Klarna keeps your data as long as it needs to for business or legal reasons, which could be several years, and may retain it even longer for fraud prevention purposes.
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Your financial and personal data may be held by Klarna for an extended and unspecified period after you stop using the service, and the policy does not commit to specific maximum retention periods for most data categories.
Interpretive note: The policy does not disclose specific retention periods for individual data categories, making it impossible to assess from the document text alone whether retention practices comply with the GDPR storage limitation principle.
Reframed from general retention principles to focus on deletion rights and legal/banking retention exceptions, with added consequence that exercising deletion terminates all agreements.
View full change record →Previous version had no excerpt; current version now specifies fraud prevention and dispute resolution as legitimate grounds for extended retention.
View full change record →The policy does not specify exact retention periods for most categories of personal data, which means Klarna may retain your financial and behavioral data for an indeterminate period; you can request deletion of your data through Klarna's privacy portal, but certain data may be retained even after deletion requests where legal obligations apply.
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"We retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, including to satisfy any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. In some cases, we may retain your data for longer periods where required by law or for legitimate business purposes such as fraud prevention and dispute resolution.Excerpt from Klarna's Privacy Policy
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Data retention practices must comply with the GDPR storage limitation principle under Article 5(1)(e), which requires that personal data is kept no longer than necessary for the purposes for which it is processed.
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Your financial and personal data may be held by Klarna for an extended and unspecified period after you stop using the service, and the policy does not commit to specific maximum retention periods for most data categories.
The policy does not specify exact retention periods for most categories of personal data, which means Klarna may retain your financial and behavioral data for an indeterminate period; you can request deletion of your data through Klarna's privacy portal, but certain data may be retained even after deletion requests where legal obligations apply.
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