“Once your account is terminated, you acknowledge and agree that we may permanently delete your account and all the data associated with it, including your Campaigns.”
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The deletion is permanent and covers all associated data including Campaigns, meaning there is no recovery mechanism for data lost following account termination.
If your account is terminated, Mailchimp may permanently delete your account and all data associated with it, including your Campaigns, with no implication of any recovery right.
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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.
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.
If you close your account, we will delete your account data within 180 days...
"Once your account is terminated, you acknowledge and agree that we may permanently delete your account and all the data associated with it, including your Campaigns.Excerpt from Mailchimp's Standard Terms of Use
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The deletion is permanent and covers all associated data including Campaigns, meaning there is no recovery mechanism for data lost following account termination.
If your account is terminated, Mailchimp may permanently delete your account and all data associated with it, including your Campaigns, with no implication of any recovery right.
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