Retention & Deletion · Company practice
Netflix keeps data as long as needed for its purposes, legal duties and legal claims, with no fixed periods
Netflix may retain personal information as required or permitted by law, including to honor your choices, for billing or records, and as otherwise necessary for the purposes in this statement. It keeps data as long as necessary to provide the service, operate the business, research and improve, market, support ads, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law and enforce its terms. How long depends on factors such as your relationship with Netflix (for example, whether you are a current member), the nature of the data, legal obligations, and the need to defend or resolve current or anticipated legal claims. When data is no longer required, Netflix takes reasonable measures to securely destroy or de-identify it.
Supporting quotations
We may retain personal information as required or permitted by applicable laws and regulations, including to honor your choices, for our billing or records purposes, and as otherwise necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Statement.
Specifically, we retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the following purposes:
Our retention of personal information is based on many factors such as your relationship with Netflix (for example, whether you are a current Netflix member), the nature of the personal information, our legal obligations, and the need to defend or resolve current or anticipated legal claims.
We take reasonable measures to destroy or de-identify personal information in a secure manner when it is no longer required. For information about retention of personal information, please see:
Qualifications & exceptions
- No specific retention periods are stated.
- Destruction or de-identification is by "reasonable measures" once data is no longer required.
Not stated here
- The linked retention help article is not supplied.