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This document contains guidelines for developing and establishing policies and procedures for deletion of personally identifiable information (PII) in organizations by specifying: -    a harmonized terminology for PII deletion; -    an approach for defining deletion rules in an efficient way; -    a description of required documentation; -    a broad definition of roles, responsibilities and processes. This document is intended to be used by organizations where PII is stored or processed. This document does not address: -    specific legal provision, as given by national law or specified in contracts; -    specific deletion rules for particular clusters of PII that are defined by PII controllers for processing PII; -    deletion mechanisms; -    reliability, security and suitability of deletion mechanisms; -    specific techniques for de-identification of data.