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The deletion obligation is subject to broad legal carve-outs, meaning personal data may be retained beyond the standard retention period for a range of legal and regulatory reasons.
Users' personal data will be deleted or anonymised in line with eBay's policy, but that timeline may be extended where law obliges or permits longer retention.
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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 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...
At the end of the retention period, personal information will be deleted, destroyed, or deidentified.
"we will delete your personal data in accordance with our data retention and deletion policy or take steps to properly render the data anonymous, unless we are legally obliged or permitted to keep your personal data longer (e.g. for legal compliance, tax, accounting or auditing purposes...)Excerpt from eBay's Privacy Notice
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The deletion obligation is subject to broad legal carve-outs, meaning personal data may be retained beyond the standard retention period for a range of legal and regulatory reasons.
Users' personal data will be deleted or anonymised in line with eBay's policy, but that timeline may be extended where law obliges or permits longer retention.
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