I’m considering using DeepSeek’s hosted API to help with internal development, but some prompts would include snippets from a private codebase. Before testing that workflow, I want to understand what happens to submitted prompts and responses after the request is finished.

Where do you look for current retention and data-use terms, and do you take extra precautions before sending internal source code to a hosted model? I’m interested in practical checks teams make, not assumptions based on how a local model works.