Delete shoppers’ personal data when it's necessary to comply with various data
protection and privacy regulations. We give you examples of common requests and things to
consider. That way, you can determine a plan of action for complying with the regulations that
apply to you.
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Data protection and privacy regulations can require you to delete customers’ personal data
when customers request it, or when it’s no longer necessary to keep. We’ve listed a few of the
regulations that are important to many companies collecting and processing their customers’
data.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), European Union
Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), Japan
Privacy Act, Australia
Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), Canada
If you have customers or users who want the data that you’ve collected on them deleted,
review these common requests and their related procedures.
Common Customer Request
Actions to Consider
Things to Consider
A consumer wants my business to delete her personal data.
Delete personal data from the customer’s contact record.
Delete the customer data from all Data Cloud profiles.
Consider the time frame for deleting copies of the data from source systems.
If you’ve stored the customer’s data in other areas of Salesforce, delete that
data too.
If the customer data is stored in external systems, ask those data vendors to
remove the data.
My customer has requested their personal data be deleted. I store customer data
in Marketing Cloud Engagement and use the Marketing Cloud Connector to ingest data
into Data Cloud.
Submit data deletion requests first to Data Cloud. After 48 hours, submit data
deletion requests to Marketing Cloud Engagement. This cadence prevents the
reintroduction of marketing subscribers into Data Cloud.
Note It can take up to 90
days to process your request. In the interim, some records submitted for deletion
remain visible.
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