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The clause ties the retention period to a specific, short-duration technical event, minimising how long authentication-purpose Biometric Data is held.
Your Biometric Data submitted for identity verification is deleted once the comparison result is confirmed, typically within minutes.
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Any biometric data we collect from you will be deleted within 48 hours and will be used for the purpose of enabling you to see yourself wearing virtual eyeglass frames.
if you're a Customer, we may not immediately delete your information when your trial expires or you cancel all your paid Services. Instead, we keep your information for a reasonable period of time, so it will be there for you if you come back.
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.
"For authenticating the Avatar submission, Biometric Data is stored and used only until we confirm the results of the samples comparison which usually occurs within few minutes of the submission.Excerpt from Synthesia's Privacy Policy
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The clause ties the retention period to a specific, short-duration technical event, minimising how long authentication-purpose Biometric Data is held.
Your Biometric Data submitted for identity verification is deleted once the comparison result is confirmed, typically within minutes.
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