# Data Privacy

Please refer to the [Usage and Limitations](/mlaccelerator/automlassistant/usage-and-limitations.md) section before using AutoML assistant. A license is required to use AutoML Assistant. 

## Data Privacy

AutoML Assistant uses your conversation history as context to guide analysis and model development. This conversation data is stored only within your DNAnexus project, where it is protected under the same security, access controls, and compliance standards as all other project data.

Importantly, **DNAnexus does NOT use your conversation data for training, fine-tuning, or improving any AI models.** The data never leaves your secure project environment, ensuring full customer ownership and privacy at all times.

To delete any conversation from the AutoML Assistant UI or completely remove conversation data from your project, please follow the below instructions:

### Delete a Conversations from AutoML Assistant UI

To delete a specific conversation that you created from the Conversations sidebar, hover over the conversation and click the delete button as below.

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### Completely Remove Conversation and Cache Data

If you wish to manually clear your history, logs, or cached indices, you must access your DNAnexus project and navigate to the /automl root folder.

| Deleting these files is permanent. Ensure you have backed up any important generated artifacts before proceeding. |
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#### 1. User Conversation History & Artifacts

* Description: Contains the actual dialogue chunks, generated files (CSVs, plots), execution plans, and session-specific logs.
* DNAnexus Path: /automl/users/user-\[id]/conversations/
* Impact of Removal: Removes all chat history and any files generated during those sessions. The GUI will appear empty for that specific user.

#### 2. User Metadata & Settings

* Description: Includes the conversations.record (which links the user to their history) and settings.record (user preferences).
* DNAnexus Path: /automl/users/user-\[id]/
* Impact of Removal: \* Deleting the .record files will cause conversations to disappear from the GUI sidebar even if the conversation folders still exist.
* Deleting the entire /user-\[id] folder resets the user's environment to a "first-time use" state.

#### 3. Thinking & System Logs

* Description: Detailed backend logs (log.txt) and execution plans (plans.record) stored within each conversation folder.
* DNAnexus Path:\
  /automl/users/user-\[id]/conversations/\[conversation\_id\_]/log.txt
* Impact of Removal: No impact on core chatbot functions; primarily used for debugging and performance analysis.

#### 4. Data Index & Strands (Cache)

* Description: Cached vector indices (Weaviate) and lexical metadata (SurrealDB) for datasets and cohorts. These allow the AI to "remember" data structure without re-processing.
* DNAnexus Path: /automl/cache/
* Impact of Removal: No impact on core functionality, but the chatbot will experience a performance delay the next time these datasets/cohorts are queried as it will need to re-index the data.


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