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Closing an account or ceasing to use Stripe's Services does not end Stripe's retention of your Personal Data, which continues for compliance and fraud purposes.
Interpretive note: The excerpt contains an ellipsis indicating omitted text, suggesting additional retention purposes beyond legal obligations and fraud monitoring. Only the two explicitly quoted purposes are captured in the canonical claim. Confidence is medium because the full list of retention purposes is not available from the excerpt.
Even after Stripe stops providing Services to you directly, your Personal Data may be retained by Stripe for legal compliance and fraud monitoring, detection, and prevention purposes.
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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.
"Even after we stop providing Services directly to you...we may continue to retain your Personal Data to: Comply with our legal and regulatory obligations; Enable fraud monitoring, detection, and prevention...Excerpt from Stripe's Privacy Policy
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Closing an account or ceasing to use Stripe's Services does not end Stripe's retention of your Personal Data, which continues for compliance and fraud purposes.
Even after Stripe stops providing Services to you directly, your Personal Data may be retained by Stripe for legal compliance and fraud monitoring, detection, and prevention purposes.
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