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In limited circumstances, we may retain certain information for purposes including safety, security, fraud prevention, and compliance with our legal obligations.
We may need to keep your data for longer than our specified retention periods to honor your requests, including to continue keeping you opted out of marketing emails, or to comply with legal, regulatory, accounting...
Ancestry also retains certain information as reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations (including law enforcement requests), resolve disputes, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse, as well as to comply with tax, payment industry, securities...
"We retain Service Data when it is necessary to protect against fraudulent attempts to gain access to user accounts, or to investigate violations of applicable Cloud Services agreements. Usually, the Service Data retained...would include device identifiers, identifiers from cookies or tokens, and IP addresses...Excerpt from Google Cloud's Privacy
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The clause states: “We retain Service Data when it is necessary to protect against fraudulent attempts to gain access to user accounts, or to investigate violations of applicable Cloud Services agreements. Usually, the Service Data retained...would include device identifiers, identifiers from cookies or tokens, and IP addresses...”
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