"retain records" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
You could use it to refer to the act of keeping records or documents in a filing system. For example: "It is important for businesses to retain records of their financial activities."
It also wants the Internet companies to retain records about whom their users exchange e-mail with, but not the contents of e-mail messages, the executives said.
The Home Office argued that we need a new law to make these providers retain records – including emails and phone calls – to provide to the police and MI5.
The system relies on records kept by the state on handgun purchases, but the state does not retain records of most rifle and shotgun purchases.
To ensure that they do not go beyond lawful spending limits, students must retain records related to all travel transactions on the island for five years.
New York State passed legislation last year requiring that metal dealers ask scrap sellers for government-issued photo identification and retain records of transactions for at least two years.
In 2001 the law changed to allow the database to retain records of people who, having been arrested merely on suspicion of committing an offence, had subsequently either not been charged or had been acquitted.
Only the mixing service, if it retains records, could connect the incoming and outgoing currency.
The motion charges the city with violating the Handschu agreement by systematically retaining records of conversations in public places that do not pertain to "potential unlawful activity".
Later in May, the Justice Department convened a group of Internet companies and asked if they would consider retaining records of user activities — like senders and recipients of e-mail, and Web sites visited — for as long as two years.
The office wrote: "We are not retaining records simply because they are 'embarrassing' or because they shed a particular light on the past".
This was a strategy that had to fail in the modern era, which retained records of their statements and statements of policy makers about the cliff and about their claim that high debt led to low growth.
