Spotify Privacy Policy

Retention & Deletion · Company commitment

Age Check Data Deletion

All Age Check Data collected by Spotify is deleted immediately after the age verification process is completed.

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All Age Check Data is deleted immediately after the Age Check.

Retention & Deletion · Company practice

Data Retention Period

The company retains personal data only for as long as necessary to provide the Spotify Service and for its legitimate and essential business purposes.

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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:

Qualifications & exceptions

• only as long as necessary

purpose: service_operation · purpose: legal_compliance

Retention & Deletion · Company practice

Retention for Service Performance

The company retains personal data to maintain the performance of the Spotify Service.

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maintaining the performance of the Spotify Service

purpose: service_operation

Retention & Deletion · Company practice

Retention for Business Decisions

The company retains personal data to make data-driven business decisions about new features and offerings.

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making data-driven business decisions about new features and offerings

purpose: analytics · purpose: service_operation

Retention & Deletion · Company practice

Retention for Legal Obligations

The company retains personal data to comply with its legal obligations.

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complying with our legal obligations

purpose: legal_compliance

Retention & Deletion · Company practice

Retention for Dispute Resolution

The company retains personal data for resolving disputes.

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resolving disputes

purpose: legal_compliance

Retention & Deletion · User right or choice

User Right to Request Deletion

Users have the right to request that the company delete certain personal data, with more information available in Section 2 of the policy.

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It’s your right to request that we delete certain of your personal data.

Qualifications & exceptions

• certain of your personal data

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• narrows (model-proposed): Data Retention Period — User's right to request deletion can shorten the data retention period

Retention & Deletion · User right or choice

User Deletion of Profile Data

Users can directly delete certain personal data from the Spotify Service, such as editing or deleting their profile picture.

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You can also delete certain personal data directly from the Spotify Service: for example, you can edit or delete your profile picture.

data: content

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• narrows (model-proposed): Data Retention Period — User deletion of profile data can shorten the data retention period

Retention & Deletion · Company practice

Retention of User-Managed Data

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.

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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.

Qualifications & exceptions

• unless one of the limited purposes described below applies

Retention & Deletion · Company practice

Data with Specific Expiration Periods

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.

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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.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Subject to other applicable retention rules listed in this Section 6

data: browsing

Retention & Deletion · Company practice

Data retained until account deletion

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.

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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