ElevenLabs retains personal information for the duration necessary to fulfill stated collection purposes and to comply with legal, accounting, and reporting obligations, without specifying fixed retention periods for individual data categories.
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The absence of specific retention periods for individual data categories, particularly voice recordings and voice models, creates potential tension with GDPR's data minimization and storage limitation principles, which require that retention periods be specified or determinable.
Interpretive note: Whether the generic retention standard satisfies GDPR Article 5(1)(e)'s requirement for specifiable retention periods depends on whether ElevenLabs maintains and discloses category-specific retention schedules elsewhere.
Simplified the retention policy to focus on fulfilling collection purposes and legal/accounting/reporting requirements, removing specific references to providing services, resolving disputes, and enforcing agreements.
View full change record →Under this clause, ElevenLabs retains personal data, including voice recordings and voice models, for unspecified durations tied to operational necessity and legal obligations. Users seeking deletion of their data may submit requests as described in the individual rights provisions.
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"We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.— Excerpt from ElevenLabs's ElevenLabs Privacy Policy
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages GDPR Article 5(1)(e), which requires that personal data be kept in a form that permits identification of data subjects for no longer than necessary and that retention periods be specifiable. CCPA does not prescribe specific retention periods but requires disclosure of retention practices. State AG enforcement under CCPA includes review of retention disclosures. (2) GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. Generic retention language tied to 'necessity' without category-specific periods creates potential non-conformance with GDPR's storage limitation principle, particularly for sensitive data categories such as voice recordings. GDPR records of processing activities must document retention periods. (3) JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU/EEA and UK users are most directly affected given GDPR's storage limitation requirements. California's CPRA requires businesses to disclose retention periods or the criteria used to determine them for each category of personal information collected. (4) CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Business customers should assess whether ElevenLabs' data retention practices are consistent with their own obligations to end users and request category-specific retention schedules for inclusion in Data Processing Agreements. (5) COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Compliance teams should request ElevenLabs' internal data retention schedule specifying periods for each category of personal data, including voice recordings, voice models, usage data, and payment data. GDPR records of processing activities should reflect these periods. CPRA retention disclosure requirements should be assessed against the current policy language.
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The absence of specific retention periods for individual data categories, particularly voice recordings and voice models, creates potential tension with GDPR's data minimization and storage limitation principles, which require that retention periods be specified or determinable.
Under this clause, ElevenLabs retains personal data, including voice recordings and voice models, for unspecified durations tied to operational necessity and legal obligations. Users seeking deletion of their data may submit requests as described in the individual rights provisions.
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