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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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Where we process Personal Information for marketing purposes, we process the data until you ask us to stop and for a short period after this request (to allow us to implement your requests).
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 PayPal account(s) or profile, delete, or request that we delete Personal Information, we still need to keep some Personal Information as explained in How Long Do We Store Your Personal Information...Excerpt from PayPal's Privacy Statement
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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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