“We retain Personal Data about you for as long as you have an open account with us or as otherwise necessary to provide you with our Services.”
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This clause defines the baseline duration for which Linear holds Personal Data, meaning data is not deleted simply because it is no longer actively used but persists for the full account lifetime.
A reader's Personal Data will be retained by Linear throughout the period their account remains open and potentially beyond, for as long as necessary to provide the Services.
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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 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...
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.
"We retain Personal Data about you for as long as you have an open account with us or as otherwise necessary to provide you with our Services.Excerpt from Linear's Privacy Policy
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This clause defines the baseline duration for which Linear holds Personal Data, meaning data is not deleted simply because it is no longer actively used but persists for the full account lifetime.
A reader's Personal Data will be retained by Linear throughout the period their account remains open and potentially beyond, for as long as necessary to provide the Services.
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