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# How Klarity protects your data

Security and privacy are at the heart of Klarity: your sessions and your clients' sessions are among the most sensitive data there is. This article recaps, without jargon, what Klarity puts in place to protect them.

# Understanding data protection in Klarity

Klarity stores a coaching memory for you: client records, transcripts, summaries, enrichment notes. This data serves only **your practice** — it is never resold, shared, or used for any other purpose. Protection rests on three pillars: limiting what is kept, securing access, and recording only with the consent of the person being coached.

# The key guarantees

- **Audio is deleted quickly** — a session's audio recording is erased **within 24 hours of the summary being generated**. Only the text (transcript) and the summary are kept.
- **Data for your exclusive use** — your sessions, summaries and notes belong to you and serve only your coaching memory.
- **Built-in consent** — no session capture is possible without the prior agreement of the person being coached, collected via the Klarity consent form.
- **Encrypted connections** — the exchanges between your browser and Klarity are encrypted (HTTPS).
- **Protected sessions** — your login session is secured against theft, and changing your password automatically signs out your other open sessions.
- **Controlled retention periods** — each type of data has a defined duration, compliant with the GDPR (see the **Data retention** section).

# On the client side

Your clients benefit from a clear framework: a standardized, legally validated consent text, and the ability to **withdraw their agreement at any time**. As long as a client has not consented, none of their sessions are recorded.

| 💡 **Tip:** find the details of the data kept and its retention periods in **Settings › Privacy & GDPR**, section **Data retention**.

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