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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 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.
We will promptly destroy personal information at the end of the retention period, as described above. When we destroy personal information, we do so in a way that prevents that information from being restored or reconstructed.
"Perplexity shall delete (or, at Customer’s option, return) all Personal Data within thirty days of the end of the provision of the Services to Customer, unless retention of the Personal Data is required by law, in which case, Perplexity shall notify Customer without undue delay of such legal requirement and shall upon the expiration of such retention obligation delete (or, at Customer's option, return) the Personal Data.Excerpt from Perplexity AI's Perplexity Data Processing Addendum
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The clause states: “Perplexity shall delete (or, at Customer’s option, return) all Personal Data within thirty days of the end of the provision of the Services to Customer, unless retention of the Personal Data is required by law, in which case, Perplexity shall notify Customer without undue delay of such legal requirement and …”
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