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title: "Personal data"
description: "Start a job for one or more people, find what you hold about them, give them a readable copy, restrict or stop processing at their request, keep a contestable record of decisions about them, keep what a law asks you to keep, and erase the rest by destroying keys."
canonical_url: "https://docs.oz0.ai/govern/personal-data"
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# Personal data

> Start a job for one or more people, find what you hold about them, give them a readable copy, restrict or stop processing at their request, keep a contestable record of decisions about them, keep what a law asks you to keep, and erase the rest by destroying keys.

For: tenant admins and governance reviewers.

Associate people with jobs before relying on the platform to find their records. Use the task pages below to export data, restrict processing, handle a contest, erase records or set retention. Each task states what it reaches and what remains outside it.

GDPR gives people the right to see their data, to have its processing restricted or stopped for a purpose, to contest an automated decision about them, and to have their data erased. A job about a person (a support ticket, an application, a customer's order) carries their data in its input, in every step's input and output, and in its answer; Temporal keeps all of it in the job's history, and backups keep copies. Deleting rows does not reach the copies.

So a job about people is encrypted with a key of its own, which only the keys of those people open, and erasing a person destroys the keys. What that means for backups is said [below](https://docs.oz0.ai/govern/personal-data/retention#backups), with what holds until a restore.

## Related tasks and reference

- [Associate people and purposes with jobs](https://docs.oz0.ai/govern/personal-data/associate-people)
- [Find and export personal data](https://docs.oz0.ai/govern/personal-data/export)
- [Restrict processing and record contests](https://docs.oz0.ai/govern/personal-data/restrictions-and-contests)
- [Erase personal data](https://docs.oz0.ai/govern/personal-data/erase)
- [Retain records and restore backups](https://docs.oz0.ai/govern/personal-data/retention)
- [Personal data held by plugins](https://docs.oz0.ai/govern/personal-data/plugin-records)

<legacy-sections>
<span id="backups">

backups

</span>

: [Read the section](https://docs.oz0.ai/govern/personal-data/retention#backups).

<span id="decision-records-and-contests">

decision records and contests

</span>

: [Read the section](https://docs.oz0.ai/govern/personal-data/restrictions-and-contests#decision-records-and-contests).

<span id="erase">

erase

</span>

: [Read the section](https://docs.oz0.ai/govern/personal-data/erase#erase).

<span id="exports">

exports

</span>

: [Read the section](https://docs.oz0.ai/govern/personal-data/export#exports).

<span id="find-what-you-hold">

find what you hold

</span>

: [Read the section](https://docs.oz0.ai/govern/personal-data/export#find-what-you-hold).

<span id="give-a-person-their-data">

give a person their data

</span>

: [Read the section](https://docs.oz0.ai/govern/personal-data/export#give-a-person-their-data).

<span id="keep-what-a-law-asks-you-to-keep">

keep what a law asks you to keep

</span>

: [Read the section](https://docs.oz0.ai/govern/personal-data/retention#keep-what-a-law-asks-you-to-keep).

<span id="memory-about-people">

memory about people

</span>

: [Read the section](https://docs.oz0.ai/govern/personal-data/plugin-records#memory-about-people).

<span id="one-job-id-one-set-of-people">

one job id one set of people

</span>

: [Read the section](https://docs.oz0.ai/govern/personal-data/associate-people#one-job-id-one-set-of-people).

<span id="people-from-triggers">

people from triggers

</span>

: [Read the section](https://docs.oz0.ai/govern/personal-data/associate-people#people-from-triggers).

<span id="purposes-and-legal-bases">

purposes and legal bases

</span>

: [Read the section](https://docs.oz0.ai/govern/personal-data/associate-people#purposes-and-legal-bases).

<span id="restrict-and-object">

restrict and object

</span>

: [Read the section](https://docs.oz0.ai/govern/personal-data/restrictions-and-contests#restrict-and-object).

<span id="several-people-in-one-job">

several people in one job

</span>

: [Read the section](https://docs.oz0.ai/govern/personal-data/associate-people#several-people-in-one-job).

<span id="start-a-job-for-a-person">

start a job for a person

</span>

: [Read the section](https://docs.oz0.ai/govern/personal-data/associate-people#start-a-job-for-a-person).

<span id="the-erasure-policy">

the erasure policy

</span>

: [Read the section](https://docs.oz0.ai/govern/personal-data/erase#the-erasure-policy).

<span id="what-it-does-not-reach">

what it does not reach

</span>

: [Read the section](https://docs.oz0.ai/govern/personal-data/erase#what-it-does-not-reach).

<span id="what-plugins-keep">

what plugins keep

</span>

: [Read the section](https://docs.oz0.ai/govern/personal-data/plugin-records#what-plugins-keep).

</legacy-sections>


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