“We retain your information as needed to provide our Services, comply with legal obligations, or protect our or others' interests... whether we are required to hold the information to comply with our legal...”
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Retention is tied to multiple independent bases, meaning data may be kept beyond the life of the user relationship if legal obligations or protective interests require it.
Interpretive note: The excerpt contains an additional phrase about whether Coinbase is required to hold information to comply with legal obligations, which appears to elaborate on the legal compliance basis. It was recorded in omitted_material rather than merged into the canonical claim.
Your information may be retained by Coinbase even after you stop using its Services, as long as a legal obligation or protective interest justifies retention.
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We will retain your Data for as long as necessary: (i) to achieve the purposes as set out in this Policy; (ii) as required by applicable laws and regulations, including any mandated retention periods...
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.
"We retain your information as needed to provide our Services, comply with legal obligations, or protect our or others' interests... whether we are required to hold the information to comply with our legal...Excerpt from Coinbase's Privacy Policy
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Retention is tied to multiple independent bases, meaning data may be kept beyond the life of the user relationship if legal obligations or protective interests require it.
Your information may be retained by Coinbase even after you stop using its Services, as long as a legal obligation or protective interest justifies retention.
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