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Data Retention

Delete on schedule, and prove it

The Act requires erasure once the purpose is served. Retention is therefore not a storage cost question, it is a legal obligation with a deadline. Define the window once, and let the platform enforce and evidence it.

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Data Retention

Section 8(7) · Response

  • Purpose-based windows
  • Expiry alerts
  • Verified deletion
  • Legal hold
AutomatedDeletion runs
Per systemProof of erasure
0Silent overruns
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What Data Retention does

Four capabilities that together close this obligation — and feed the same audit log every other module writes to.

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  • Purpose-based windows

    Retention defined per purpose, not per table, matching how the Act actually reasons.

  • Expiry alerts

    Warnings before a window closes, so deletion is planned rather than panicked.

  • Verified deletion

    Deletion executes through connectors and returns a confirmation record per system.

  • Legal hold

    Litigation and statutory holds override deletion, with the override itself logged.

  • Statutory reconciliation

    Model RBI, clinical or tax retention against erasure rights field by field, rather than picking one and hoping.

  • Deletion dry-run

    See exactly what a scheduled deletion would remove before it runs.

From zero to live data retention

  1. 12 hours

    Define windows

    Retention per purpose, informed by the purposes already in your consent store.

  2. 21 day

    Dry-run the first cycle

    Review what would be deleted; adjust before anything is removed.

  3. 35 min

    Turn on the schedule

    Deletion runs on cadence and returns a confirmation per system.

What changes on day one

Without Data Retention

  • Data is kept forever because deleting it feels risky
  • Nobody can prove a deletion actually happened
  • Statutory retention is used to justify keeping everything

With Data Retention

  • Windows are defined per purpose and enforced
  • Every deletion returns proof per system
  • Legal holds are explicit and logged

Common questions

Then you keep it — but only the fields the law names, and only for as long as it names. Purpose-level retention makes that distinction enforceable.

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