privacy of my personal information

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  capitaldistrictavs · Member · Jan 29, 2013 at 3:55 am

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  I entered in my personal information, name, address, phone number and tried to review the information for keeping that private ($8 fee) when I went to the area, the total fees were $16 due to other additions, I can’t get back there now and is that what I need to do to keep my information private. I appreciate your quick response so as to keep my personal information private.

  Thank you,
  Heidi Dillenbeck

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Jan 29, 2013 at 4:46 am

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  Your personal information is not released publicly with a free wordpress.com account or blog.

  You do not have to buy any upgrade to keep your personal info private. I wonder if you were looking at something about a domain name registration / upgrade?
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/all-about-domains/
  or perhaps this:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/add-a-domain/

  If you don’t have a domain yet but you want one, you’ve come to the right place. You can register a new domain with (or without, if you prefer) the private registration option.

  Domain Registration is a paid upgrade that costs $18.00 per domain, per blog, per year. The optional private registration upgrade is an additional $8.00 per domain per year.

  I’m not sure what other upgrade which would make you total cost be $16?

  Did you intend to buy the domain mapping upgrade? If not, then you certainly don’t need to have the $8 fee for private registration of the mapping.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Jan 29, 2013 at 4:52 am

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  Try this:
  dashboard—>store—>upgrades
  and do you see any (paid) upgrades?

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Jan 29, 2013 at 4:56 am

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  Do you want to make your blog private so that only folks you invite can read it?
  Currently http://capitaldistrictavs.wordpress.com/ is public and visible to anyone who has a link to it. (note: you have deleted the “placeholder” post so it says there is nothing to find.)

  Privacy settings:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Jan 29, 2013 at 5:01 am

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  There is also this support article about privacy policies on wordpress.com:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/private-user-data/
  http://automattic.com/privacy/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/private-information/

  But none of this is a paid upgrade: it is standard policy for free hosted wordpress.com blogs.

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  catrymer · Member · Jan 29, 2013 at 7:09 pm

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  Hi there,

  We at WordPress.com take the privacy of your personal information very seriously. You can read our Privacy Policy at http://automattic.com/privacy/.

  As Tess said, the $8 charge is for users who want to register a custom domain name privately. If you are not purchasing a custom domain for your site then you don’t need this upgrade.

  Tess has given you a lot of good information here, do you still have any questions I can help you with?

  Best!