Updating Zendesk retention period to align with guidance to Support Operations
Why is this change being made?
Support Team and Privacy discussed setting fixed deletion schedules for free and paid tickets/users in Zendesk, per this Issue. After researching suggested retention timeframes and checking against our contractual obligations, Support and Privacy agreed on the following schedule:
- 3-years from the point of termination of the paid contractual relationship for tickets/users in Zendesk
- 3-years from the point of ticket creation for free users
Thus, this updates the Zendesk ticket retention minimum to 3-years.
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