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2 title: Requesting an export of your personal data
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6 You can export and review the metadata that npm stores about your personal account. The export is an archive containing the following information.
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8 1. Your personal details such as username, email address, full name, linked GitHub account, masked Personal Access Tokens (PAT) and the organisations that you are a member of.
9 2. Metadata of all the packages that you have access to.
10 3. Each individual version of packages that you have published to npm.
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12 ## How to request an export
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14 1. Navigate to [npm support form](https://www.npmjs.com/support)
15 2. Select "Account and Billing issues" category
16 3. Select "Data export request" sub-category
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18 <Screenshot src="/getting-started/managing-your-npm-user-account/requesting-your-data.png" alt="Screenshot showing the option to select a DSR export request from the support form." />
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20 4. Fill in the details and submit the form
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22 ## Retrieving the exported data
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24 After a request is placed our support team will review it and initiate an export on your behalf. Once the export process is complete you will receive an email with a link to an archive of your personal data. You must be authenticated to npmjs.com to download this archive.
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26 The download link will be available for 7 days, after which the exported data and the link is purged.