“We retain your personal information for no longer than is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the information was collected or as otherwise permitted or pursuant to legal obligations...”
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This clause establishes a necessity ceiling on retention, but the legal-obligations carve-out means Grindr may retain data beyond the original collection purpose when law permits or requires it.
The reader's personal information is not retained beyond what is necessary for its original purposes, unless a legal obligation or legal permission applies.
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We will retain your Data for as long as necessary: (i) to achieve the purposes as set out in this Policy; (ii) as required by applicable laws and regulations, including any mandated retention periods...
We will promptly destroy personal information at the end of the retention period, as described above. When we destroy personal information, we do so in a way that prevents that information from being restored or reconstructed.
We will only retain your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was originally collected.
"We retain your personal information for no longer than is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the information was collected or as otherwise permitted or pursuant to legal obligations...Excerpt from Grindr's Privacy Policy
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This clause establishes a necessity ceiling on retention, but the legal-obligations carve-out means Grindr may retain data beyond the original collection purpose when law permits or requires it.
The reader's personal information is not retained beyond what is necessary for its original purposes, unless a legal obligation or legal permission applies.
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