The policy states that personal data is retained only as long as necessary to provide services, with retention periods determined by factors including account maintenance, legal requirements, and business needs. De-identified or anonymized data may be retained for longer periods for research and analytics purposes.
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This provision establishes Khan Academy's retention framework, including the conditions under which data is deleted or de-identified and the permissible extended retention of anonymized data. The policy does not specify fixed retention periods for particular data categories, which may be relevant for compliance evaluation under GDPR, CCPA, and student privacy laws.
Interpretive note: The policy does not specify fixed retention periods for individual data categories, and the adequacy of the stated retention framework depends on applicable jurisdictional requirements that vary by regulation and data type.
Under this provision, the agreement states that personal data is retained as long as necessary for service provision and legal or business purposes, after which it is deleted or de-identified. De-identified and anonymized data may be retained indefinitely for product development and research purposes.
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Compare across platforms →"Our practice is to retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to provide our services to you, including maintaining your account on Khan Academy. In determining how long we retain your personal data, we consider how keeping the information will assist the learner (or the school, in the case of school accounts), our legal requirements and other business needs. When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal Information, our policy is to delete or de-identify the data. We may retain and use de-identified or anonymized data for longer periods for purposes such as product development, research, analytics and for demonstrating the impact of our Service.Excerpt from Khan Academy's Privacy Policy
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This provision establishes Khan Academy's retention framework, including the conditions under which data is deleted or de-identified and the permissible extended retention of anonymized data. The policy does not specify fixed retention periods for particular data categories, which may be relevant for compliance evaluation under GDPR, CCPA, and student privacy laws.
Under this provision, the agreement states that personal data is retained as long as necessary for service provision and legal or business purposes, after which it is deleted or de-identified. De-identified and anonymized data may be retained indefinitely for product development and research purposes.
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