Fastly retains personal data for the duration of the business relationship plus seven years, with exceptions permitting longer retention for audits, legal obligations, dispute resolution, and agreement enforcement.
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This provision establishes a baseline seven-year post-relationship retention window and enumerates open-ended exceptions that may extend retention further, creating ongoing data subject rights obligations that persist well after account closure.
Under this clause, personal data submitted during a business relationship with Fastly remains retained for at least seven years following the relationship's end, subject to additional exceptions for legal and operational purposes. Individuals seeking deletion of their data should be aware that account closure does not result in immediate data removal.
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Compare across platforms →"We retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you our services or perform our contractual obligations, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. The retention period shall not exceed the duration of our business relationship with you plus (7) years unless we have a legitimate business interest need to retain the information for a longer period, which include maintaining a record of your preferences, securing the integrity of databases, conducting audits, complying with our legal and contractual obligations, resolving disputes, and enforcing our agreements.Excerpt from Fastly's Privacy Policy
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This provision establishes a baseline seven-year post-relationship retention window and enumerates open-ended exceptions that may extend retention further, creating ongoing data subject rights obligations that persist well after account closure.
Under this clause, personal data submitted during a business relationship with Fastly remains retained for at least seven years following the relationship's end, subject to additional exceptions for legal and operational purposes. Individuals seeking deletion of their data should be aware that account closure does not result in immediate data removal.
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