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Retention & Deletion · Company commitment
All Age Check Data collected by Spotify is deleted immediately after the age verification process is completed.
All Age Check Data is deleted immediately after the Age Check.
Retention & Deletion · Company practice
The company retains personal data only for as long as necessary to provide the Spotify Service and for its legitimate and essential business purposes.
We keep your personal data only as long as necessary to provide you with the Spotify Service and for Spotify’s legitimate and essential business purposes, such as:
purpose: service_operation · purpose: legal_compliance
Retention & Deletion · Company practice
The company retains personal data to maintain the performance of the Spotify Service.
maintaining the performance of the Spotify Service
purpose: service_operation
Retention & Deletion · Company practice
The company retains personal data to make data-driven business decisions about new features and offerings.
making data-driven business decisions about new features and offerings
purpose: analytics · purpose: service_operation
Retention & Deletion · Company practice
The company retains personal data to comply with its legal obligations.
complying with our legal obligations
purpose: legal_compliance
Retention & Deletion · Company practice
The company retains personal data for resolving disputes.
resolving disputes
purpose: legal_compliance
Retention & Deletion · User right or choice
Users have the right to request that the company delete certain personal data, with more information available in Section 2 of the policy.
It’s your right to request that we delete certain of your personal data.
Retention & Deletion · User right or choice
Users can directly delete certain personal data from the Spotify Service, such as editing or deleting their profile picture.
You can also delete certain personal data directly from the Spotify Service: for example, you can edit or delete your profile picture.
data: content
Retention & Deletion · Company practice
For personal data that users can see and update themselves, the company keeps the information for as long as the user chooses, unless specific limited purposes apply.
Where users are able to see and update the personal data themselves, we keep the information for as long as the user chooses unless one of the limited purposes described below applies.
Retention & Deletion · Company practice
The company has set specific retention periods for some data, causing it to expire after a certain time, such as search query data being deleted after 90 days.
Subject to other applicable retention rules listed in this Section 6, we have set certain retention periods so that data expires after a specific period of time. For example, personal data you may input as part of search queries is deleted after 90 days.
data: browsing
Retention & Deletion · Company practice
Spotify keeps certain data, such as your username, profile information, and streaming history, until your account is deleted. This data is used for features like retrospective playlists and personalized recommendations.
We keep some data until your Spotify account is deleted. Examples of this include your Spotify username and profile information. We also keep streaming history for the life of an account, for example, to provide retrospective playlists that users enjoy and personalized recommendations that take listening habits into account (for example, Your Time Capsule or Your Summer Rewind). When your Spotify account is deleted, this category of data is deleted or de-identified.
data: identifiers · data: content · purpose: personalization · purpose: service_operation