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Privacy Notice (Right to be informed)

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  1. Introduction
  2. Why we use your personal information
  3. What you can do with your information
  4. Who do we share your information with
  5. How do we protect your information?
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  7. Where can I get advice?
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How long do we keep your personal information?

There’s often a legal reason for keeping your personal information for a set period of time, we try to include all of these in our retention schedule.

View the latest Retention Schedule

For each service the schedule lists for how long your information may be kept. This ranges from months for some records to decades for more sensitive records.

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