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Hi. Please let me know how i can deactivate the account and close ot down. Thanks
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WordPress does not delete accounts.
Accounts are not deleted for your protection – this policy is to ensure that your site cannot be impersonated or otherwise used maliciously.
There are steps that you can take to delete your site and make your account inactive and inaccessible.
Steps to delete your site are here.
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Hi northfiven5,
It is not possible to close a WordPress account, however you can delete all the data that is stored in your account. If there is an issue with your account or your blog we would be happy to assist you with having that resolved.
If you are certain that you would like to leave WordPress.com, we completely understand. You can easily empty and delete your site. Once this is done remove all personal information from your Account Settings and change your password to a random string. This will leave your account inactive and prevent you from gaining access to it in the future.
Please note that WordPress.com is unable to empty and delete your site for you, you will need to log into your account and follow the steps.
Please let us know if we can be of further assistance.
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Staff cannot and will not delete/deactivate your account for you. You can act on what follows.
Here’s how to deactivate your account:
Although username accounts are not deleted, so you cannot be impersonated and have your reputation affected by anyone registering the same username in the future, there are steps you can take that amount to removing all personal information and result in leaving only a throwaway email address behind. http://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/1. You can go to My Account->Edit Profile at https://wordpress.com/me/account and 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 only leaves the username behind.
Free disposable email address https://www.google.ca/search?q=free+disposable+email+address&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=Jf0mWaWKPMOD0wLgg6bYBQ
2. To unsubscribe from email sent to you from WordPress.com, go here and click on “Block all subscription emails from WordPress.com”:
https://wordpress.com/settings/notifications/3. To ensure the account is locked up tightly, visit this site, generate a password of 15-20 characters, and change the account password to it:
http://www.thebitmill.com/tools/password.html4. To hide your Gravatar profile, login and on the bottom right hand corner of your Gravatar profile page you will find a “hide” button visible only to you that you can click. http://en.gravatar.com/support/profile-privacy
IMPORTANT NOTE: Deleting sites and/or site content or making the site private does not remove indexed content from the SERPs (search engine page results) and we cannot help with that. Google and Bing only clear their caches of deleted indexed content that produces a 404 (page not found) every 3 – 6 months. To completely remove an entire page from Google search results after it produces a 404 (page not found):
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6332384?hl=en&ref_topic=1724262&vid=0-635749429504660340-12158368555624983465&rd=1
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