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We will retain your Personal Information for as long as we need it to provide you with access to our Services or to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected...
We may retain some of your Data even after you cease to use our Services, for instance if the Data is necessary to meet our legal obligations, such as tax and accounting requirements.
Where specific retention periods are required by law, we comply with those timeframes; otherwise, we apply the criteria above to determine how long to retain the information.
"Your personal data will be generally retained as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected the personal data.Excerpt from Zendesk's Privacy Policy
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The clause states: “Your personal data will be generally retained as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected the personal data.”
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