Stripe keeps your personal data for as long as it needs to for business and legal purposes, with no specific maximum retention period stated for most data types.
Stripe does not specify concrete retention timeframes for payment card details, transaction history, or behavioral data, meaning this information may be held indefinitely subject only to broad business and legal justifications.
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Following deletion of your account, it may take up to 45 days to delete your personal information and system logs from our systems. Once deleted, we cannot reinstate your data, including your account, activities, and place on leaderboards.
When you sign up for an account with us, we'll retain information you store on our Services for as long as your account exists or as long as we need it to provide you the Services. If you delete your account, we'll initiate deletion of this information after 30 days.
When you connect to us or log in through a Third-Party Account like Facebook or Google, we receive information from that third party identifying your account. Information we collect in this context includes third-party account details such as username or email address. We collect and store this info...
The absence of specific retention periods for most data types means Stripe could retain financial and behavioral data for extended periods, with limited practical ability for consumers to challenge retention beyond legal minimum requirements.
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: Data retention implicates GDPR Art. 5(1)(e) (storage limitation principle — data kept no longer than necessary), GDPR Art. 17 (right to erasure), GLBA recordkeeping requirements, FinCEN AML record retention (5 years under 31 CFR §1020.410), PCI DSS cardholder data retention requirements, and CCPA §1798.100 (consumers' right to know retention periods for each category of personal information).
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