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The clause establishes a legal-compliance exception to user deletion rights, meaning users cannot compel deletion of transaction data that Apple App Store is required by law to retain.
Interpretive note: The evidence span is a conditional clause fragment; it establishes the condition for denial but the excerpt does not include the explicit consequence language (i.e., that the deletion request will be refused). The denial consequence is strongly implied by the conditional structure but is not stated in the quoted text verbatim.
Users who request deletion of their transaction data may be denied if Apple App Store is legally obligated to retain that record to comply with law.
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"if you ask us to delete your transaction data and Apple is legally obligated to keep a record of that transaction to comply with lawExcerpt from Apple App Store's Apple Privacy Policy
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The clause establishes a legal-compliance exception to user deletion rights, meaning users cannot compel deletion of transaction data that Apple App Store is required by law to retain.
Users who request deletion of their transaction data may be denied if Apple App Store is legally obligated to retain that record to comply with law.
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