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The clause defines the retention standard as tied to business necessity and legal compliance rather than specifying fixed retention periods, meaning data persistence duration depends on the company's assessment of ongoing legitimate needs.
Interpretive note: The policy uses criteria-based rather than period-specific retention language, making it difficult to assess compliance with GDPR storage limitation without access to Atlassian's internal retention schedules.
Users' personal information remains retained by Atlassian for the duration that the company determines it has legitimate business purposes for retention, which includes service delivery and regulatory compliance obligations.
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"We retain personal information we collect from you where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so (for example, to provide you with a service you have requested or to comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements).— Excerpt from Atlassian's Atlassian Privacy Policy
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The clause defines the retention standard as tied to business necessity and legal compliance rather than specifying fixed retention periods, meaning data persistence duration depends on the company's assessment of ongoing legitimate needs.
Users' personal information remains retained by Atlassian for the duration that the company determines it has legitimate business purposes for retention, which includes service delivery and regulatory compliance obligations.
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