“We will delete all your data, unless we have to retain it to respect our legal obligations (e.g. accounting).”
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The clause creates a default deletion commitment while carving out an exception that can limit how much data is actually deleted, depending on applicable legal obligations.
The reader's data will be deleted by Ledger, except for data that Ledger is legally required to retain.
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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 may continue to retain some information even after you delete your account if we are required to do so in order to comply with applicable laws.
After you submit a request to delete your account, we initiate a deletion process to safely and completely remove your data from our servers or retain it only in anonymized form.
"We will delete all your data, unless we have to retain it to respect our legal obligations (e.g. accounting).Excerpt from Ledger's Privacy Policy
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The clause creates a default deletion commitment while carving out an exception that can limit how much data is actually deleted, depending on applicable legal obligations.
The reader's data will be deleted by Ledger, except for data that Ledger is legally required to retain.
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