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This email is a policy update notification from Slack informing users of the deletion of messages and files older than one year for free workspace subscriptions, effective June 27, 2025. The email is structured with a clear header, detailed policy explanation, important dates, and links to the subscription page, FAQs, and sign-in portals. The tone is formal and informative, emphasizing the need to upgrade to a paid subscription to retain older content and clarifying the consequences of the new policy.

Subject:

Notice: Content older than one year will be deleted from your free workspace starting 27th June 2025

Date sent:

April 29, 2025

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Slack

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padding-top: 20px;color: #434245;width: 100%;-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased; -moz-osx-font-smoothing:grayscale; border: 0; text-align: center; border-collapse: collapse;" class="background_main"><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; padding: 0"><center><table id="body" class="card" style="border: 0; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0 auto; background: white; border-radius: 8px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><tr><td style="width: 546px; vertical-align: top; padding-top: 32px"><div style="max-width: 600px; margin: 0 auto;"><div style="margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 50px; margin-bottom: 72px;" class="lg_margin_left_right xl_margin_bottom"><div style="margin-top: 18px;" class="slack_logo_style"><img width="120" height="36" style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 32px; margin-left: 0px;" src="https://digi-storms.slack.com/x-p6364896165536-6335477467590-8823822968052/img/slack_logo_240.png" alt="Slack logo"></div><h1>Content older than one year will be deleted starting 27th June 2025</h1><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; letter-spacing: -0.2px; margin-bottom: 28px;" class="content_paragraph">This is a notice that starting 27th June 2025, messages and files older than one year will be deleted from your workspace if you remain on the free Slack subscription. To retain access to content older than a year, your workspace needs to be on a Slack paid subscription. Slack subscriptions can be reviewed on our <a href="https://slack.com/pricing">subscriptions page</a>.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; letter-spacing: -0.2px; margin-bottom: 28px;" class="content_paragraph">If your team chooses to upgrade to a paid subscription after the policy goes into effect, you will not be able to recover any contentthat is deleted under our new policy.<h4><strong>Message and file storage policy for free workspaces</strong></h4></p><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; letter-spacing: -0.2px; margin-bottom: 28px;" class="content_paragraph">In June 2024, we <a href="https://slack.com/help/articles/29414264463635">changed our policy</a> for free workspace message and file storage. Content in free workspaces – including messages, files and other content – that is older than a year will be deleted. Free workspaces will continue to have full access to the past 90 days of message history and file storage.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; letter-spacing: -0.2px; margin-bottom: 28px;" class="content_paragraph">This change does not impact workspaces on other Slack subscriptions, such as Slack Pro.</p><table style="margin: 0 auto; width: 100%;"><tr><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0; padding-top: 20px; width: 100%; margin: 0 auto;"><div style="color: #1D1C1D; text-align: left; width: 100%; font-size: 15px;"><table style="display: inline-table; vertical-align: top; width: 100%; border: 0px; border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody class="sm_full_width"><tr class="sm_full_width" style="border-top: 1px solid #E1E1E4;"><td class="sm_full_width"><table class="sm_full_width" style="display: inline-table; width: 434px; max-width: 100%; border: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; width: 75%"><tr><td style="width: 38px; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 20px; width: 38px;"><a class="plaintext_ignore" href="https://digi-storms.slack.com/x-p6364896165536-6335477467590-8823822968052/signin" style="height: 38px; width: 38px; min-width: 38px; border-radius: 4px; color: #FFFFFF; font-size: 18px; line-height: 38px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-text-raise: 10px; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; text-decoration: none !important; display: block; background-color: #0576b9; border-radius: 20px;">D</a></td><div class="plaintext_only" style="display: none">Workspace name: Digi Storms</div><td class="sm_auto_width" style="padding-top: 20px; font-size: 15px; width: 378px;"> <strong class="plaintext_ignore">Digi Storms</strong><br/> Workspace URL: digi-storms.slack.com </td></tr></table><table class="sm_full_width" style="text-align: right; display: inline-table; width: auto; vertical-align: top; width: 102px; text-align: right; width: 25%; border: 0px; border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody class="sm_full_width"><tr class="sm_full_width"><td style="width: 100px; padding: 0px;padding-top: 20px;" class="sm_full_width"><div style=""><a href="https://digi-storms.slack.com/x-p6364896165536-6335477467590-8823822968052/signin" class="sm_full_width" style="text-align: center;display: inline-block;width: 100px; border: 1px solid #C7CACD; border-radius: 4px; background-color: #FBFBFA; color: #555459; font-size: 14px; line-height: 40px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none;font-weight: 900;text-transform: uppercase; line-height: 24px; padding: 8px 0; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none !important;">Sign in</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="clear: both;"></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></table><br><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; letter-spacing: -0.2px; margin-bottom: 28px;" class="content_paragraph"><strong>Questions?</strong> <a href="https://slack.com/help/articles/29414264463635">Review our FAQs</a> about this policy or visit our <a href="http://slack.com/pricing">subscriptions page</a> to switch subscriptions.</p></div></div></td></tr></table></center></td></tr><tr><td class="email_footer" style="font-size: 15px;color: #717274;text-align: center;width: 100%;"><center><table style="margin: 20px auto 0; background-color: white; border: 0; text-align: center; 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