“if you request deletion of your personal information, or if your account is suspended, terminated, or voluntarily closed: We may retain your personal information as necessary for our legitimate business interests, such as fraud detection and prevention and enhancing safety.”
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A deletion request does not guarantee removal of personal information; Skillshare retains discretion to keep it when it determines retention is necessary for stated legitimate business interests.
Interpretive note: The excerpt contains an ellipsis between 'if you request deletion of your personal information' and the retention statement, indicating omitted text that may include additional conditions or context not reflected in the canonical claim.
Requesting deletion of your personal information does not require Skillshare to delete it if retention is necessary for its legitimate business interests, such as fraud detection and prevention and enhancing safety.
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Where we process Personal Information for marketing purposes, we process the data until you ask us to stop and for a short period after this request (to allow us to implement your requests).
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.
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.
"if you request deletion of your personal information, or if your account is suspended, terminated, or voluntarily closed: We may retain your personal information as necessary for our legitimate business interests, such as fraud detection and prevention and enhancing safety.Excerpt from Skillshare's Privacy Policy
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A deletion request does not guarantee removal of personal information; Skillshare retains discretion to keep it when it determines retention is necessary for stated legitimate business interests.
Requesting deletion of your personal information does not require Skillshare to delete it if retention is necessary for its legitimate business interests, such as fraud detection and prevention and enhancing safety.
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