“When we delete your account, we may retain certain information for legitimate business purposes or to comply with legal or regulatory obligations. For example, we may retain your information to resolve open insurance claims...”
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Account deletion does not guarantee erasure of all personal information; Lyft retains the right to keep data under qualifying conditions even after a deletion request is fulfilled.
Interpretive note: The open insurance claims example is illustrative, not an independent legal proposition.
Deleting your account does not result in the removal of all your data; certain information may be retained by Lyft.
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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.
Those posts and profile information may remain on such sites even after you delete your account.
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.
"When we delete your account, we may retain certain information for legitimate business purposes or to comply with legal or regulatory obligations. For example, we may retain your information to resolve open insurance claims...Excerpt from Lyft's Privacy Policy
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Account deletion does not guarantee erasure of all personal information; Lyft retains the right to keep data under qualifying conditions even after a deletion request is fulfilled.
Deleting your account does not result in the removal of all your data; certain information may be retained by Lyft.
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