The policy states that Notion retains personal information for the duration of the user's use of the Services or as long as necessary for enumerated purposes including dispute resolution, legal defense, audits, legitimate business purposes, agreement enforcement, and legal compliance. No specific retention periods are defined.
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The retention policy does not specify defined retention periods for any category of personal information, instead relying on open-ended criteria including legitimate business purposes. This may require evaluation under GDPR's storage limitation principle and similar requirements in other jurisdictions that expect defined or proportionate retention schedules.
Interpretive note: The open-ended retention criteria referencing legitimate business purposes may be interpreted differently by EU, UK, and Swiss supervisory authorities under their respective storage limitation requirements, creating jurisdictional variance in how this provision applies in practice.
Under these terms, personal information may be retained for the duration of service use and for additional periods as determined by Notion's stated purposes including legal defense and legitimate business purposes. No specific retention timelines are defined for any category of data, and users seeking deletion of their data may submit requests subject to the exceptions described in the policy.
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"We store the information we receive as described in this Privacy Policy for as long as you use our Services or as necessary to fulfill the purpose(s) for which it was collected, provide our Services, resolve disputes, establish legal defenses, conduct audits, pursue legitimate business purposes, enforce our agreements, and comply with applicable laws.Excerpt from Notion's Privacy Policy
1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages the GDPR's storage limitation principle, which requires that personal data be kept no longer than necessary for the specified purpose with defined or ascertainable retention periods.
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The retention policy does not specify defined retention periods for any category of personal information, instead relying on open-ended criteria including legitimate business purposes. This may require evaluation under GDPR's storage limitation principle and similar requirements in other jurisdictions that expect defined or proportionate retention schedules.
Under these terms, personal information may be retained for the duration of service use and for additional periods as determined by Notion's stated purposes including legal defense and legitimate business purposes. No specific retention timelines are defined for any category of data, and users seeking deletion of their data may submit requests subject to the exceptions described in the policy.
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