Webull keeps your personal and financial data for as long as it considers necessary for business or legal purposes, without specifying a fixed maximum retention period.
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Open-ended retention language means your sensitive financial and identity data may be held indefinitely, as the policy does not commit to defined deletion timelines for most data categories.
Interpretive note: The precise interaction between open-ended business retention language and regulatory recordkeeping minimums, and the scope of deletion obligations upon user request, requires jurisdiction-specific legal analysis.
Shifted from general retention language to specific account deletion procedures with a 30-day restoration window before permanent deletion begins.
View full change record →Previous version had no excerpt provided; current version now includes specific criteria for retention duration.
View full change record →Webull's data retention policy does not specify maximum retention periods for most data categories, meaning your trading history, identity documents, and financial records could be held for extended periods after you close your account. The absence of specific retention schedules makes it difficult to predict when your data will be deleted.
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"We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, or as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law.Excerpt from Webull's Privacy Policy
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Broker-dealers registered with the SEC and FINRA are subject to mandatory recordkeeping requirements under SEC Rules 17a-3 and 17a-4, which require retention of specified customer records for defined minimum periods.
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Open-ended retention language means your sensitive financial and identity data may be held indefinitely, as the policy does not commit to defined deletion timelines for most data categories.
Webull's data retention policy does not specify maximum retention periods for most data categories, meaning your trading history, identity documents, and financial records could be held for extended periods after you close your account. The absence of specific retention schedules makes it difficult to predict when your data will be deleted.
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