Public keeps your personal data for as long as it needs to for business purposes, legal compliance, and dispute resolution, without specifying exact timeframes for most data categories.
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The absence of specific retention periods for sensitive financial and identity data means Public may retain your SSN, trading history, and financial account information for an indeterminate period after you close your account.
Interpretive note: The policy does not specify retention periods by data category, making it unclear how long specific types of sensitive data are retained after account closure, and whether the retention is driven by regulatory requirements or internal business practices.
Your sensitive personal and financial data may be retained by Public for an extended and unspecified period after you stop using the service, particularly if legal or regulatory requirements apply, which are common in the broker-dealer context.
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"We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, or for as long as necessary to resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.Excerpt from Public.com's Privacy Policy
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: SEC and FINRA rules impose specific recordkeeping retention periods for broker-dealer customer records, which may require Public to retain certain account and transaction data for six years or longer regardless of user deletion …
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The absence of specific retention periods for sensitive financial and identity data means Public may retain your SSN, trading history, and financial account information for an indeterminate period after you close your account.
Your sensitive personal and financial data may be retained by Public for an extended and unspecified period after you stop using the service, particularly if legal or regulatory requirements apply, which are common in the broker-dealer context.
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