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Retention & Deletion · Company practice

Retention: kept as reasonably necessary, based on service needs and legal requirements; no fixed periods stated

Starbucks says it stores information as reasonably necessary and proportionate to accomplish the purposes identified in the Notice, based on criteria such as how long it needs the information to provide services to you and to meet legal requirements, including record retention, resolving disputes and enforcing its agreements. It says its retention of your information is governed by applicable law. The section gives criteria, not specific retention periods.

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Starbucks stores information as reasonably necessary and proportionate to accomplish the purposes identified in this Notice based on criteria such as the length of time we need to provide the services to you, and to meet legal requirements, including record retention, resolving disputes, and enforcing our agreements.
Our retention of your information is governed by applicable law.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Retention is "as reasonably necessary and proportionate" to the stated purposes
  • Criteria named: time needed to provide services, legal requirements, record retention, resolving disputes, enforcing agreements
  • Retention is described as governed by applicable law

Not stated here

  • No specific retention periods are given for any category of information; the EEA section (15(c)) refers to "our specified retention periods", but this section does not state any

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Retention & Deletion · User right or choice

Right to request deletion of information collected from you, subject to exceptions

You may have the right to ask Starbucks to delete information it collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. The Notice does not list the exceptions in this section.

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You may have the right to request that we delete information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Worded "may have the right"
  • Applies to information collected from you and retained
  • Subject to "certain exceptions"

Not stated here

  • The exceptions to deletion are not listed in this section

Retention & Deletion · Company practice

EEA retention: kept only as long as needed or required, and longer to honor requests or meet legal duties

For the EEA, Starbucks says that, as a general rule, it keeps data only as long as needed to complete the purpose for which it was collected or as required by law. It may need to keep data longer than its "specified retention periods" to honor your requests, including to keep you opted out of marketing emails, or to comply with legal, regulatory, accounting or other obligations.

Supporting quotations

as a general rule, we keep your data for only as long as it is needed to complete the purpose for which it was collected or as required by law
We may need to keep your data for longer than our specified retention periods to honor your requests, including to continue keeping you opted out of marketing emails, or to comply with legal, regulatory, accounting or other obligations.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Stated as a "general rule" with exceptions for honoring requests and legal duties

Not stated here

  • The section refers to "specified retention periods", but the Retention section (8) does not state specific periods