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In your [[profile]] there is a setting for this. | In your [[profile]] there is a setting for this. | ||
===Can | ===Can I delete my account?=== | ||
As required by | As required by GDPR Article 17, we will remove your account if you so desire. Please send us an email from the associated email address of the account to info@anidb.net and state that you want your account removed. Please note that if there are multiple accounts associated with that email we will remove all of them unless you specify. | ||
Please note that the process is not instant and we have | Please note that the process is not instant and we have up to 30 days to comply with your request. | ||
Furthermore note that we will not remove data | Furthermore, please note that we will not remove data which AniDB does not consider personal and is used to enrich AniDB. That includes but is not limited towards: reviews, recommendations, similar anime suggestions, votes, and forum posts. Especially when it comes to forum posts, this is a tricky act; we ask you to manually look over your posts and remove any personal data from them, but please leave the remaining ones. Discussions become otherwise impossible if they are gutted and have holes. The username associated with all of these entries are pseudonymized, which is an alternative to outright deletion and is a valid way for us to comply with your request under the GDPR statutes. We will gladly arbiter by your request, but please understand that AniDB needs to operate and needs to retain some non-personal data for that purpose. | ||
If you have questions about the procedure please join us on | If you have questions about the procedure, please join us on IRC and state your issue. | ||
==Also see== | ==Also see== | ||