“To protect the safety and security of our members, we implement a safety retention window of three months following account closure or up to two years following an account ban.”
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Account closure does not immediately end Hinge's retention of user data; the safety retention window means data persists for a defined period even after a user has left the platform, and longer still if the account was banned.
If you close your Hinge account, your data will be retained for at least three months; if your account was banned, Hinge may retain your data for up to two years.
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We may retain some of your Data even after you cease to use our Services, for instance if the Data is necessary to meet our legal obligations, such as tax and accounting requirements.
Where specific retention periods are required by law, we comply with those timeframes; otherwise, we apply the criteria above to determine how long to retain the information.
If the Services are made available to you through an organization (e.g., your employer), we retain your information as long as required by the administrator of your account.
"To protect the safety and security of our members, we implement a safety retention window of three months following account closure or up to two years following an account ban.Excerpt from Hinge's Privacy Policy
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Account closure does not immediately end Hinge's retention of user data; the safety retention window means data persists for a defined period even after a user has left the platform, and longer still if the account was banned.
If you close your Hinge account, your data will be retained for at least three months; if your account was banned, Hinge may retain your data for up to two years.
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