Target keeps your personal information for as long as it considers necessary for business, legal, or operational reasons, without specifying a defined maximum retention period for most data types.
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Open-ended retention language means Target does not commit to deleting your data after a fixed period, which has practical implications for the scope of data available for advertising, legal discovery, or potential data breaches over time.
Interpretive note: The adequacy of open-ended retention language under CPRA's specific retention schedule disclosure requirement is subject to ongoing regulatory interpretation by the California Privacy Protection Agency.
Without defined retention periods for specific data types, your personal information, including purchase history, behavioral data, and inferences, may be retained indefinitely as long as Target identifies a legitimate business purpose. Consumers in states with privacy rights can submit deletion requests to remove data that is no longer necessary.
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"We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide you with our products and services, to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes, to enforce our agreements, and for other legitimate and lawful business purposes.Excerpt from Target's Privacy Policy
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Open-ended retention language means Target does not commit to deleting your data after a fixed period, which has practical implications for the scope of data available for advertising, legal discovery, or potential data breaches over time.
Without defined retention periods for specific data types, your personal information, including purchase history, behavioral data, and inferences, may be retained indefinitely as long as Target identifies a legitimate business purpose. Consumers in states with privacy rights can submit deletion requests to remove data that is no longer necessary.
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