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Create and publish a data deletion / right to be forgotten policy

1-2 hr Impact: medium Effort: medium ✓ Manual completion

A data deletion or right to be forgotten policy documents exactly how users can request their personal data be deleted, and your real process for actually honoring that request, required under GDPR and similar regulations, and genuinely important beyond legal compliance alone.

Users increasingly expect real control over their data, and having no defined process means a genuine request could go unhandled or be handled inconsistently, both a compliance and trust problem.

How to do it

  1. 1
    Document how a user can actually submit a deletion request
    A clear, findable process, not something they have to hunt for.
  2. 2
    Define your real internal process for handling it
    Who is responsible, what systems need to be checked, how deletion is actually verified.
  3. 3
    Publish the policy clearly
    Users should be able to find this easily, typically linked from your privacy policy.
  4. 4
    Test the process end to end
    Submit a real test request yourself to confirm the process genuinely works as documented.

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How you will know it is done

A data deletion policy is published, and the underlying process has been tested and confirmed to genuinely work.

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