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We may retain some of your Data even after you cease to use our Services, for instance if the Data is necessary to meet our legal obligations, such as tax and accounting requirements.
When Personal Information is no longer needed for the purposes for which it was collected, we securely delete, anonymize, or put it beyond use.
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.
"When we process your information as a service provider or processor for the merchant, the merchant, not Shopify, decides how long your information is retained.Excerpt from Shopify's Privacy Policy
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The clause states: “When we process your information as a service provider or processor for the merchant, the merchant, not Shopify, decides how long your information is retained.”
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