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We may continue to retain some information even after you delete your account if we are required to do so in order to comply with applicable laws.
We retain your account information for as long as your account is active and up to 15 days thereafter.
After you submit a request to delete your account, we initiate a deletion process to safely and completely remove your data from our servers or retain it only in anonymized form.
"we may keep some data for the life of your Waze Account if it's useful for helping us understand how users interact with our features and how we can improve our services.Excerpt from Waze's Privacy Policy
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The clause states: “we may keep some data for the life of your Waze Account if it's useful for helping us understand how users interact with our features and how we can improve our services.”
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