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We may retain your Personal Data for a period of time consistent with the original purpose of collection...or as long as required to fulfill our legal and/or regulatory obligations.
Your personal data will be deleted when it is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was originally collected, unless we have a legal obligation to retain data for a longer period of time.
Affirm will retain your information in accordance with our Privacy Policy and any applicable state or federal law, rule or regulation.
"We will only store your information as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which the information is collected and processed...After that your Personal Data will be deleted, blocked or anonymized, as provided by applicable law.Excerpt from Steam's Privacy Policy
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The clause states: “We will only store your information as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which the information is collected and processed...After that your Personal Data will be deleted, blocked or anonymized, as provided by applicable law.”
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