# Mattermost

Mattermost is an open-core, self-hostable online chat platform that provides secure team messaging, file sharing, search, and integrations with third-party applications. It is designed as an internal chat solution for organizations and companies, positioning itself as an open-source alternative to Slack and Microsoft Teams.  
  
  
Note: at Cloud68.co we do NOT develop this software and all the names and trademarks of the software are owned by the entity behind the project.

# Data retention

On Mattermost, data retention unfortunately is only possible on the Enterprise and Enterprise Advanced Plans. Here is the source of the information [https://docs.mattermost.com/administration-guide/comply/data-retention-policy.html](https://docs.mattermost.com/administration-guide/comply/data-retention-policy.html "https://docs.mattermost.com/administration-guide/comply/data-retention-policy.html").