Visitor data exports, schedules and retention

Open Privacy & Data > Exports in the site admin to download recorded site datasets, review export runs and set a retention period.

Checked against the product’s code on 7 November 2026.

Open Privacy & Data > Exports. A site dataset export is separate from exporting one visitor’s record or an EmDash whole site archive.

Only an Admin can export data, download its files, schedule exports or set retention. Being signed in alone does not allow a download.

Export a range

Available datasets include events, decisions, goals, audience transitions, audiences, profiles, consent and daily rollups.

1. Choose Export a range.
2. Fill From (inclusive).
3. Fill To (inclusive).
4. Select the intended Datasets.
5. Continue to the approval step.
6. Read Export this site’s data for download?, including its range and datasets.
7. Choose Approve & export only for the intended scope.
8. Inspect that run in Run history.
9. Read its status, row count and dataset scope.
10. Open Downloads on that run.
11. When the run has completed and files are listed, download one dataset, or choose Download everything (.zip) for the whole run as one ZIP file.

The exported records use compressed files with one data record per line in JSON format, which software can read. A queued run is not a completed download. Read its status, row count and dataset scope before using it in another system.

Schedule and use the data

Where scheduled exports are enabled for the site, Export schedule offers daily, selected weekday or monthly runs. Amadalis must enable scheduled exports for the account where it is unavailable.

1. Under Export schedule, choose Set a schedule or Change schedule.
2. Choose How often.
3. For selected weekdays, choose On these days.
4. For a monthly run, choose On day.
5. Set At.
6. Review the displayed timezone.
7. Review its destination information.
8. Choose Save schedule.
9. Read the approval.
10. Approve only the intended schedule.
11. Read its saved summary.

Warehouse ingestion supplies instructions for loading exports into a data analysis system. DuckDB is a database tool that can inspect the files directly. The recipe for Google’s BigQuery analysis service uses an intermediate transfer. It does not read the platform’s file storage directly. These instructions do not configure the connection for you.

Set retention

Visitor events are kept with no limit until you set a retention period. Once you set one, events older than it are deleted on the site’s regular scheduled run, but only after an archive export has covered them.

Setting a period does not mean eligible records have already been deleted or that a particular scheduled run succeeded.

1. Review the event classes under Retention.
2. Review their days.
3. Choose Save retention.
4. Read the approval.
5. Approve only the intended change.
6. Read the deletion run status.
7. Check which events an archive export has already covered.

Your next step

Check the completed run’s dates, datasets and downloaded files. Use Visitor Data when your next task concerns one browser record rather than a site dataset.