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The provision operationalizes Checkout.com's compliance obligations under data protection and financial services regulations, which typically mandate multi-year retention of transaction records for audit, dispute resolution, and regulatory reporting. The indefinite retention of anonymized analytical data enables the entity to maintain historical performance metrics and trend analysis without ongoing retention justifications.
Users' personal and transactional data will be retained according to the specified timelines tied to legal requirements and business purposes, with deletion or anonymization occurring upon expiration of those retention periods. Anonymized data derived from user activity may be retained without time limitation for analytical use.
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We keep information as long as we need it to provide our products and services and fulfil the purposes described in this policy. This is a case-by-case determination that depends on things like the nature of the information, why it is collected and processed, relevant legal or operational retention ...
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"We retain personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, including to satisfy legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting obligations. For payment transaction data, we may be required to retain records for up to seven years or longer where required by applicable law. Where personal data is no longer required, we will securely delete or anonymise it. We may retain data in anonymised form for analytical purposes without time limit.— Excerpt from Checkout.com's Checkout.com Privacy
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The provision operationalizes Checkout.com's compliance obligations under data protection and financial services regulations, which typically mandate multi-year retention of transaction records for audit, dispute resolution, and regulatory reporting. The indefinite retention of anonymized analytical data enables the entity to maintain historical performance metrics and trend analysis without ongoing retention justifications.
Users' personal and transactional data will be retained according to the specified timelines tied to legal requirements and business purposes, with deletion or anonymization occurring upon expiration of those retention periods. Anonymized data derived from user activity may be retained without time limitation for analytical use.
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