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title: Why is there a limited usage period of 5 years despite consent?
description: Learn why Fairpicture content has a 5-year usage limit despite consent, based on GDPR requirements and the right to be forgotten.
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# Why is there a limited usage period of 5 years despite consent?
Every individual captured in your content retains the right to withdraw their consent at any point from the moment the content is taken up to 5 years later.
With this time limit, we are complying with the requirements of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, which is largely in line with the Swiss Data Protection Act. From the perspective of data protection, the restriction of the period of use has the following main reason:
- The circumstances of the photographed/filmed can change dramatically within 5 years and this should be taken into account.
- There is a "right to be forgotten": according to this, the images would also have to be destroyed after 5 years - unless they were of particular historical value.
If consent is obtained again after 5 years, the use of images is possible for another 5 years.
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- [Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)](https://help.fairpicture.org/support/fairconsent-app-and-platform?hsLang=en#frequently-asked-questions-faq)
- [02 Getting Started](https://help.fairpicture.org/support/fairconsent-app-and-platform?hsLang=en#02-getting-started)
- [04 FairConsent Platform](https://help.fairpicture.org/support/fairconsent-app-and-platform?hsLang=en#04-fairconsent-platform)
- [FairConsent App](https://help.fairpicture.org/support/fairconsent-app-and-platform?hsLang=en#fairconsent-app)
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- [What we offer and how we work for creators](https://help.fairpicture.org/support/content-production-creators?hsLang=en#what-we-offer-and-how-we-work-for-creators)
- [Getting started on the platform for visual creators](https://help.fairpicture.org/support/content-production-creators?hsLang=en#getting-started-on-the-platform-for-visual-creators)
- [Project organisation](https://help.fairpicture.org/support/content-production-creators?hsLang=en#project-organisation)
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- [Starting a project](https://help.fairpicture.org/support/content-production-clients?hsLang=en#starting-a-project)
- [Project organisation](https://help.fairpicture.org/support/content-production-clients?hsLang=en#project-organisation)
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- [Project brief](https://help.fairpicture.org/support/content-production-clients?hsLang=en#project-brief)
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