Account Deletion

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  kryogenius · Member · Dec 19, 2014 at 12:48 pm

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  Hi
  you’re saying “WordPress.com accounts cannot be deleted. However, you can easily delete your blog.”, but regards to laws about privacy, it’s not normal to keep personal data and not authorize account deletion.

  So could you delete my account please ?
  I rather prefer manage my site on my server now for more reliability.
  Thanks

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  rachelmcr · Member · Dec 23, 2014 at 4:31 pm

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  Hi there,

  It isn’t possible to delete WordPress.com accounts. Since we don’t want other people to have your username in the future, we don’t delete usernames (they are kept so they cannot be recycled).

  Here are a few suggestions for you if you’d like to scrub the account:

  1) Delete your WordPress.com sites and disconnect any self-hosted WordPress sites linked to your account.

  2) If you are trying to unsubscribe from emails sent to you from WordPress.com, go to your notifications settings and click on “Block Emails.”

  3) You can also go to your account settings to remove all data except the account name and an email address. Create a throwaway email address and change the account email to that throwaway address. This will only leave the username behind.

  4) To ensure the account is locked up tightly, create a strong password and change the account password to it.

  5) While you cannot completely delete your Gravatar profile, you can remove all of your profile information through the Edit My Profile page.

  You can also make your Gravatar profile private so no one else can view it. From the Edit My Profile page, click the “View Profile” link to see your profile, and then click the “Hide My Profile” link in the sidebar there.