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Regional data residency is not absolute; Twilio retains the ability to move Customer Content outside the selected region when investigating fraud or abuse, which is a meaningful limitation on the regional data guarantee.
Your Customer Content stays in your selected region under Regional Twilio, but Twilio may process it outside that region when investigating fraud or abuse.
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Customer Content is hosted in Mixpanel's data center in the United States or the European Economic Area, as elected by Customer, or, if purchased by Customer, in India.
In the event of Account deletion for any reason, the Company may, but is not obligated to, delete any of Your Content. the Company shall not be responsible for the failure to delete or deletion of Your Content.
We retain Commercial Content as necessary to provide our services to users, for internal record keeping, and for product improvement and safety purposes.
"If using Regional Twilio for supported products, Customer Content is stored and processed in the region selected (Ireland or Australia). Exceptions will occur as necessary to investigate issues of fraud and abuse.Excerpt from Twilio's Sub-Processors
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Regional data residency is not absolute; Twilio retains the ability to move Customer Content outside the selected region when investigating fraud or abuse, which is a meaningful limitation on the regional data guarantee.
Your Customer Content stays in your selected region under Regional Twilio, but Twilio may process it outside that region when investigating fraud or abuse.
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