Account deletion does not guarantee erasure of personal data when a legal order requires its preservation, meaning user-initiated deletion has limits.
We retain your personal data even after you have closed your account if reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations (including law enforcement requests), meet regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse...
A user's deletion request does not guarantee data removal; OpenSea retains discretion to keep data under several broad but qualified grounds.
Okta
· Okta Privacy Policy
Retention tied to original purpose limits prolonged data holding, but the legal obligations, disputes, and enforcement carve-outs can extend retention indefinitely in practice.
Shein
· Shein Terms and Conditions
some data may be retained to the extent it is permitted by applicable law and/or is necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, we may retain your order history information to satisfy legally required financial reporting obligations)...
Intuit
· Intuit Privacy Statement
A user's deletion request or end of their contractual relationship with Intuit does not guarantee erasure; legal and regulatory obligations may override those requests and compel continued retention.
Square
· Square Privacy Notice
Retention is not limited to the duration of an active account; data may be kept after account closure for legal, enforcement, and fraud-related purposes, potentially for an extended and indeterminate period.
ADP
· ADP Privacy Statement
This clause limits ADP's data retention to what is necessary for specified purposes, constraining indefinite or open-ended storage of personal data.
Windsurf
· Windsurf Security & Data Handling
This clause establishes a default data retention limit tied to the active customer relationship, with customers holding the ability to specify alternative retention terms.
Duolingo will generally retain your personal information until your account is deleted.
Uber
· Uber Privacy Notice
if you are banned from Uber's services because of serious fraudulent or unsafe behavior, Uber will retain your data after an account deletion request to prevent you from re-obtaining access to Uber's platform.
A deletion or access request does not guarantee that Uniswap will stop retaining the information, as legitimate interests and legal obligations can override such requests.
eBay
· eBay Privacy Notice
The deletion obligation is subject to broad legal carve-outs, meaning personal data may be retained beyond the standard retention period for a range of legal and regulatory reasons.
Reverb
· Reverb Privacy Policy
Retention is tied to account activity and service necessity rather than a fixed time limit, meaning data may be held indefinitely while an account remains open.
The claim establishes that retention is bounded by a minimum necessary standard, but applies across multiple broad purposes, which collectively define how long data may be kept.
Grindr
· Grindr Privacy Policy
This clause establishes a necessity ceiling on retention, but the legal-obligations carve-out means Grindr may retain data beyond the original collection purpose when law permits or requires it.
Data retention and deletion timelines are not fixed by the Privacy Policy but are instead determined by the individual Customer Agreement, meaning different customers may have different deletion terms.
Retention is tied to multiple independent bases, meaning data may be kept beyond the life of the user relationship if legal obligations or protective interests require it.
DeepL
· DeepL Privacy Policy
Audio data, which can be highly sensitive, is not retained indefinitely but is removed at a defined point tied to service completion.
It establishes that in the absence of user action, chat data is retained for 18 months, and it defines the exact alternative retention periods available to users.
If you have agreed to our Informed Consent to Research, we will not be able to remove your de-identified Genetic Information from active or completed research projects, but we will not use it for any new research projects.
Plaid
· Plaid Terms of Use
At the Disclosing Party's request upon expiration or termination of these Terms or otherwise, the Receiving Party will delete all of the Disclosing Party's Confidential Information in its possession
OpenAI
· OpenAI Enterprise Privacy
Any deleted conversations are removed from our systems within 30 days, unless we are legally required to retain them.
Indeed
· Indeed Privacy Policy (Superseded Capture)
Deletion of your Personal Data does not affect messages we process on behalf of others in connection with their use of our site, and they may continue to have access to all messages sent to or received from you.
If we learn that we have collected personal information from or about anyone under age 18, we will delete that information as quickly as possible.
The clause sets a firm maximum retention period for Customer Personal Data while preserving a legal-obligation exception, giving customers a concrete deadline for data deletion.
If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without parental consent, we will promptly delete that information.
Heap
· Heap Privacy Policy
If we learn that any personal information has been collected inadvertently from a child under 16, we will delete the information as soon as possible.
Canva
· Canva Privacy Policy
If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child without verification of parental consent where this is required, we will delete that information as quickly as possible.
The obligation is qualified by 'commercially reasonable efforts,' meaning deletion is not absolute or guaranteed, which limits the protection afforded to children whose data was inadvertently collected.