Retention & Deletion · Company commitment
After you cancel, Hugging Face will try to delete your information and own-Repository Content within 90 days
Upon cancellation of the Account, Hugging Face will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete the user's information and the Content of the user's own Repositories, public or private, within 90 days. It will not delete Content the user contributed to other Users' Repositories, or copies made by Hugging Face or other Users. The next paragraph reserves the right to retain information for legal or regulatory compliance and through standard archiving, recovery and back-up processes.
Details
- When
- within 90 days
Supporting quotations
Upon cancellation of your Account, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete your information and Content of your own Repositories, whether public or private, within 90 days.
We will not delete the Content that you contributed to other Users
or copies made by us or other Users.
Qualifications & exceptions
- The commitment is to 'commercially reasonable efforts', not a guaranteed deletion.
- Applies on cancellation of the Account; the passage does not say whether termination by Hugging Face triggers the same deletion.
- Public Repositories' licenses to other Users are described as perpetual and irrevocable in the Content section, and copies made by other Users are expressly not deleted.
Not stated here
- 'Your information' and 'Content of your own Repositories' could be read as one object or two; the exact scope of non-Repository account information deleted is not clear.
- Whether termination by Hugging Face triggers the 90-day deletion effort is not stated.
Cross-references
- narrowed by (model-proposed): Hugging Face may keep your information for legal needs, backups and the Privacy Policy — The right to retain information for legal compliance, back-up and the Privacy Policy narrows the commitment to try to delete information within 90 days of cancellation.