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Retention duration is tied to external references (Section 3 business purposes) and unspecified legal obligations, meaning users cannot determine a fixed deletion timeline from this clause alone.
Cloudflare may retain your personal information indefinitely if business purposes or legal obligations continue to apply.
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We keep your personal information where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so (for example, to provide you with our Services or to comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements).
We retain some data for longer when necessary for legitimate business or legal purposes, such as security, fraud and abuse prevention, or financial record-keeping.
We collect and keep personal data only as needed or allowed for the purposes set out in this Statement, based on the reason we collected the personal data in the first instance and what is permitted under the laws that apply to the processing.
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Retention duration is tied to external references (Section 3 business purposes) and unspecified legal obligations, meaning users cannot determine a fixed deletion timeline from this clause alone.
Cloudflare may retain your personal information indefinitely if business purposes or legal obligations continue to apply.
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