Retention & Deletion · Company commitment
Information is kept only as long as necessary for the purposes it was collected, including legal requirements
Instacart says it keeps Personal Information only as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, including satisfying legal, accounting or reporting requirements. No fixed retention periods are stated.
Supporting quotations
12. Information Retention
We keep Personal Information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we have collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
Not stated here
- The policy gives no retention period for any category of information, including IDs, session replays, call recordings or precise location.
Retention & Deletion · Company practice
Retention periods are set by information type, risk, purpose, alternatives and legal requirements
To decide how long to keep Personal Information, Instacart says it considers the amount, nature and sensitivity of the information, the risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the purposes for which it uses it, whether it can achieve those purposes by other means, and applicable laws that require it to retain information for regulatory purposes or permit it to retain information to preserve its legal rights.
Supporting quotations
To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the Personal Information; the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the Personal Information; the purposes for which we use the Personal Information; whether we can achieve those purposes through other means; and the applicable laws that require us to retain information for regulatory purposes or permit us to retain the information to preserve our legal rights.
Qualifications & exceptions
- The factors guide the decision; the policy does not say which factor prevails.
Not stated here
- The policy does not say how these factors apply to specific categories.