“If your Account is deleted or terminated, we will retain your Personal Data in accordance with our Privacy Policy and only as necessary for trust and safety, legal compliance, or other legitimate purposes.”
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Account deletion or termination does not result in immediate erasure of personal data; Bluesky retains it for defined purposes under its Privacy Policy.
Deleting or having your account terminated does not immediately eliminate your personal data from Bluesky's systems; Bluesky retains it for trust and safety, legal compliance, or other legitimate purposes as specified in its Privacy Policy.
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We will promptly destroy personal information at the end of the retention period, as described above. When we destroy personal information, we do so in a way that prevents that information from being restored or reconstructed.
We may continue to retain some information even after you delete your account if we are required to do so in order to comply with applicable laws.
After you submit a request to delete your account, we initiate a deletion process to safely and completely remove your data from our servers or retain it only in anonymized form.
"If your Account is deleted or terminated, we will retain your Personal Data in accordance with our Privacy Policy and only as necessary for trust and safety, legal compliance, or other legitimate purposes.Excerpt from Bluesky's Terms of Service
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Account deletion or termination does not result in immediate erasure of personal data; Bluesky retains it for defined purposes under its Privacy Policy.
Deleting or having your account terminated does not immediately eliminate your personal data from Bluesky's systems; Bluesky retains it for trust and safety, legal compliance, or other legitimate purposes as specified in its Privacy Policy.
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