Principle
Personal data is retained only as long as reasonably necessary for the stated purpose, legal duty, safeguarding, evidence integrity or dispute/security need.
Schedule
The authoritative retention register defines the rule, implementation state and review cadence for each data family.
Deletion/anonymization
At the end of a justified retention period, records are deleted, anonymized or pseudonymized as appropriate unless a documented hold applies.
Legal and integrity holds
Financial, safeguarding, assessment, evidence-integrity, incident and legal-dispute records may be retained beyond optional-profile erasure with a documented reason.
Audits
Retention is periodically reviewed; a fixed number in code is not treated as eternally justified simply because it exists.
Questions or requests
Use the Certifiedge contact, complaints or data-rights route appropriate to the issue. Internal policies do not remove rights or remedies available under applicable law.