech-to-speech/.

Zero retention mode can be used by sending enable_logging=false with the product which supports it.

For example, in Text to Speech API, you can prevent logging your data by setting the query parameter enable_logging to False like this:

Python

from elevenlabs import ElevenLabs

client = ElevenLabs(
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",
)

response = client.text_to_speech.convert(
    voice_id=voice_id,
    output_format="mp3_22050_32",
    text=text,
    model_id="eleven_turbo_v2",
    enable_logging=False
)

In order to verify whether the zero retention mode is enabled, you can check the history of the request. If the request is not present in the history, it means the zero retention mode is enabled.

Therefore, this also means that it’s much more difficult to debug issues with zero retention mode enabled. So we can only provide limited support in this case.

If you need to be HIPAA compliant and have signed a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with ElevenLabs, please contact us to complete the backend configuration for zero retention mode.

Data Backup

For any data that is retained, we take regular backups to ensure that data is not lost in case of any unexpected events. Therefore, after data deletion, data is retained for up to 30 days due to backups.

Account Deletion

All data is deleted from our systems permanently when you delete your account. This includes all data associated with your account, such as API keys, request history, and any other data stored in your account.