The Powerfleet Data Retention Policy provides surety of what data is available and for how long it is retained.
This is important to support the need for data privacy compliance and legal proceedings. All data is permanently deleted according to the retention schedule below and cannot be accessed, even upon request.
| Data type | Standard Retention period | Notes |
| On-Road IoT telematics data (i.e. driver, vehicle, location and core event data) |
5 years
Monthly deletion cycle |
This includes trips, positions, and recorded events displayed in On-Road IoT in Historical Tracking, Activity Timeline, Assets and Driver details, Integrate Services. A custom retention period of 1 month's data, as well as month-to-date, is possible on request via a service request using the Data Retention Category. |
| Diagnostic events and “tick” events |
1 month
Monthly deletion cycle |
Diagnostic events, “tick” events, and events implemented for short-term telemetry/monitoring purposes (e.g. temperature probe readings) are retained for a minimum of 1 month. |
| Insight Reports |
13 months
Monthly deletion cycle |
Detailed data in the data warehouse is used in Insight Reports and Insight Agility. A custom retention period of 1 month, as well as month-to-date, is possible on request via a service request using the Data Retention Category. |
| Insight Dashboards and Self Service Analytics |
5 years
Monthly deletion cycle |
Aggregated data in the Data Lake is the data that is presented in our embedded dashboards and available through the PowerBI adapter (self-service analytics). This solution is not available to customers who have a custom retention policy of 1 month plus month to date for On-Road IoT telematics data and Insight reports. |
| Video data |
8 months
Daily deletion cycle |
Can be reduced to a minimum of 1 month on request via Zendesk using the Data Retention Category. |
| Hours of service data |
6 months
Daily deletion cycle |
US: 6 months available in On-Road IoT. EU 3D files: 13 months. Rest-of-world: 13 months. |
| Tacho (second by second data) |
6 months
Monthly deletion cycle |
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| Journey management data |
13 months
Monthly deletion cycle |
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| Notifications |
1 month
Daily deletion cycle |