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The clause creates a need-based retention standard rather than fixed retention periods, authorizing Squarespace to maintain data for operational and compliance purposes while establishing obligations to remove or isolate data when business justification ends. This affects the duration and scope of data processing the company conducts.
Users' personal information remains accessible to Squarespace for active service delivery and legal obligations, with deletion or anonymization occurring only after legitimate business needs conclude. The provision permits extended retention in backup archives with processing restrictions until technical deletion is feasible.
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"We retain personal information we collect from you where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so (for example, to provide you with a service you have requested or to comply with applicable legal, tax, or accounting requirements). When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.— Excerpt from Squarespace's Squarespace Privacy Policy
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The clause creates a need-based retention standard rather than fixed retention periods, authorizing Squarespace to maintain data for operational and compliance purposes while establishing obligations to remove or isolate data when business justification ends. This affects the duration and scope of data processing the company conducts.
Users' personal information remains accessible to Squarespace for active service delivery and legal obligations, with deletion or anonymization occurring only after legitimate business needs conclude. The provision permits extended retention in backup archives with processing restrictions until technical deletion is feasible.
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