Your Oura data stays saved when you cancel the membership, as long as you do not delete the account. Without a membership, though, the app shows only your three daily scores: Readiness, Activity and Sleep. You can still export all your data as CSV from the Membership Hub; the API needs a membership.
Oura’s pages checked: 22 October 2026. This page is general information, not legal advice.
What you still see without a membership
Oura’s membership page says: “Without an active membership, you’ll only be able to see your three daily Oura scores (Readiness, Activity, and Sleep)”, plus the ring’s battery, basic profile information, app settings and the Explore content. The detail behind them, such as the night’s HRV, heart-rate graphs and trends, is part of the membership.
After cancelling a monthly or annual plan, you keep access to the end of the period you paid for. A Gen2 ring needs no membership. Oura on the Web closed on 5 October 2026, so the app and the Membership Hub are the ways in (Oura Member Care).
Your data stays while the account exists
“If you cancel your membership, and do not delete your account, all of your Oura data and account information will remain securely saved,” Oura says, and once you re-enrol it is “immediately accessible again.” Its privacy policy adds that measurement data on sleep, readiness and activity “is stored only so long as your Oura account is active”. Oura states no period after which an unused account is deleted.
Deleting the account is different: it “will permanently delete your Oura account and all account data” (Oura Member Care, data protection). Export first if you plan to do it.
Export your data, with or without a membership
Log in to the Membership Hub, select Export data, then Request your data. “This option is available for all Oura users, with or without active membership.” It can take up to 10 days; Oura e-mails you when the files are ready. The files are CSV, and durations are in seconds, not hours and minutes (Oura Member Care, export).
The API is closed to you without a membership: “Without an active membership, you cannot access the Oura API, but you can still download your personal data through the Membership Hub.” How to export your HRV data explains what the files hold.
Oura works from finer data than the app shows
Oura’s own pages describe several levels of detail. Daytime heart rate is measured “for one full minute, every five minutes” (Oura Member Care, heart rate graph). Its developer documentation describes the night’s average heart rate as “based on 30-second samples”, and adds: “The app shows the average of aggregated 5-minute heart rate samples” (Oura API).
Three places, from top to bottom: on the wearable, on your phone and on the company’s servers. The servers hold three layers, each drawn with fewer ticks than the one before. For each layer, three routes are marked: the export button, a copy under Article 15 and a portable copy under Article 20. On the wearable, Readings waiting to sync: A ring or band keeps data until the phone collects it: up to 10 days on a RingConn Gen 3. No company holds it yet. Export button: Does not reach it. Copy: Does not reach it. Portable copy: Does not reach it. On your phone, Data kept only on the phone: Apple Health keeps its data on the iPhone, and end-to-end encrypted in iCloud. Export it from the phone: a company can copy only what it holds. Export button: Reaches it. Copy: Depends. Portable copy: Depends. On the company’s servers, Fine samples: What the company works from. Oura’s API describes sleep heart rate “based on 30-second samples”. Export button: Depends. Copy: Reaches it. Portable copy: Reaches it. On the company’s servers, What the app shows: Values worked out from the samples. Oura says its app shows “aggregated 5-minute” heart rate. Export button: Depends. Copy: Reaches it. Portable copy: Depends. On the company’s servers, Scores: A number a day worked out by the company: Readiness, Recovery, a sleep score. Export button: Depends. Copy: Reaches it. Portable copy: Does not reach it.
Under the GDPR, a copy of your data must hold all the personal data the company processes, not a summary, and “the use of self-service tools should never limit the scope of personal data received” (EDPB, Guidelines 01/2022). So the CSV export is a start, and a request can ask for the rest of what Oura holds, such as any 30-second data it keeps. Oura does not say how long it keeps that data, and a company owes only what it still has when you ask. Wearable data rights sets out the argument and where it stops.
Ask for a copy
Write to dataprotection@ouraring.com, the address Oura gives for data-protection rights in its privacy policy. Name the data you want (heart rate, HRV and sleep stages at the finest level Oura holds), the dates and a format such as CSV or JSON.
- In the EU and the UK, the company must answer within one month, extendable by two months where necessary because of the complexity or number of requests. Oura’s policy does not state its own deadline for these requests.
- In US states with privacy laws, Oura says: “We will respond to all validated requests within 45 days of receiving your request, unless we request an extension,” and you can make “a free request up to two times in any 12-month period.”
The data request letter builder puts these points into a letter. Wearable data rights covers deadlines in other countries and what to do if there is no answer.