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This limits how long Datadog may hold personal information, meaning data should not be stored indefinitely beyond its original collection purpose.
Interpretive note: The excerpt contains an additional independent proposition—that retention beyond the necessary period is permitted where required to comply with legal obligations—which was not stated in the canonical claim and is recorded here.
Personal information Datadog holds about you will be deleted or archived once it is no longer necessary for the purposes it was collected for.
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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...
We generally retain your personal information for only as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements...
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This limits how long Datadog may hold personal information, meaning data should not be stored indefinitely beyond its original collection purpose.
Personal information Datadog holds about you will be deleted or archived once it is no longer necessary for the purposes it was collected for.
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