Privacy Notice

Retention & Deletion · User right or choice

You can ask for deletion, but T-Mobile often keeps some data for service, security and legal reasons

You may ask T-Mobile to delete your personal data. T-Mobile notes that in many situations it must keep some of your personal data for its business purposes, such as providing service to you, detecting security problems or complying with its legal obligations.

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Deletion. You may request that we delete your personal data.

Note that in many situations we must keep some of your personal data for our business purposes, like providing service to you, detecting security problems, or complying with our legal obligations.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Deletion can be partial: T-Mobile may keep some data for business purposes, security and legal obligations.
• Like every listed choice, this may not apply in every circumstance: T-Mobile says it may limit or deny a request where the law allows or requires it, or if it cannot verify who you are.

Not stated here

• Which data is kept after a deletion request, and for how long, is not specified.

Cross-references

• qualifies (model-proposed): Data is kept as long as needed for the notice’s purposes, or longer where law requires or allows; no periods given — qualifies: The deletion right states that T-Mobile must keep some data for business purposes, security and legal obligations, consistent with the retention section’s allowance for longer retention where law requires or allows.

Retention & Deletion · Company practice

Data is kept as long as needed for the notice’s purposes, or longer where law requires or allows; no periods given

T-Mobile says it strives to keep your personal data only as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes in the notice, unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law. To decide how long to keep data it considers things like the amount, nature and sensitivity of the data; the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure; the purposes for which it got the data; whether it can achieve those purposes in other ways; and applicable legal, accounting or reporting requirements.

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We strive to keep your personal data for only as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this notice unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law.

To decide how long to keep personal data, we consider things like:

The amount, nature, and sensitivity of the data.

The potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the data.

The purposes for which we obtained the data.

Whether we can achieve those purposes through other means.

Applicable legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Qualifications & exceptions

• "Strive" states an aim, not a fixed commitment; longer retention is allowed where law requires or merely allows it.

Not stated here

• No retention periods are given for any category of data.