“we keep information as long as you tell us to, and otherwise as long as we need it to provide our Services, or as required by law.”
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Retention is governed by three separate triggers—user instruction, operational need, and legal obligation—meaning data may persist beyond a user's preferences if law or operational need requires it.
Your information may be retained by Snapchat beyond what you direct if Snapchat needs it to provide its Services or is required to keep it by law.
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We will retain your Data for as long as necessary: (i) to achieve the purposes as set out in this Policy; (ii) as required by applicable laws and regulations, including any mandated retention periods...
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 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 keep information as long as you tell us to, and otherwise as long as we need it to provide our Services, or as required by law.Excerpt from Snapchat's Privacy Policy
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Retention is governed by three separate triggers—user instruction, operational need, and legal obligation—meaning data may persist beyond a user's preferences if law or operational need requires it.
Your information may be retained by Snapchat beyond what you direct if Snapchat needs it to provide its Services or is required to keep it by law.
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