> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://elephas.app/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What Happens to Your Data After You Cancel

> After you cancel Elephas, your documents, Brains and chats stay on your computer. Learn what keeps working, what happens to Personal Sync, and how to come back.

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After you cancel, your documents stay on your computer. Indexing happens on your computer. Always. Your Brains, the search index and your chats are kept in an encrypted database on your computer, so they don't depend on your plan.

## Before you start

* Your plan keeps working until the end of the period you paid for. Everything below applies after that date.

## What stays and what pauses

| Stays on your computer and keeps working | Pauses until you choose a plan |
| - | - |
| Your Brains, documents and chat history | Answers from Elephas AI |
| Adding documents and local indexing | Answers with your own API key or Local AI |
| Search and opening cited sources | Personal Sync |
| Your saved API key and downloaded models | |

Signing out does not delete anything either. Elephas confirms: **Signed out. Nothing on this device was deleted, and Team content is locked until you sign in again.**

## How it works

### Personal Sync

If you used Personal Sync on Professional, each synced computer keeps its own full local copy of your Brains. Sync stops sending new changes once your plan ends. The copy on the sync service is end-to-end encrypted, so Elephas can't read it. See [sync encryption](/docs/privacy-and-security/sync-encryption).

### Team workspaces

A Team workspace follows the Team's plan, not yours. Cancelling your Personal plan does not affect Teams you belong to. See [cancel a Team subscription](/docs/plans-and-billing/cancel-team-subscription).

### Coming back later

Open **Settings › Plan & Billing**, sign in with the same account, and choose a plan. Your Brains, chats and settings are exactly as you left them. If you used Sync, turn it on again from **Settings › Sync**.

### Removing your data

Cancelling does not delete your data. To remove it from your computer, or to request deletion of your account, see [delete your data and account](/docs/privacy-and-security/delete-your-data-and-account). To keep a copy elsewhere first, see [export your data](/docs/privacy-and-security/export-your-data).

## Troubleshooting

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="Sync shows Your plan needs attention">
    Sync needs a paid Professional plan. Your local copy on this computer is not affected. Choose a plan to resume, or [turn off Sync](/docs/sync-and-devices/turn-off-sync).
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="My Brains are missing after I came back">
    Check that you are on the same computer and data folder you used before. Plans don't hold your documents, your computer does. See [restore your plan](/docs/plans-and-billing/restore-your-plan).
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## Related articles

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Cancel your subscription" href="/docs/plans-and-billing/cancel-subscription" />

  <Card title="When your plan ends" href="/docs/plans-and-billing/when-your-plan-ends" />

  <Card title="Where your data is stored" href="/docs/privacy-and-security/where-your-data-is-stored" />

  <Card title="Delete your data and account" href="/docs/privacy-and-security/delete-your-data-and-account" />
</CardGroup>


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