Samsung keeps your personal data for as long as it needs to for business or legal reasons, but doesn't specify exact retention periods for most data categories — data may be retained for extended periods.
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This provision establishes the operational framework governing Samsung's data retention lifecycle and specifies the conditions under which personal information will be removed or anonymized from active systems. The clause ties retention periods to functional necessity and legal requirements rather than indefinite storage.
Samsung does not commit to specific retention periods for most categories of personal data, meaning your voice recordings, health data, and viewing history could be retained for extended periods unless you actively request deletion.
How other platforms handle this
We retain personal data for as long as needed to provide our services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies. Retention periods will vary depending on the type of data and the purposes for which we use it.
Microsoft retains personal data for as long as necessary to provide the products and fulfill the transactions you have requested, or for other legitimate purposes such as complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, and enforcing our agreements. Because these needs can vary for differen...
We keep information as long as we need it to provide our products and services and fulfil the purposes described in this policy. This is a case-by-case determination that depends on things like the nature of the information, why it is collected and processed, relevant legal or operational retention ...
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"We retain personal information for as long as necessary to provide you with our services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. When we no longer need to use your information and there is no legal obligation to retain it, we will remove it from our systems or anonymize it.— Excerpt from Samsung's Samsung Privacy Policy
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: CPRA (Cal. Civ. Code §1798.100(a)(3)) requires businesses to disclose the specific retention period or criteria for determining it for each category of personal information collected. The California Privacy Protection Agency's 2023 regulations (11 CCR §7013) mandate retention period disclosure as part of the required privacy notice. Illinois BIPA (740 ILCS 14/15(a)) requires a publicly available written policy establishing a retention schedule and guidelines for permanently destroying biometric data. GDPR Art. 5(1)(e) requires data to be kept in a form permitting identification for no longer than necessary for the specified purpose.
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This provision establishes the operational framework governing Samsung's data retention lifecycle and specifies the conditions under which personal information will be removed or anonymized from active systems. The clause ties retention periods to functional necessity and legal requirements rather than indefinite storage.
Samsung does not commit to specific retention periods for most categories of personal data, meaning your voice recordings, health data, and viewing history could be retained for extended periods unless you actively request deletion.
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