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Upon account closure or school termination, Teachable states it may retain a copy of User Content and the user grants a non-exclusive perpetual irrevocable license for Teachable to maintain that archival copy for compliance and internal business purposes.
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This provision establishes a perpetual irrevocable license for post-termination content retention that is scoped to compliance and internal business purposes but is not time-limited. For EU-based Creators, this provision may require evaluation under GDPR data minimization and storage limitation principles, which generally require that personal data not be retained beyond what is necessary for a specified purpose.
Interpretive note: The 'subject to applicable law' qualifier creates jurisdictional variance in how this provision applies in practice, particularly for EU and California users with statutory deletion rights.
Under this clause, closing a Teachable account or terminating a school does not require Teachable to delete User Content, and the user grants a perpetual irrevocable license for Teachable to retain an archival copy for compliance and internal business purposes. The provision includes a qualification of 'subject to applicable law,' which may limit retention rights for users in jurisdictions with data deletion requirements.
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"If You close Your account or terminate Your school, Teachable may keep a copy of Your User Content after termination. You grant us a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable license to maintain such archival copy for compliance with any relevant laws and regulations and for our internal business purposes, subject to applicable law.Excerpt from Teachable's Terms of Use
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision directly engages GDPR Article 17 (right to erasure) and the storage limitation principle under GDPR Article 5(1)(e) for EU-based users, as the stated internal business purposes basis for perpetual retention may not satisfy the necessity standard required under GDPR. CCPA Section 1798.105 right to delete is also engaged for California residents. The qualification 'subject to applicable law' acknowledges this tension but does not resolve it. (2) GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. The perpetual irrevocable license for post-termination retention is qualified by applicable law, which reduces but does not eliminate exposure. The internal business purposes carve-out is broad and may be difficult to bound in practice. (3) JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU and EEA users have the highest exposure given GDPR storage limitation and erasure rights. California residents have CCPA deletion rights. UK users face similar constraints under UK GDPR. The 'subject to applicable law' qualifier indicates Teachable acknowledges jurisdictional constraints, but the document does not specify how those constraints are operationalized. (4) CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Organizations using Teachable as a data processor for employee or customer educational data should confirm in their DPA or vendor agreements that post-termination retention is bounded to legally required retention periods and that deletion procedures are operationally defined. (5) COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Legal teams should request confirmation of Teachable's data retention schedule upon account termination and verify that the archival copy retention is limited to legally required periods rather than treated as indefinite under the internal business purposes carve-out.
This provision establishes a perpetual irrevocable license for post-termination content retention that is scoped to compliance and internal business purposes but is not time-limited. For EU-based Creators, this provision may require evaluation under GDPR data minimization and storage limitation principles, which generally require that personal data not be retained beyond what is necessary for a specified purpose.
Under this clause, closing a Teachable account or terminating a school does not require Teachable to delete User Content, and the user grants a perpetual irrevocable license for Teachable to retain an archival copy for compliance and internal business purposes. The provision includes a qualification of 'subject to applicable law,' which may limit retention rights for users in jurisdictions with …
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