## 13.12.4.1  Deletion of Personal Data in Master Data Governance
## Use
For personal data processed in the Master Data Governance (MDG) application, you can use SAP Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) to control the blocking and deletion of personal data. For more information, see the product assistance for SAP S/4HANA on the SAP Help Portal under Product Assistance Cross Components Data Protection .
## Relevant Application Object
| Application        | Provided Deletion Functionality   |
|--------------------|-----------------------------------|
| MDGChange Requests | Archiving object USMD_CR          |
For more information about the application object, see the product assistance for SAP S/4HANA on the SAP Help Portal under Product Assistance Cross Components Master Data Governance Data Protection in Master Data Governance Data Archiving in Master Data Governance .
## Configuration: Simplified Blocking and Deletion
- You configure the settings related to the blocking and deletion of business partner, customer, and supplier master data in Customizing under Cross-Application Components Data Protection Deletion of Data Deletion of Business Partner Data .
- For information on defining ILM rules, see the product assistance for SAP S/4HANA on the SAP Help Portal under Product Assistance Cross Components SAP Information Lifecycle Management Using ILM Retention Management in the Application System Editing ILM Policies Editing Retention Rules .
- For information on defining End of Purpose checks, see the product assistance for SAP S/4HANA on the SAP Help Portal under Product Assistance Cross Components Data Protection Simplified Blocking and Deletion End of Purpose (EoP) Check .
## End of Purpose
Master Data Governance for Business Partner (MDG-BP), Master Data Governance for Supplier (MDG-S), and Master Data Governance for Customer (MDG-C) are applications that are providing a workflow-based governance process for business partners. Within this process, the applications MDG-BP, MDG-S, and MDGC do not store business partners permanently. In any case, MDG-BP, MDG-S, and MDG-C do not process business partners with the end of purpose indicator assigned.
For Master Data Governance, consolidation and Master Data Governance, mass processing, we recommend to use only business partner records that are not selected for End of Purpose (EoP).
The MDG, consolidation application and the MDG, mass processing application do not process business partners with the end of purpose indicator assigned.
For MDG, consolidation, we recommend to delete source data after the end of the consolidation process.
## Storage of Personal Data
All Master Data Governance applications store data only temporarily.
## Changes to Personal Data
The system logs changes to personal data using change documents.
## Read Access Logging for MDG
For information on read access logging, see Read Access Logging under Data Protection of this Security Guide.
## Enhancements
- For Master Data Governance for Custom Objects, we do not recommended to enhance personal data in your own objects. If it is necessary, you need to ensure to archive and delete enhanced data for the End of Purpose (EoP) goal.
- For Master Data Governance, central governance, we recommend to use backend tables of SAP-BP for enhancements and enhance the MDG data model accordingly. .