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Updating Zendesk retention period to align with guidance to Support Operations

Eugene McCrann requested to merge emccrann-master-patch-60662 into master

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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