Letter to Request Deletion of Personal Data

The Letter to Request Deletion of Personal Data is a letter through which a person can request that their personal information be deleted or completely removed from a company's records.

Personal information is private non-public information, which includes a person's name, gender, race, nationality, contact details, bank details, email address. It also includes sensitive information such as a person's belief, race, sexual orientation, political views, criminal record, and other sensitive information. According to the law, a person may, at any time, request that their personal information to be deleted.

Personal data may be collected or processed for many purposes. For example, a vendor may collect the data of persons who subscribe to their services or purchases a product, whether online or not. Similarly, as a requirement for employment, an employer processes the personal information of their employees.

People may want their data deleted for some reason. For example, they may want their data deleted if they no longer require a particular service, or they have been receiving spam emails from several websites and would like to reduce the number of parties or platforms that process their data.

How to use this document

This letter is a simple document that can be used when a person wants to request the removal of their personal data. It requires the sender's name and contact details, the recipient's name and contact details, the reason for making the request, and the information that should be deleted.

This letter can be sent as a letter or an email. If it is sent as letter, the document should be printed and signed by the party sending it.

Applicable law

According to the Nigerian Data Protection Regulation 2019, a data subject has the right to request to have their personal data deleted.

How to modify the template

You fill out a form. The document is created before your eyes as you respond to the questions.

At the end, you receive it in Word and PDF formats. You can modify it and reuse it.