Delete account
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Tried wordpress after having a few years rest from it and developing my own CMS’, but I can see now why I did. Want to delete my wordpress.com account. Don’t say that ‘it can’t be deleted’, it can, and I want it doing. Right to be forgotten, misuse of data, misrepresentation, don’t make me get legal… Just delete my account. Period
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Hello there,
We cannot do this for you.
To delete a WordPress.COM hosted blog you must be logged in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the blog to navigate to Dashboard > Tools > Delete Site. The guide is here http://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/
Deleted blog URLs are not recycled, regardless of who registered and deleted them and no exceptions are made except for the one stated here http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/
Alternatively, to change blog visibility to Private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3. See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings
IMPORTANT: Accounts cannot be deleted so we cannot be impersonated by anyone registering and using the same username in the future. Also note that Automattic Inc. owns wordpress.COM and also many other products and services listed here https://automattic.com/ that do require a wordpress.COM account like Gravatar, Jetpack, Akismet, etc. Therefore, account deactivation is provided and account deletion is not provided.
Registering an account here required
(1) your consent to the Terms of Service http://wordpress.com/tos/ and all policies made under it found in the support docs like this one http://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/,
and
(2) an email address.Any personal information you posted anywhere was posted voluntarily. Both the email address and personal information can be removed or replaced at any time.
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 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.
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/
NOTE: Deleting blogs and/or content does not remove any 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: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6332384
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Thank you timethief for the quick response.
Please advise as to the clause in your privacy policy, and any other term which may be relevant to this issue, which states that my account cannot be deleted. This information will then be passed to my lawyers.I want all information pertaining to me removed from your servers.
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Many thanks for this information, may I ask, as the principal engaging agent in this issue, what your role/involvement is with WordPress/Automattic?
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I am a Volunteer, who has provided links to relevant documentation, and the email address for you to contact Staff directly with.
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I just noticed I forgot the . (dot) above in the email address above.
You can email Staff at:
help@wordpress.com
or
support@wordpress.com
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