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We may retain some of your Data even after you cease to use our Services, for instance if the Data is necessary to meet our legal obligations, such as tax and accounting requirements.
Smartsheet may retain copies of Customer Content as part of records, documents, or broader data sets in accordance with Smartsheet's legal and financial compliance obligations, on condition that Smartsheet continues to comply with all the requirements of the Agreement...
Where specific retention periods are required by law, we comply with those timeframes; otherwise, we apply the criteria above to determine how long to retain the information.
"We retain Commercial Content as necessary to provide our services to users, for internal record keeping, and for product improvement and safety purposes.Excerpt from Meta's Commercial Terms
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The clause states: “We retain Commercial Content as necessary to provide our services to users, for internal record keeping, and for product improvement and safety purposes.”
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