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# Purger Services

The Purger Service can be used as part of a workflow for deleting user data and Pods from ESS. This helps organizations using ESS comply with legislative requirements such as GDPR/CCPA and the right to have personal data deleted.

There are two options that can be used to hook into your workflow:

[Purger Service (HTTP API)](/ess/2.4/services/service-purger/purger-service.md)

[Purger Application (Internal deployment)](/ess/2.4/services/service-purger/purger-application.md)


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