After you cancel, Hugging Face will try to delete your information and own-Repository Content within 90 days
Upon cancellation of the Account, Hugging Face will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete the user's information and the Content of the user's own Repositories, public or private, within 90 days. It will not delete Content the user contributed to other Users' Repositories, or copies made by Hugging Face or other Users. The next paragraph reserves the right to retain information for legal or regulatory compliance and through standard archiving, recovery and back-up processes.
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Upon cancellation of your Account, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete your information and Content of your own Repositories, whether public or private, within 90 days.
We will not delete the Content that you contributed to other Users
or copies made by us or other Users.
Qualifications & exceptions
The commitment is to 'commercially reasonable efforts', not a guaranteed deletion.
Applies on cancellation of the Account; the passage does not say whether termination by Hugging Face triggers the same deletion.
Public Repositories' licenses to other Users are described as perpetual and irrevocable in the Content section, and copies made by other Users are expressly not deleted.
Not stated here
'Your information' and 'Content of your own Repositories' could be read as one object or two; the exact scope of non-Repository account information deleted is not clear.
Whether termination by Hugging Face triggers the 90-day deletion effort is not stated.
Retention & Deletion · Company practice
Hugging Face may keep your information for legal needs, backups and the Privacy Policy
Hugging Face reserves the right to retain the user's information for legal or regulatory compliance, under standard archiving, recovery and back-up processes and practices, and under its Privacy Policy. This sits alongside the commitment to try to delete information within 90 days of cancellation.
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We also reserve the right to retain your information for legal or regulatory compliance, pursuant to standard archiving, recovery, and back-up processes and practices, and pursuant to our Privacy Policy.
Qualifications & exceptions
Qualifies the 90-day deletion effort: retention for these reasons can continue after cancellation.
Not stated here
No retention period for legal, back-up or archive copies is stated; the Privacy Policy is not supplied.
Confidential Information stays the discloser's property; return or destroy on termination
Confidential Information always remains the exclusive property of the disclosing party. When the Agreement terminates or expires, Hugging Face asks the user to promptly destroy or return all Confidential Information, and says it will do the same if the user asks.
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Confidential Information is and shall at all times remain the exclusive property of the disclosing Party.
Upon termination or expiration of the Agreement, we ask you to promptly destroy or return all Confidential Information, and we will do the same if you ask us to do so.
Qualifications & exceptions
The user-side step is worded as a request ('we ask you'); Hugging Face's step is on request.
Not stated here
No deadline or certification requirement is stated beyond 'promptly'.