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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.
we will delete your account data after three years of inactivity.
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"If you temporarily back up your data using Samsung Cloud's temporary backup service...you can restore it only within the storage period that was notified to you when you were temporarily backing up your data. Your data may be deleted once such notified storage period expires.Excerpt from Samsung's Terms of Service
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The clause states: “If you temporarily back up your data using Samsung Cloud's temporary backup service...you can restore it only within the storage period that was notified to you when you were temporarily backing up your data. Your data may be deleted once such notified storage period expires.”
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