Overview

Employers are obligated to keep employee data confidential and secure, and must delete it when no longer needed for legitimate purposes.  Check with your country's, state or provincial requirements on how long you need to keep employee information.  Follow these steps to remove an employee's personal Information from Windward Payroll.


  • From the Windward Payroll Navigator screen, select Employee Info button.


  • Select and Edit an employee record one at a time. 



  • From the employee information tab, delete sensitive information such as Date of birth, SIN, marital status, etc.



  • Go to the Contacts tab and delete any contact details of family members, or person set as your contact list, etc. 


  • Then click the Deactivate button on the employee's account.

  • You may also want to remove it from other areas, such as stored files on your desktop, other folders, or sent emails.