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The qualifier 'usually' means retention is not guaranteed to be strictly limited, and 'legitimate business interests' provides GOAT a broad secondary basis for extended retention beyond the original collection purpose.
Interpretive note: The word 'usually' is a meaningful qualifier preserved in the canonical claim. 'Legitimate business interests' is left undefined in the excerpt and could allow broad retention windows, but no further inference is drawn.
Personal information collected about you is subject to a retention standard that is qualified by 'usually' and by GOAT's own legitimate business interests, meaning retention duration is not absolute.
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We retain Personal Information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this General Privacy Policy, including to provide Websites, maintain business operations...
We will store your personal data only for as long as it is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
Your personal information will be retained only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected or as required by Nigerian law. When we destroy your personal information, we do so in a way that prevents that information from being restored or reconstructed.
"We will usually store the personal information we collect about you for no longer than necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, and in accordance with our legitimate business interests and applicable law.Excerpt from GOAT's Privacy Policy
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The qualifier 'usually' means retention is not guaranteed to be strictly limited, and 'legitimate business interests' provides GOAT a broad secondary basis for extended retention beyond the original collection purpose.
Personal information collected about you is subject to a retention standard that is qualified by 'usually' and by GOAT's own legitimate business interests, meaning retention duration is not absolute.
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