What does WordPress do with members account information?

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  mcsdad · Member · Mar 31, 2013 at 1:12 am

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  I have a friend who is leary of creating a WordPress account (to access my private blog), for fear of getting bombarded by advertisements, etc. What does WordPress do with the account information of someone who creates a WordPress account?

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

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Mar 31, 2013 at 1:44 am

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  I’ve been with WordPress for years. No adverts from them in all this time. One can subscribe to the WordPress blog for wp news and interesting articles, but it is also easy to unsubscribe if you change your mind.

  Here are a couple of articles about the official privacy policies:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/private-information/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/private-user-data/

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Mar 31, 2013 at 1:46 am

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  Note that if you have a blog, wordpress might put adverts on your blog to pay the bills for the free hosting here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/no-ads/

  But they do not advertise via email for accounts with or without blogs.

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  mcsdad · Member · Mar 31, 2013 at 1:51 am

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  Thank you!

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Mar 31, 2013 at 1:57 am

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  You are welcome. I hope your friend will be reassured. I’m only a volunteer but my experience with WordPress has been very good and I respect their company / business practices.