{"id":342,"date":"2022-12-03T21:50:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T02:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.improvely.com\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2022-12-03T21:51:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T02:51:04","slug":"an-update-to-the-data-retention-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.improvely.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/03\/an-update-to-the-data-retention-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"An update to the data retention policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Starting in 2023, to better align our policies with global privacy and data protection regulations, we will begin to prune very old data from Improvely projects. While we have advertised a limited data retention policy for several years (of 12 months or 24 months depending on plan), that limit has not been enforced in the past. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting on January 1st, 2023, we will perform a soft rollout of this policy by limiting the earliest selectable date in reports and dashboards to no older than 24 months (2 years) prior to the current date. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting on February 1st, 2023, we will begin automatically deleting data older than 24 months (2 years) from Improvely projects on a routine basis. This means visits, conversions and other activity older than 2 years will not be visible in reports, dashboards and visitor profiles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any questions about this policy, or a business case that requires access to website usage data that&#8217;s more than 2 years old, please feel free to reach out to our support team at <a href=\"mailto:hello@improvely.com\">hello@improvely.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting in 2023, to better align our policies with global privacy and data protection regulations, we will begin to prune very old data from Improvely projects. While we have advertised a limited data retention policy for several years (of 12 months or 24 months depending on plan), that limit has not been enforced in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.improvely.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.improvely.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.improvely.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.improvely.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.improvely.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.improvely.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/www.improvely.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.improvely.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.improvely.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.improvely.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}