--- schema_version: "1" id: 3b64759364a0213588078f9e992e47783a69a7429cbb3bf2a8519240c636301a title: Data Deletion for Sales Cloud collection: admin version: current locale: en-us portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/admin/current/en-us/xcloud/264-0-0/data_deletion_sales.md canonical_url: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.data_deletion_sales.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 source_site: help.salesforce.com content_type: documentation content_hash: be592a38949a5fcf28329245cf409392b3910ba49ca219dacd5022b94470658d description: Delete customers’ personal data when it’s necessary to comply with 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 matter to you. products: - Security - Cross Cloud release: "264" --- # Data Deletion for Sales Cloud Delete customers’ personal data when it’s necessary to comply with 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 matter to you. ### Required Editions

Available in: All Editions

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 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 client of ours moved out of the country, where we’re not licensed to do business. So he wants us to purge his data.	Delete Records	Delete these records and fields for your client. Contact Tasks Calendar events Any personal data in unindexed, free-text fields A way to search for personal data in unindexed fields is to export the data, and then search for the user’s information. Voicemail messages If you subscribe to Salesforce CPQ, consider deleting these records if they include your customer’s personal data. Quotes Contracts Orders Invoices
My customer decided to do business with our competitor instead. She asked that we delete her personal data.	Delete Records	In addition to deleting your customer’s contact or lead record, consider deleting: Any personal data in unindexed, free-text fields A way to search for personal data in unindexed fields is to export all Salesforce data, and then search for the customer’s information. Voicemail messages Calendar events And if you maintain a sandbox environment, refresh the environment afterward to remove that customer’s data from it. If you use Salesforce Inbox, delete the contact from Salesforce Inbox, and from any other email system you use, such as Outlook or Gmail.
My customer died. The company he worked for requested that we remove him from our systems.	Delete Records
A prospect of mine doesn’t want us to store her email address and phone number.	Manage Leads	Delete any fields that store your prospect’s email address and phone number. Start with the lead record. If you’ve created other records or activities related to your prospect, make sure that you remove her email address and phone number from those records too. If you subscribe to Sales Cloud Einstein, deleting fields in lead records doesn’t fully delete their content throughout the system. Consider deleting the lead record altogether, which deletes the record and its contents entirely. Then, create another lead record for your prospect, but without any email addresses and phone numbers.
A sales rep with my firm no longer works with us. She wants us to remove all her personal information from Salesforce.	Delete Users	Consider deleting: Any personal data in unindexed, free-text fields A way to search for personal data in unindexed fields is to export the data, and then search for the user’s information. Voicemail messages Calendar events We store notifications and any personal data in them for 90 days. Keep in mind that editing personal data in user records doesn’t change the content that appears in those notifications. Salesforce deletes notifications older than 90 days.
Sometimes, records related to the data that customers want us to delete links to workflows and other data that we want to retain. How do I avoid disrupting those workflows and creating other problems when I delete associated data?	Manage Contacts	Check with your company’s legal counsel on options for making personal data in records obscure instead of deleting the records altogether. A way to make personal data obscure is to change details in the customer’s contact record. So in the record, you’d delete data in all its fields, except for the Account and Last Name fields, which are required. And then for the Last Name field, you’d replace the customer’s name with something like `Deleted Contact` or `Forgotten Contact`.
For Salesforce Inbox or Einstein Activity Capture, I’d like to delete email and events related to a specific customer.	Delete Email and Events Logged by Einstein Activity Capture and Salesforce Inbox Delete Records	If your customer doesn’t want your company to keep any of her information, delete the customer’s personal information from: Salesforce Inbox Any other email system you use, such as Outlook or Gmail Any Salesforce records