“Generally, Tabnine does not retain information longer than necessary to provide its Services and for its reasonable business and lawful needs.”
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The clause establishes a general limit on how long Tabnine holds user information, but the qualifier 'reasonable business and lawful needs' gives Tabnine meaningful discretion over the retention period.
Interpretive note: The word 'generally' leaves open exceptions that are not specified in the excerpt. 'Reasonable business and lawful needs' is broad and undefined, making the effective retention limit difficult to assess.
Users' data is retained for a period determined by Tabnine's assessment of what is necessary for its Services and its reasonable business and lawful needs, with no fixed maximum duration stated.
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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...
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.
We will only retain your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was originally collected.
"Generally, Tabnine does not retain information longer than necessary to provide its Services and for its reasonable business and lawful needs.Excerpt from Tabnine's Privacy Policy
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The clause establishes a general limit on how long Tabnine holds user information, but the qualifier 'reasonable business and lawful needs' gives Tabnine meaningful discretion over the retention period.
Users' data is retained for a period determined by Tabnine's assessment of what is necessary for its Services and its reasonable business and lawful needs, with no fixed maximum duration stated.
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