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If the Services are made available to you through an organization (e.g., your employer), we retain your information as long as required by the administrator of your account.
At the end of the retention period, personal information will be deleted, destroyed, or deidentified.
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.
"To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use...Excerpt from PlanetScale's Privacy Policy
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The clause states: “To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use...”
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