Deleting my account permanently
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We’ll be happy to delete the data from your site if you’d like us to do so.
Accounts are not deleted for your protection – this policy is to ensure that your site cannot be impersonated or otherwise used maliciously. Would you like help removing the data from your site?
You can find more information about deleting accounts here: support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/.
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@kh2305
Staff cannot and will not delete your account. You have to 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 -
Hi kh2305. Your request is in queue and waiting on a member of Staff to address it.
Please note, WordPress does not delete accounts. Your site content can be deleted, but accounts themselves are not deleted.
WordPress offers two great options for support. For free support you can submit a question to the forums ( forums.wordpress.com ) and a member of the community or staff will get back to you in time.
If you’d like a response on demand, live chat support with a Happiness Engineers is a feature of all of all of the paid plans, which start as low as $2.99 per month for the Personal Plan.
More info can be found here:
https://support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/
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@kaitwaters
Please don’t tailgate me. Please don’t push upgrades at those who post here either.I have answered questions here for over 11 years and I am a actual volunteer who serves without expectation of gain or reward of any kind. I am not a staff wannbe. My only motive is to provide correct answers exactly like I did above. I predate the support docs and all but one support staff member being on staff. There is no need for a modlook tag on this thread.
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Hi kh2305,
is there a way for someone like you or someone else that can delete my account
An account needs to be deleted by the owner, so this isn’t something we can do on your behalf. The steps @timethief provided will guide you through the process and there is more information in this guide if you need it:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/
If you follow these steps, all personal information will be removed.
Come back to me if you have questions.
Thanks!
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