Fair enough. At this point all we have is conjecture. Their policies seem congruent with my view, and it's also how I would design a system like this. On the ot

Fair enough. At this point all we have is conjecture. Their policies seem congruent with my view, and it's also how I would design a system like this. On the other hand, you may be right that this is data they retain forever. There is no way to know for sure unless someone wants to do an experiment. It would be pretty easy to conduct: do takeout to find a purchase in the history, delete emails associated with the specific purchase, empty the trash, wait sixty days, then takeout again and check if the purchase is gone. But we won't find out today.