Description
All information you need to confidently decide how long to store your data globally (at this moment 304 countries and states and over 295,557 retention periods). The Global data retention subscription is up to date and updated frequently. Combine various country schedules to establish your global data retention policy. All in a handy Excel format. This way, you can adjust, add or export elements to share with your IT or business. Also, you will be able to combine different country schedules. For example, you could merge all ‘accounts and legal records’ data retention periods from your country schedules into one Excel.
Our global data retention subscription includes retention periods from the 304 countries and states below for direct download:
- Albania
- Algeria
- American Samoa
- Andorra
- Angola
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Aruba
- Austria
- Australia
- Capital Territory
- New South Wales
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria
- Western Australia
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- The Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Brussels
- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Belize
- Benin
- Bermuda
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Brunei Darussalam
- British Virgin Islands
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Manitoba
- New Brunswick
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Northwest Territories
- Nova Scotia
- Nunavut
- Ontario
- Prince Edward Island
- Quebec
- Saskatchewan
- Yukon
- Cape Verde
- Cayman Islands
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Congo
- Congo, Democratic Republic
- Cook Islands
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Curaçao
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Estonia
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- European Union
- Faroe Islands
- Fiji
- Finland
- France
- Georgia
- Germany
- Baden-Württemberg
- Bavaria
- Berlin
- Hamburg
- Hesse
- Lower Saxony
- North Rhine-Westphalia
- Ghana
- Gibraltar
- Greece
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- Guam
- Guatemala
- Guernsey (including Alderney, Bailiwick of Guernsey, and Sark)
- Guinea-Bissau
- Hong Kong
- Haiti
- Hungary
- Honduras
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran, Islamic Republic Of
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Israel
- Isle of Man
- Italy
- Ivory Coast
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jersey
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macau
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Martinique
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Micronesia, Federated States Of
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Montserrat
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nauru
- the Netherlands
- Nepal
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- Niue
- North Macedonia
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Norway
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Qatar
- Romania
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Sint Maarten
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Aargau
- Bern
- Canton of Zug
- Geneva
- Lucerne
- Vaud
- Zurich
- Syrian Arab Republic
- Taiwan (R.O.C.)
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Timor – Leste
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates (including DIFC)
- Abu Dhabi
- Dubai Emirate
- Dubai Creative Cluster
- United Kingdom
- Northern Ireland
- Scotland
- Wales
- United States
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Puerto Rico
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- Washington DC
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
- United States Virgin Islands
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
With many more to follow – See our roadmap
The Global data retention subscription includes amongst other things the following data retention periods (this can differ per country):
- Accounts and legal
- Tax
- HR
- IT
- Health and safety
- Real estate
- Environmental
- Transport
- Personal data and privacy
- Agriculture industry
- Aviation industry
- Construction service industry
- Defense and dual use industry
- Financial services industry
- Energy services industry
- Financial services industry
- Food industry
- Healthcare services industry
- Hospitality services industry
- Leisure industry
- Manufacturing industry
- Media Industry
- Mining and forestry industry
- Professional services industry
- Real estate services industry
- Retail industry
- Telecommunications industry
- Veterinary industry
If you subscribe to the global data retention subscription, you will be able to download all retention schedules directly and again if you ever misplace it.
About our retention schedules and subscriptions
filerskeepers helps companies decide which retention period to choose per system or document category. We provide our customers with insight into the legal maximum and minimum retention periods for each country relevant to them. This helps companies to justify why they are storing data and for how long.
filerskeepers believes that companies should be able to know all retention periods that apply to them. It is our goal to make sure you will be up to date about the latest data retention periods. At any time. We help you with the information you need to confidently decide how long to store your data. Globally. In a way that allows you to actually implement retention periods into your IT-systems. That is why we were very happy when the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) wrote a wonderful article about our ambitions. You can read it here.
