✓ Independent creative professionals
✓ Small studio client handovers
✓ Bounded final-file releases
— Regulated-data suitability certification
— Legal acceptance or retention advice
— Specialist video proofing
— Household photo archives
Describe two decisions
Retention concerns what your business keeps and why. A delivery window concerns the route available to the recipient. You may need to preserve a private project record after a temporary link closes, or provide a client copy without retaining every draft indefinitely. Determine those obligations through your actual agreements and applicable professional advice, not a generic cloud-storage recommendation.
Avoid accidental promises
A casual phrase such as always available can create expectations your configuration and business cannot support. State the intended access period clearly and explain what the client should retain. A one-time product payment does not eliminate future account, service or maintenance risks. Do not let the apparent permanence of a folder become an unsupported commitment to the client.
Keep cleanup deliberate
Before removing material, consider outstanding work, agreed retention, independent copies and any required records. This guide does not authorize deletion or decide a legally appropriate retention period. Where the obligation is uncertain, resolve it through the responsible process. Do not use storage pressure as a reason to erase project history without understanding its role.
A fictional separation
A studio offers a defined final-download window while retaining a private release record under its own documented policy. The client is told to keep the delivered package in its approved system. Closing the delivery route does not automatically delete the studio’s record, and retaining that record does not imply the client has indefinite online access. The distinction helps both parties understand the practical arrangement.
Put the decision into practice
Keep the client-facing availability note consistent with the actual route while recording internal retention separately. Review both when a project changes ownership or responsibility. A clear distinction makes it easier to answer a later request without improvising a promise that conflicts with your documented business obligations.
Where the safety evidence stops
This guide draws on pCloud service terms, pCloud shared links. Merchant-controlled records describe the provider’s own capabilities, terms or standards; they do not independently validate those claims. These records do not establish independent confirmation of the product claims.
Verify any current price, plan limit, label direction, compatibility rule, or commercial term that would materially change the decision. The dated source ledger shows the underlying records so this conclusion can be checked and updated.
Sources used for this page
These records support the facts and comparisons above. Merchant-controlled records are labelled so you can separate product claims from independent evidence.
- pCloud service terms — Merchant documentation · pcloud.com · Merchant-controlled · checked 2026-09-29
- pCloud shared links — Merchant documentation · help.pcloud.com · Merchant-controlled · checked 2026-09-29