UK GDPR Article 5(1)(e): storage limitation (UK GDPR, Art. 5(1)(e))
Personal data may stay in identifiable form only as long as its purpose needs. When a company stops trading, most of the purposes behind its customer and staff data end with it.
Dated 31 Oct 2026Source checked 31 Oct 2026Basis: primary text
Selling a company's data? This is one of the rules a sale has to meet, and the guide beside the button reads it in plain words.
- No data upload
- About two minutes
- No email needed
In the source's own words
“(e) kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed”
Where it was read
Figures it counts in
It is shown on its own, not counted into a figure.
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