“We retain Personal Information for as long as we have a valid business purpose to or to meet our legal obligations. Redfin may be required to keep a copy of your Personal Information...”
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Deleting an account does not guarantee deletion of Personal Information, because Redfin's retention is governed by its own business purposes and legal obligations.
Interpretive note: The excerpt contains a sentence fragment ('we have a valid business purpose to') suggesting a typographical omission; the canonical claim reflects the most reasonable reading. The term 'valid business purpose' is not defined in the excerpt.
Your Personal Information may remain in Redfin's systems after account deletion, for as long as Redfin has a valid business purpose or is legally required to retain it.
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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.
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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.
"We retain Personal Information for as long as we have a valid business purpose to or to meet our legal obligations. Redfin may be required to keep a copy of your Personal Information...Excerpt from Redfin's Privacy Policy
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Deleting an account does not guarantee deletion of Personal Information, because Redfin's retention is governed by its own business purposes and legal obligations.
Your Personal Information may remain in Redfin's systems after account deletion, for as long as Redfin has a valid business purpose or is legally required to retain it.
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