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The retention period is not fixed and extends beyond active use of the Services if law or legitimate business or commercial purposes require it, meaning personal information may be held indefinitely under those grounds.
Interpretive note: The excerpt uses an ellipsis, suggesting text may have been omitted between the 'required by law' and 'legitimate business or commercial purposes' grounds. The full scope of retention bases may be broader than what is captured here.
Your personal information may be retained after you stop using the Services if law or legitimate business or commercial purposes require it.
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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.
we will only retain your personal information for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, accounting, or reporting requirements...
If there is any data that we are unable, for technical reasons, to delete entirely from our systems, we will implement appropriate measures to prevent any further use of such data.
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The retention period is not fixed and extends beyond active use of the Services if law or legitimate business or commercial purposes require it, meaning personal information may be held indefinitely under those grounds.
Your personal information may be retained after you stop using the Services if law or legitimate business or commercial purposes require it.
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