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This clause establishes a temporal limit on how long Midjourney holds Personal Data, tying retention directly to stated purposes.
Interpretive note: The excerpt contains a second independent proposition—retention to comply with legal obligations—which was omitted from the canonical claim and recorded here.
Midjourney is required to stop retaining your Personal Data once it is no longer necessary for the stated purposes.
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We keep your personal information where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so (for example, to provide you with our Services or to comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements).
We generally retain your personal information for only as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements...
We collect and keep personal data only as needed or allowed for the purposes set out in this Statement, based on the reason we collected the personal data in the first instance and what is permitted under the laws that apply to the processing.
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This clause establishes a temporal limit on how long Midjourney holds Personal Data, tying retention directly to stated purposes.
Midjourney is required to stop retaining your Personal Data once it is no longer necessary for the stated purposes.
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