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Overview

Retention deletes documents on a schedule, so you can meet GDPR and other regulated retention rules without anyone deleting documents by hand. You describe which documents to delete and how long to keep them as policies, and Nobly Insight evaluates those policies on a recurring schedule — deleting what’s eligible either recoverably (soft delete) or permanently (purge).
Retention performs recoverable deletion under a Soft delete policy and irreversible deletion under a Permanent purge policy. Turn it on deliberately: create the first policy disabled, simulate it, review the result, and only then enable it.

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What you can do

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How it works

A document a policy is tracking moves through a short lifecycle: tagged when it first matches, through an optional approval step and a grace period, to deleted (recoverable) or purged (permanent). Until the moment of deletion you can pull it back out — rescue it, exclude it from the policy, or place it on a legal hold.

Retention & deletion guide

The full guide — lifecycle, policies, approvals, legal holds, scheduling, access, and setup.

Administration & governance

Platform-wide audit, permissions, and multi-tenancy that retention reuses.