Data retention

You stay in control of your data. Vook keeps the audio and transcripts you submit through the API until you delete them, so you decide when they go.

What Vook keeps, and for how long

Data	How long it is kept
Working audio used during processing	Deleted automatically after 1 day.
Your audio and transcripts	Kept until you delete them.
Chats on a transcription	Kept as long as the transcription. Deleted with it.
The summary of a transcription	Kept as long as the transcription. Deleted with it.
Everything in a deleted account	Deleted within 30 days of the account deletion.
Everything in an inactive account	Deleted after two years without activity. You receive notices 30 days and 7 days before, followed by a 30-day grace period.

API transcripts and audio have no automatic expiry. If your own policy calls for one, delete transcriptions on your schedule with the endpoint below.

DELETE /api/v1/transcriptions/{id} deletes a transcription, its audio, and its chats.

curl -X DELETE "https://www.api.vook.ai/api/v1/transcriptions/$ID" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VOOK_API_KEY"

A successful delete returns 204. Deleting the same transcription again also returns 204, so a retry is safe.
If you hold the job id instead, DELETE /api/v1/transcription-jobs/{id} does the same.
While the job is still running, the request returns 409 with the code job_not_completed. Wait for the job to finish, then retry.
After the delete, reading the transcription, its transcript, its export, or its chats returns 404. The job itself stays readable with GET /api/v1/transcription-jobs/{id}.