“We only keep your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, after which it will be deleted or archived unless we are required to keep it to comply with our legal obligations...”
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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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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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