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# Restrict Data Processing for NPSP

Find out more about how to restrict data processing.

- **[Restrict Data Processing](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.npsp_restrict_data_processing.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    To comply with certain data protection and privacy regulations, you may be required to restrict certain of your constituents' data within Salesforce, including for NPSP.

## Restrict Data Processing

To comply with certain data protection and privacy regulations, you may be required to restrict certain of your constituents' data within Salesforce, including for NPSP.

We offer the following examples of common requests and considerations to help you plan how best to honor constituent requests around restrictions of data processing. These are only suggestions for your review, and not guaranteed steps for ensuring compliance with any legal rule.

Keep in mind that addressing constituent requests, including those provided for under the GDPR, can be challenging. A one-size-fits-all strategy may not always work, and you may need to adjust your approach when balancing organizational needs and legal obligations. For example, if exporting personal data to satisfy a GDPR data portability request may violate someone else’s rights, you might consider narrowing the fields in scope rather than exporting all data. If deleting personal data to satisfy a GDPR erasure request may conflict with other requirements around record preservation, you might consider anonymizing certain fields rather than wholesale deletion.

As always, there are pros and cons to each approach, including legal and business impacts and risks, and you are responsible for your own compliance obligations in your use of the Salesforce Services and Salesforce.org applications. You should work with your advisors, including legal counsel, to determine whether you are covered under a legal requirement, and come up with a compliance plan that’s best for your organization.

Salesforce resources:

- [Restriction of Processing: Restrict How to Process Personal Data](https://help.salesforce.com/articleview?id=restriction_of_processing.htm&type=5)
- [Export Backup Data](https://help.salesforce.com/articleview?id=admin_exportdata.htm&type=5)
- [Export results of SOQL query from workbench](https://help.salesforce.com/articleview?id=000205697&type=1)
- [Export Data with Data Loader](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.208.0.dataloader.meta/dataloader/exporting_data.htm)

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Important Remember to review both Salesforce Platform documentation AND Salesforce.org product-specific documentation. In addition to the information in this table, review:

- [Restrict Data Processing for Sales Cloud](https://help.salesforce.com/articleview?id=restriction_of_processing_sales.htm&type=5)
- [Restrict Data Processing for Salesforce Platform](https://help.salesforce.com/articleview?id=restriction_of_processing_platform.htm&type=5)

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              <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d76667e147">Common Constituent Request</th>
              <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d76667e150">Actions to Consider</th>
              <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d76667e153">Things to Consider</th>
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              <td data-label="Common Constituent Request" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d76667e147 ">
                <p>A constituent reported that the personal
                  data you have on file for her is inaccurate. </p>
                <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Because of those errors, she wants you to stop processing her
                  data until you’ve verified the data’s accuracy.</p>
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              <td data-label="Actions to Consider" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d76667e150 ">
                <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/articleview?id=exporting_data.htm&amp;type=5&amp;language=en_us" target="_blank">Export Data</a>
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              <td data-label="Things to Consider" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d76667e153 ">
                <p>Export the constituent's data to retain it.
                  Then, delete her data from Salesforce.</p>
                <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Work with your constituent to verify the
                  data’s accuracy. Then, get her approval to resume processing her
                  data.</p>
              </td>

            </tr>
            <tr class="">
              <td data-label="Common Constituent Request" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d76667e147 ">A donor has stopped all charitable giving.
                You no longer need the data but the donor has asked that you keep
                his data because he’s involved in a legal proceeding that might
                require the data, but requested you stop all processing of the
                data.</td>

              <td data-label="Actions to Consider" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d76667e150 ">
                <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/articleview?id=exporting_data.htm&amp;type=5&amp;language=en_us" target="_blank">Export Data</a>
              </td>

              <td data-label="Things to Consider" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d76667e153 ">
                <p>Export the donor's data to retain it. Then,
                  delete his data from Salesforce.</p>
                <p style="margin-bottom:0;"><strong>NOTE</strong>: In order to preserve
                  donation history, consider assigning Opportunities to an
                  anonymous or placeholder Account.</p>
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              <td data-label="Common Constituent Request" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d76667e147 ">A constituent has requested that you keep
                his data on file but does not want you to profile him or analyze the
                data in any way.</td>

              <td data-label="Actions to Consider" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d76667e150 ">
                <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/articleview?id=exporting_data.htm&amp;type=5&amp;language=en_us" target="_blank">Export Data</a>
              </td>

              <td data-label="Things to Consider" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d76667e153 ">
                <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Export the constituent's data to retain it.
                  Then, delete his data from Salesforce.</p>
              </td>

            </tr>
          </tbody>
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