Account & Data Deletion Process Experience Survey
Measures user experience, satisfaction, and trust impact across the account and data deletion journey. Designed for product, privacy, and compliance teams seeking actionable feedback to reduce friction and support GDPR/CCPA requirements.
Sample questions
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In the past 12 months, have you tried to delete an account or request deletion of your personal data from any company?
- Yes
- No
- Not sure
Which method(s) did you use to request account or data deletion? Select all that apply.
- In-app delete option
- Website account settings
- Email request
- Contact form or web ticket
- Live chat
- Phone call
- Social media message
- Data rights or privacy portal
- Other (please specify)
How clear were the instructions for deleting your account or data in your most recent attempt?
Which confirmation format would you find most reassuring after a deletion request?
- In-app confirmation message
- Email receipt or confirmation
- Downloadable certificate or PDF
- Account dashboard log or history
- No confirmation needed
- Other (please specify)
What is your age?
- 18–24
- 25–34
- 35–44
- 45–54
- 55–64
- 65 or older
- Prefer not to say
Thank you for completing this survey. Your feedback will help improve account and data deletion processes. Your responses are anonymous and will be reported only in aggregate.
What was the outcome of your most recent deletion request?
- Completed on first try
- Completed after multiple steps
- Still pending or unclear
- Not completed — request was refused
- Not completed — I could not find how to delete
How clearly was the timeline for completing your deletion communicated?
Based on your responses in this survey, please share any additional thoughts or feelings about your account or data deletion experience.
Which of the following best describes your gender?
- Man
- Woman
- Non-binary
- Prefer not to say
How long did the process take from your initial request to final confirmation?
- Less than 1 day
- 1–3 days
- 4–7 days
- 8–30 days
- More than 30 days
- I have not yet received confirmation
How clearly was it communicated which specific data would be deleted versus retained?
In which region do you currently live?
- Africa
- Asia
- Europe
- North America
- South America
- Oceania
- Prefer not to say
Did you receive confirmation that your account or data were deleted?
- Yes — in-app message
- Yes — by email
- Yes — both in-app and email
- Not sure
- No
How clearly was it communicated how to verify that your data had been deleted?
How would you rate your overall comfort level with managing your digital privacy (e.g., adjusting privacy settings, reviewing data policies)?
Overall, how satisfied were you with the account or data deletion process?
How likely are you to recommend this company's deletion process to someone who needs to delete their data?
How did this deletion experience affect your trust in that company?
What’s included
AI follow-ups
Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.
Attention checks
Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.
AI-drafted copy
Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.
Auto report
Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.
How it compares
We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.
Why this template
- Goes beyond just capturing a deletion request — it measures the full journey from initial request through confirmation, including clarity of instructions, timeline communication, and what data was retained vs. deleted.
- Includes dedicated opinion-scale questions on satisfaction, likelihood to recommend, and trust impact, giving privacy and compliance teams a way to quantify the emotional/trust cost of deletion friction, not just process completion.
- Uses an AI follow-up interview question to let respondents explain their experience in their own words, surfacing nuance a static multiple-choice form would miss.
- Asks which confirmation format respondents would find most reassuring, giving product teams direct input for redesigning deletion confirmations — plus demographic and digital-privacy-comfort questions for segmentation.
Typeform
GDPR Data Removal Request Form TemplateThis is a fielding-ready intake form for submitting a GDPR data removal request, not a survey measuring the experience, satisfaction, or trust impact of that process. It's built for compliance intake rather than post-process feedback or CX measurement. Good for capturing a request, but it stops where QuestionPunk's template begins.
What it does well
- Typeform's clean, conversational form UI is well suited to a simple intake use case
- Purpose-built around GDPR terminology, so it's quick to adapt for a basic data removal request form
- Likely easy to embed and deploy with minimal setup for a single-step request
Where it falls short
- No adaptive AI follow-up interview or voice AI option to probe why a request was made or how the process felt
- No built-in satisfaction, trust-impact, or process-clarity measurement — it collects a request, not an experience evaluation
- No automated per-response quality scoring or auto-generated report for compliance/product teams to act on
Ready to launch?
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