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Account closure or a deletion request does not guarantee complete erasure of Personal Information; PayPal maintains the right to retain some data.
Closing a PayPal account or submitting a deletion request will not result in the deletion of all of the reader's Personal Information.
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Account closure or a deletion request does not guarantee complete erasure of Personal Information; PayPal maintains the right to retain some data.
Closing a PayPal account or submitting a deletion request will not result in the deletion of all of the reader's Personal Information.
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