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Customer will be permitted to export Customer Data via the Services; provided, that Customer acknowledges and agrees that such ability to export may be limited by the applicable Services plan in effect and the data retention settings enabled by Customer.
if you're a Customer, we may not immediately delete your information when your trial expires or you cancel all your paid Services. Instead, we keep your information for a reasonable period of time, so it will be there for you if you come back.
We keep some data until you delete your Google Account, such as information about how often you use Gemini Apps.
"Customer instructs Google to delete all remaining Customer Personal Data (including existing copies) from Google's systems at the end of the Term in accordance with applicable law... within a maximum period of 180 days, unless applicable laws require storage.Excerpt from Google Ads's Data Processing Terms
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The clause states: “Customer instructs Google to delete all remaining Customer Personal Data (including existing copies) from Google's systems at the end of the Term in accordance with applicable law... within a maximum period of 180 days, unless applicable laws require storage.”
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