{"id":28,"date":"2022-05-18T10:30:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T10:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palomar.edu\/guide\/chapter\/erase-your-personal-data\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T09:50:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:50:39","slug":"erase-your-personal-data","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.palomar.edu\/guide\/chapter\/erase-your-personal-data\/","title":{"raw":"Erase Your Personal Data","rendered":"Erase Your Personal Data"},"content":{"raw":"Although Pressbooks is designed to only collect very minimal data about users, you may want to instruct Pressbooks to erase your personal data. To do this:\n<ol>\n \t<li>Visit the user dashboard and click '<strong>Tools<\/strong>' -&gt; '<strong>Erase Personal Data<\/strong>'<\/li>\n \t<li>Enter your username or email address<\/li>\n \t<li>Check the 'Confirmation email' box if you'd like to send a confirmation email before your personal data is erased\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.pub\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4748\/2021\/02\/Screenshot-from-2022-05-18-07-22-25.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"758\" height=\"344\"><\/li>\n \t<li>Click '<strong>Send Request<\/strong>'<\/li>\n \t<li>If you elected to send a confirmation email, follow the instructions in that email to confirm your request.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nSite administrators will also see a table showing the status of all pending and completed data deletion requests for a given book. You can complete pending requests, force erase personal data, or remove requests from this table, as desired.\u00a0 <img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.pub\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4748\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-from-2022-05-18-07-28-21.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1374\" height=\"329\">","rendered":"<p>Although Pressbooks is designed to only collect very minimal data about users, you may want to instruct Pressbooks to erase your personal data. 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