# Personal Tokens

**Personal Tokens** are a string of characters used to authenticate your user and access to certain interfaces and tools. You can create a long-lived authentication personal token in Azion to call [Azion APIs](https://api.azion.com/) or to execute commands in the [command-line interface (CLI)](/en/documentation/devtools/cli/).

While creating a personal token, you will have to provide:

- **Personal Token name**: a descriptive name you will recognize later.
- **Expires in**: date of expiration for the token. You can choose the token expiration date between *1*, *7*, *15*, *30*, *90 days*, *1 year*, or a *custom date*.
- **Personal Token description** (optional): description to help you remember why the token was created and/or what it was created for.

> **Tip**
>
> The Personal Token's expiration date should be chosen according to your project needs and duration. For use with APIs and CLI, for example, you can create a long-lived authentication token for practicality but you may have to be more careful and take extra security measures.

You can only see your token when you first create it. After confirming, your token *can no longer be seen or copied* and you will not be able to access it again. Treat your tokens like passwords and save them in a safe place right after you create them.

You can create as many personal tokens as you like and you can view them under the **Personal Tokens** option in the **Account Menu**, located in the top-right corner of Azion's interface. You cannot modify a token once it is created, but you will be able to see its *scope*, *last modified date*, and *expiration date*.