# Deleting Profiles From Real Time Segments

If required, for business reasons or to comply with privacy laws like GDPR or CCPA, you can delete profiles that are stored in real-time segments. The mechanism for accomplishing this is to create a workflow that calls a profile deletion API with a table of profiles to be deleted. Here are steps for accomplishing this:

1. Create a table that contains one or more profiles that you want to delete from a real-time segment.
2. Create a workflow task that passes the table of profiles to a deletion API that deletes the profiles it contains from the real-time segment
3. Consult the Premium Audit Log to confirm the delete operations were successful.


## Creating a Table of Profiles to Delete from a Real-time Parent Segment

You can create a table of profiles to delete from the real-time parent segment either manually in the [TD Console](/products/customer-data-platform/data-workbench/databases/creating-or-viewing-tables) or by using the [TD Toolbelt](/products/customer-data-platform/data-workbench/databases/creating-or-viewing-tables#using-td-toolbelt). When using a query to create the table, query the database that was used to create the real-time segment you want to delete from.

## Creating the Workflow to Delete Profiles from a Real-time Parent Segment

After you have created a table of profiles to delete from your real-time parent segment, create a workflow that will call the profile deletion API. You can create the workflow using either the [TD console](/products/customer-data-platform/data-workbench/workflows/getting-started-with-treasure-workflow) or the [TD Toolbelt](/products/customer-data-platform/data-workbench/workflows/getting-started-with-treasure-workflow#using-td-toolbelt).

After creating the workflow, here is an example of how to configure it.


```yaml
+create_rt_profile_delete_internal_db:  
  td_ddl>:  
  create_databases: [rt_profile_delete_internal_container]  
  database: rt_profile_delete_internal_container  
  
###  
### RT PROFILE DELETE INTERNAL  
###  
+rt_profile_delete_profile:  
  td>:  
  database: rt_profile_delete_internal_container  
  query: |  
    SELECT key || ':' || value  
    FROM profiles_to_be_deleted;  
  result_url: |  
    {  
      "type": "rest",  
      "method": "POST",  
      "authorization": "${secret:td.apikey}",  
      "endpoint": "${reactor_importer_endpoint}/internal/bulk-delete-internal",  
      "headers": "{\"x-reactor-instance-name\": \"${reactor_instance}\"}",  
      "parallelism": ${parallelism},  
      "page_size": ${page_size}  
    }
```

In the example above note the following:

* On the FROM line you specify the table you created that contains the profiles you want to delete
* On the "endpoint" line specify the endpoint of the region where your real-time data is stored.


After you have configured the workflow, run it to delete the profiles.

### Real-time Parent Segment Delete Endpoints

The profile deletion API cannot be called directly. It must be specified in the workflow configuration you create to delete profiles from a real-time segment. Here are the region-specific endpoints to include in the workflow configuration.

| Region | Endpoint |
|  --- | --- |
| US (aws) | [https://bulk-storage-importer-api-production-aws-us-east-1.internal.treasuredata.com](https://bulk-storage-importer-api-production-aws-us-east-1.internal.treasuredata.com/) |
| Japan (aws-tokyo) | [https://bulk-storage-importer-api-production-aws-tokyo-ap-northeast-1.internal.treasuredata.com](https://bulk-storage-importer-api-production-aws-tokyo-ap-northeast-1.internal.treasuredata.com/) |
| Europe (eu01) | [https://bulk-storage-importer-api-production-eu01-eu-central-1.internal.treasuredata.com](https://bulk-storage-importer-api-production-eu01-eu-central-1.internal.treasuredata.com/) |
| Asia-Pacific (ap03) | [https://bulk-storage-importer-api-production-ap03-ap-northeast-1.internal.treasuredata.com](https://bulk-storage-importer-api-production-ap03-ap-northeast-1.internal.treasuredata.com/) |


## Consulting the Audit Log to Confirm Profile Deletion from Real-time Parent Segment

After you have successfully run the workflow, you can consult the Premium Audit logs to determine if the profiles contained in your table were deleted.