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title: Guides
path: guides
status: published
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# Guides

These are task-focused walkthroughs for the GDPR operations you run against a
ScaiLog server. Each one is grounded in the actual CLI and `/v1` API. If you
have not run ScaiLog yet, do the [Quickstart](/docs/scailog/quickstart) first.

- [Handle a DSAR (subject access request)](/docs/scailog/guides/handle-a-dsar)
  — collect and decrypt everything ScaiLog holds on a subject, and verify the
  signed report.
- [Erase a subject (Article 17)](/docs/scailog/guides/erase-a-subject) — destroy
  a subject's key, understand tombstone vs delete mode, and keep the signed
  erasure receipt.
- [Write a retention/PI policy](/docs/scailog/guides/write-a-policy) — author,
  validate, and version the YAML policy that decides how each PI field is handled
  and how long entries are kept.