Zero Data Retention
Your data is never stored, logged, or retained beyond the immediate processing of your API request.
At API Ninjas, privacy is not an afterthought - it is a core design principle. We built our infrastructure from the ground up to ensure that your data is never stored, logged, or retained in any form beyond the immediate processing of your API request.
What We Mean by Zero Data Retention
When you make an API call to any of our endpoints, we process the request and return a response. The moment that response is delivered, all API-specific data is permanently gone from our servers. This includes:
- Input data - URL parameters, query strings, request body data, and any other information you send as part of your API request.
- Output data - The full response payload returned by the API, including all computed results and data.
There is no retention window. There is no "deleted within 30 days" policy. There is no temporary cache. Your data exists on our servers only for the duration it takes to process the request - typically a few hundred milliseconds - and then it is gone forever.
How This Works
Our API infrastructure is designed so that request data flows through our processing pipeline and is immediately discarded upon completion. We do not write API input or output data to any database, log file, object store, or any other persistent storage medium.
This is not a data deletion policy - it is a data non-retention architecture. The data simply never persists in the first place.
What We Do Track
The only data we retain from API calls is a simple count of the number of requests made to each API endpoint. This is strictly used for:
- Quota tracking - Counting your API usage against your plan limits.
- Analytics - Understanding aggregate usage patterns across our API catalog to improve our services.
These counts contain no information about the content of your requests or responses. We know that a call was made, but we have no record of what was sent or returned.
Why This Matters
Many API providers retain request logs for days, weeks, or even indefinitely. This creates risk - stored data can be breached, subpoenaed, or misused. By never storing your data in the first place, we eliminate this risk entirely.
Whether you are processing sensitive financial data, personal information, health records, or proprietary business data through our APIs, you can be confident that no trace of that data remains on our systems after your request completes.
Summary
- API input data (parameters, body) is never stored.
- API output data (responses) is never stored.
- Data exists on our servers only during processing (milliseconds).
- There is no retention period - data is gone the instant the request completes.
- We only track request counts per API for quota and analytics purposes.