25.1 You instruct us to retain Customer Data according to the product functionality, your Workspace settings, these Terms, the DPA and the retention periods below, unless you delete data, request deletion, or otherwise instruct us in a manner supported by the Service and applicable law.
25.2 Customer, job, quote and invoice data is generally kept while the Workspace is active or in Read-Only Mode.
25.3 Inactive or read-only Workspaces are not automatically deleted solely because a trial or subscription has ended, unless we state otherwise, you request deletion, or deletion is required for legal, security, abuse prevention or operational reasons.
25.4 Archive and cancellation are not the same as deletion. A quote, invoice, payment record, payment report, acceptance record, audit record or other retained business record may be archived, cancelled or hidden from active views while still being stored.
25.5 Normal Workspace user actions may not hard-delete retained business records where retention is required or appropriate for accounting, audit, tax, legal, security, support or dispute reasons.
25.6 After a valid deletion request for an Account or Workspace, we will delete or anonymise relevant data within 90 days where legally and technically possible, except for records that must or may be kept longer for legal, tax, accounting, audit, dispute, security, fraud prevention, compliance or legitimate business purposes.
25.7 The following standard retention periods may apply:
(a) customer, job, quote and invoice data:
kept while the Workspace is active or in Read-Only Mode;
(b) invoices, invoice items, quotes, payments, payment reports, quote acceptances and audit-relevant business history:
6 years where retained as part of Workspace history, accounting, audit or legal records;
(c) VAT/accounting-relevant records:
6 years;
(d) files, PDFs and payment proofs:
kept with the corresponding Workspace, job or document data;
(e) email messages and inbound emails:
kept with the corresponding Workspace or job data;
(f) email events and delivery logs:
up to 24 months;
(g) integration and operational event logs:
up to 24 months;
(h) operational task records:
up to 24 months;
(i) audit logs:
6 years for audit-relevant history;
(j) SaaS billing events and billing records:
6 years;
(k) exports:
up to 30 days;
(l) backups:
up to 90 days;
(m) inactive or Read-Only Mode Workspaces:
not automatically deleted solely because the trial or subscription has ended; and
(n) deleted or cancelled accounts:
deleted or anonymised within 90 days except for legal, tax, accounting, audit, dispute, security, fraud prevention and compliance records.
25.8 Backup deletion may occur on the next scheduled backup deletion cycle.
25.9 Backup data may be isolated, protected and not used for ordinary production purposes before deletion.
25.10 Retention periods may be longer where required or permitted by law, court order, regulator, dispute, investigation, security incident, fraud prevention need or legal claim.
25.11 Additional retention terms are set out in our Privacy Policy and DPA.