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The clause establishes that data retention obligations and regulatory compliance requirements take precedence over account deletion requests, and clarifies that deletion requests are scoped to a single application account rather than comprehensive deletion across all State Farm customer records.
Users who request account deletion through a mobile application should understand that State Farm will retain their information according to institutional retention schedules, and that the deletion applies only to the specific application account rather than eliminating all State Farm records associated with the user.
How other platforms handle this
If you follow the instructions here, your account will be deactivated and your data will be queued for deletion. When deactivated, your X account, including your display name, username, and public profile, will no longer be viewable on X.com, X for iOS, and X for Android. For up to 30 days after dea...
When you delete your account, your profile is no longer visible to other users and disassociated from content you posted under that account. Please note, however, that the posts, comments, and messages you submitted prior to deleting your account will still be visible to others unless you first dele...
We store information until it is no longer necessary to provide our services and WhatsApp Products, or until your account is deleted or becomes inactive, whichever comes first. This is a case-by-case determination that depends on things like the nature of the information, why it is collected and pro...
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"Some operating system developers, such as Apple, allow mobile application users to request deletion of accounts created within an application. If you request deletion of your account, State Farm may still retain your information for legal, auditing, regulatory and business purposes. Retention periods vary according to specific legal, auditing, regulatory and business needs. A request to delete an account within the mobile application only applies to the credentials and account you created within the Application and not to any other accounts you may have with State Farm.— Excerpt from State Farm's State Farm Privacy Policy
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The clause establishes that data retention obligations and regulatory compliance requirements take precedence over account deletion requests, and clarifies that deletion requests are scoped to a single application account rather than comprehensive deletion across all State Farm customer records.
Users who request account deletion through a mobile application should understand that State Farm will retain their information according to institutional retention schedules, and that the deletion applies only to the specific application account rather than eliminating all State Farm records associated with the user.
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