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Data-Retention Policy

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Website-request information is ordinarily retained for up to one year unless an actual job, account, dispute, insurance matter, employment process, safety issue, fraud concern, or legal duty requires a different period. That one-year standard is not a universal maximum for towing, storage, credit, tax, payment, custody, personnel, insurer, litigation, or government records. The applicable record category, purpose, agreement, jurisdiction, and current law determine the final schedule.

Policy terms and decision points

01

Website inquiries and unassigned requests

Email drafts are created on the user's device and become company records only if the user sends them or otherwise communicates the information. An ordinary website service, commercial, career-interest, or feedback inquiry may be retained for up to one year to respond, document status, investigate misuse, correct records, or address a complaint, unless it becomes part of another record category or an earlier deletion is appropriate.

02

Actual service, billing, and account records

A completed or attempted assignment may create dispatch, authorization, estimate, location, vehicle, condition, photograph, communication, route, destination, invoice, payment, cancellation, complaint, insurance, and safety records. A commercial or credit process may create application, decision, agreement, requester, invoice, payment, dispute, suspension, and closure records. Those records can require longer retention than a website inquiry.

03

Custody, storage, release, and statutory records

Custody and release records can include ownership or lien authority, notices, tow and storage facts, agency records, personal property, condition, charges, payment, release, disposition, and correspondence. Missouri law specifies multi-year recordkeeping for certain covered abandoned-property situations; that requirement is not generalized to every voluntary tow or Kansas record, and a longer lawful hold may apply to a particular vehicle.

04

Employment, insurance, tax, and legal matters

General career interest should not contain unnecessary sensitive data. A future real application, employment record, insurance matter, tax or accounting record, claim, subpoena, investigation, court case, regulatory matter, or legal hold may have its own access and retention period. Relevant records should not be destroyed merely because the ordinary website-request period expires.

05

Access, correction, deletion, and exceptions

A person may call or email to ask about information they submitted and request correction or deletion. Tommy's may reasonably verify identity and authority, identify the applicable record, correct inaccurate data, and explain when deletion is limited by another person's rights, contract, payment, custody, insurance, fraud prevention, safety, backup integrity, legal hold, law, or inability to locate the record from the information supplied.

06

Security, review, and disposal

Records should be classified, access-limited, protected according to sensitivity, reviewed against the schedule, and disposed of securely when no business or legal need remains. Service providers should receive only the access and duration reasonably needed for their function. Backups and archives may follow controlled overwrite or destruction cycles rather than immediate record-by-record deletion.

Company controls

  • Collect and retain only information reasonably connected to a request, service, account, payment, custody, release, employment, safety, dispute, insurance, fraud-prevention, or legal purpose.
  • Apply the ordinary one-year website-request standard only to that record category and preserve longer records when an actual job, agreement, statute, dispute, insurer, tax, investigation, or legal duty requires it.
  • Limit access according to role and sensitivity and avoid placing Social Security, full financial-account, payment-card, government-ID, password, authentication-code, or medical information in ordinary email records.
  • Pause ordinary deletion for a documented complaint, claim, chargeback, insurer request, fraud concern, subpoena, agency matter, litigation, court order, or other legal hold when appropriate.
  • Use reasonable identity and authority checks before disclosing, correcting, exporting, or deleting information associated with a vehicle, account, applicant, customer, lienholder, or another person.
  • Review the retention schedule when systems, services, vendors, jurisdictions, contracts, laws, or business needs materially change.

Important limits

  • This page does not promise immediate deletion, a one-year maximum for every record, complete removal from every lawful backup, or destruction while a valid hold or duty applies.
  • It does not determine a specific statutory, tax, employment, credit, insurance, towing, storage, payment, court, agency, or limitation period for an unidentified record.
  • A deletion or correction request does not cancel a tow, reverse a payment, release a vehicle, resolve a dispute, waive a lien, change an insurer or bank deadline, or decide legal rights.
  • Third-party providers, agencies, insurers, banks, email systems, telephone carriers, and other custodians control their own independent records under their own duties and terms.

Questions drivers ask

How long is a website request kept?

Ordinarily up to one year, unless it becomes part of an actual job, account, dispute, insurance matter, employment process, safety issue, fraud concern, or legal duty that requires a different period.

Are all towing records deleted after one year?

No. Service, payment, custody, storage, release, commercial-credit, insurance, tax, dispute, and legal records may have different business, contract, statutory, or hold periods. Missouri law, for example, specifies three-year records for certain covered abandoned-property situations.

Can I request correction or deletion?

Yes. Call or email with enough information to locate the record. Identity or authority may need verification, and correction or deletion can be limited by another person's rights, contract, payment, custody, insurance, safety, fraud prevention, legal hold, or law.

Does deleting a website record cancel my service or payment?

No. Cancellation, payment, refund, custody, release, dispute, insurance, and legal processes have separate confirmation and record requirements. Use the relevant live channel and policy.

Official and primary resources

FTC: Protecting Personal Information

Official guidance recommends keeping sensitive information only as long as necessary, using a written retention policy, limiting access, securing records, and disposing of them appropriately.

CFPB: Regulation B record retention

Official current record-preservation rules that can apply differently to consumer credit, business credit, trade credit, existing accounts, and enforcement matters.

External resources are provided for convenience. Tommy's is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of those organizations.

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