Retention & Deletion · Company commitment
Pinterest keeps information as long as it needs it, then removes or depersonalizes it
Pinterest keeps your information only as long as it needs it to provide the Pinterest services to you and fulfill the purposes described on this page and in its Privacy Policy. When it no longer needs the information and has no need to keep it to comply with legal or regulatory obligations, it will either remove it from its systems or depersonalize it so that it cannot identify you. No fixed retention periods are given.
Supporting quotations
We keep your information only so long as we need it to provide the Pinterest services to you and fulfill the purposes described here and in our
When we no longer need to use your information and there is no need for us to keep it to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, we’ll either remove it from our systems or depersonalize it so that we can't identify you.
Qualifications & exceptions
- Information may be kept longer when needed to comply with legal or regulatory obligations.
- Pinterest may depersonalize information instead of deleting it.
Not stated here
- No specific retention periods are stated; the Privacy Policy, which may say more, is not supplied.
Cross-references
- qualifies (model-proposed): You can ask Pinterest to delete personal information it collected from you — qualifies: The retention statement keeps information needed to comply with legal or regulatory obligations, which bears on how a deletion request is carried out.