--- schema_version: "1" id: 4d279b82ae049a5cc10b0528e895a635fbcb62afbdb520920f2e4ce645d99ba2 title: Individual collection: legacydeveloper version: current locale: en-us portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/legacydeveloper/current/en-us/object_reference/sforce_api_objects_individual.md canonical_url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.object_reference.meta/object_reference/sforce_api_objects_individual.htm source_site: developer.salesforce.com content_type: documentation content_hash: 22448a39bafa7d250d44c058245615647051686bebaee66513b7157cc9d6f742 description: Represents a customer’s data privacy and protection preferences. Data privacy records based on the Individual object store your customers’ preferences. Data privacy records are associated with related leads, contacts, person accounts, and users. This object is available in API version 42.0 and later. --- # Individual Represents a customer’s data privacy and protection preferences. Data privacy records based on the Individual object store your customers’ preferences. Data privacy records are associated with related leads, contacts, person accounts, and users. This object is available in API version 42.0 and later. ## Supported Calls create(), delete(), describeLayout(), describeSObjects(), getDeleted(), getUpdated(), merge(), query(), retrieve(), search(), undelete(), update(), upsert() ## Special Access Rules - This object is available if Data Protection and Privacy is enabled. ## Fields | Field Name | Details | | --- | --- | | BirthDate | Type date Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The customer’s birthdate. | | CanStorePiiElsewhere | Type boolean Properties Create, Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort, Update Description Indication that you can store the customer’s personally identifiable information (PII) outside of their legislation area. For example, you could store an EU citizen’s PII data in the US. | | ChildrenCount | Type int Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The number of children the customer has. | | ConsumerCreditScore | Type int Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The person's credit score (for example, 740). | | ConsumerCreditScoreProviderName | Type string Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The name of the company that provided the credit score. | | ConvictionsCount | Type int Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The number of convictions for the customer. | | DeathDate | Type date Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The customer’s death date. | | FirstName | Type string Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The customer’s first name. Maximum size is 40 characters. | | HasOptedOutGeoTracking | Type boolean Properties Create, Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort, Update Description Preference to not track geolocation on mobile devices. | | HasOptedOutProcessing | Type boolean Properties Create, Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort, Update Description Preference to not process personal data, which can include collecting, storing, and sharing personal data. | | HasOptedOutProfiling | Type boolean Properties Create, Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort, Update Description Preference to not process data for predicting personal attributes, such as interests, behavior, and location. | | HasOptedOutSolicit | Type boolean Properties Create, Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort, Update Description Preference to not solicit products and services. | | HasOptedOutTracking | Type boolean Properties Create, Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort, Update Description Preference to not track customer web activity and whether the customer opens email sent through Salesforce. | | HasPrivacyHold | Type boolean Properties Create, Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort, Update Description Indicates the Privacy Hold status. | | IndividualsAge | Type picklist Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description Indicates whether the customer is considered to be a minor. | | InfluencerRating | Type int Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description A measure of the person's influence, irrespective of how we do business with them. | | IsHomeOwner | Type boolean Properties Create, Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort, Update Description Indicates whether the customer owns a home. | | LastName | Type string Properties Create, Filter, Group, Sort, Update Description Required. The customer’s last name. Maximum size is 80 characters. | | LastViewedDate | Type dateTime Properties Filter, Nillable, Sort Description The timestamp for when the current user last viewed this record. | | MasterRecordId | Type reference Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort Description If this object was deleted as the result of a merge, this field contains the ID of the record that was kept. If this object was deleted for any other reason, or hasn’t been deleted, the value is null. This is a relationship field. Relationship Name MasterRecord Relationship Type Lookup Refers To Individual | | MilitaryService | Type picklist Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description Indicates whether the customer has served in the military. | | Name | Type string Properties Filter, Group, Sort Description Concatenation of FirstName and LastName. Maximum size is 203 characters, including whitespaces. | | Occupation | Type string Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The customer’s occupation. Maximum size is 150 characters. | | OwnerId | Type reference Properties Create, Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort, Update Description The ID of the owner of the account associated with this customer. This is a relationship field. Relationship Name Owner Relationship Type Lookup Refers To User | | Salutation | Type picklist Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The title for addressing the customer, such as Dr. or Mrs. | | SendIndividualData | Type boolean Properties Create, Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort, Update Description Preference to export personal data for delivery to the customer. | | ShouldForget | Type boolean Properties Create, Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort, Update Description Preference to delete records and personal data related to this customer. | | Website | Type url Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The URL for the customer’s website. | ## Associated Objects This object has the following associated objects. If the API version isn’t specified, they’re available in the same API versions as this object. Otherwise, they’re available in the specified API version and later. [IndividualChangeEvent](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.object_reference.meta/object_reference/sforce_api_associated_objects_change_event.htm "A ChangeEvent object is available for each object that supports Change Data Capture. You can subscribe to a stream of change events using Change Data Capture to receive data tied to record changes in Salesforce. Changes include record creation, updates to an existing record, deletion of a record, and undeletion of a record. A change event isn’t a Salesforce object—it doesn’t support CRUD operations or queries. It’s included in the object reference so you can discover which Salesforce objects support change events.") (API version 47.0) Change events are available for the object. [IndividualHistory](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.object_reference.meta/object_reference/sforce_api_associated_objects_history.htm "StandardObjectNameHistory is the model for all history objects associated with standard objects. These objects represent the history of changes to the values in the fields of a standard object.") History is available for tracked fields of the object. [IndividualShare](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.object_reference.meta/object_reference/sforce_api_objects_individualshare.htm "Represents a list of access levels to a data privacy record along with an explanation of the access level. For example, if you have access to a record because you own it, the IndividualAccessLevel is All and RowCause is Owner. This object is available in API version 42.0 and later.") Sharing is available for the object.