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description: You can use the Salesforce Platform to help you honor your customers’ requests to prepare or package their data. We give you examples of common customer requests and tips. Then you can decide how best to work toward complying with the regulations that apply to your company.
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# Data Access and Export for the Salesforce Platform

You can use the Salesforce Platform to help you honor your customers’ requests to prepare or package their data. We give you examples of common customer requests and tips. Then you can decide how best to work toward complying with the regulations that apply to your company.

### Required Editions

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Some laws require you and your company to let customers take their data with them. We’ve listed a few of the obligations that are important to many companies collecting and processing their customers’ data.

- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), European Union
- Customer Contracts

If you have customers or users who want to take the data that you’ve received from them, review these common requests. We’ve provided links to the procedures related to those requests. You can also review considerations in other sections of this guide for Salesforce products that may use the Salesforce Platform.

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            <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d22102e55">Common Customer Request</th>
            <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d22102e57">Actions to Consider</th>
            <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d22102e59">Things to Consider</th>
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            <td data-label="Common Customer Request" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d22102e55 ">A customer has requested that I export all data associated with their account.
              When I try to export this data, I get blocked. What gives?</td>
            <td data-label="Actions to Consider" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d22102e57 "><a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.enhanced_transaction_security_actions_notifs.htm&amp;type=5&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">Enhanced Transaction Security Actions and
                Notifications</a></td>
            <td data-label="Things to Consider" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d22102e59 ">Some orgs have security policies in place to block unauthorized data export
              events over a certain size. Consider editing the policy’s Apex code to temporarily
              increase the limits on how much data you can export. After you’ve finished your
              task, edit the policy to return it to its previous settings.</td>
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            <td data-label="Common Customer Request" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d22102e55 ">A customer wants to review the account information they’ve given to us, which
              we stored in attachments on their account.</td>
            <td data-label="Actions to Consider" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d22102e57 "><a href="https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=admin_exportdata.htm&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">Export Backup Data from Salesforce</a></td>
            <td data-label="Things to Consider" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d22102e59 ">Salesforce orgs can generate backup files of your data on a weekly basis.
              Consider exporting some data, such as attachments, from these backups.</td>
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            <td data-label="Common Customer Request" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d22102e55 ">A customer wants to export all the data they uploaded to Einstein Vision and
              Language Service.</td>
            <td data-label="Actions to Consider" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d22102e57 ">
              <ul>
                <li><a href="https://metamind.readme.io/docs/get-a-dataset" target="_blank">Get a Dataset (Einstein
                    Vision)</a></li>
                <li><a href="https://metamind.readme.io/docs/get-a-lang-dataset" target="_blank">Get a Dataset (Einstein
                    Language)</a></li>
                <li><a href="https://metamind.readme.io/docs/get-all-examples" target="_blank">Get All Examples (Einstein
                    Vision)</a></li>
                <li><a href="https://metamind.readme.io/docs/get-all-lang-examples" target="_blank">Get All Examples (Einstein
                    Language)</a></li>
                <li><a href="https://metamind.readme.io/docs/get-all-models" target="_blank">Get All Models (Einstein
                    Vision)</a></li>
                <li><a href="https://metamind.readme.io/docs/get-all-lang-models" target="_blank">Get All Models (Einstein
                    Language)</a></li>
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            <td data-label="Things to Consider" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d22102e59 ">You can access individual examples, datasets, and models using the API. If you
              need to export more data, contact Salesforce Customer Support.</td>
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            <td data-label="Common Customer Request" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d22102e55 ">A customer wants me to delete data associated with them. How can I get their
              information from an orchestration instance?</td>
            <td data-label="Actions to Consider" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d22102e57 ">Use
              the API return instance data associated with a unique identifier. After you find
              this data, export it.</td>
            <td data-label="Things to Consider" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d22102e59 ">&nbsp;</td>
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            <td data-label="Common Customer Request" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d22102e55 ">I want to export my reaction to an Einstein Next Best Action
              recommendation.</td>
            <td data-label="Actions to Consider" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d22102e57 ">To export customer reactions, use <a href="https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.chatterapi.meta/chatterapi/connect_resources_nba_reaction.htm" target="_blank">Next
                Best Action, Reaction</a> via Connect REST API.</td>
            <td data-label="Things to Consider" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d22102e59 ">&nbsp;</td>
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