“Valve is required to retain certain transactional data under statutory commercial and tax law for a period of up to ten (10) years.”
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The claim establishes a legally mandated retention period for certain transactional data that operates independently of user preferences or account deletion.
Certain transactional data Valve holds about you may be retained for up to ten years regardless of other actions, because statutory commercial and tax law requires it.
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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.
"Valve is required to retain certain transactional data under statutory commercial and tax law for a period of up to ten (10) years.Excerpt from Steam's Privacy Policy
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The claim establishes a legally mandated retention period for certain transactional data that operates independently of user preferences or account deletion.
Certain transactional data Valve holds about you may be retained for up to ten years regardless of other actions, because statutory commercial and tax law requires it.
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