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gso
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deleting forum login

Post by gso » Thu May 09, 2013 9:10 pm

How do you delete a forum account?

Thanks,

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Re: deleting forum login

Post by Douglas » Fri May 10, 2013 9:20 pm

Accounts are not deletable.

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Re: deleting forum login

Post by gso » Sat May 11, 2013 1:08 pm

I'm not sure how legal that would be in the UK, is there I way I can remove personal information (e.g., my email address)?

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Re: deleting forum login

Post by Douglas » Sun May 12, 2013 5:48 am

gso wrote:I'm not sure how legal that would be in the UK, is there I way I can remove personal information (e.g., my email address)?
There is no law against it, the forum and its content are owned by a US company and operates on US soil.

You should be able to edit your profile and edit email in the user control panel.

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Re: deleting forum login

Post by gso » Mon May 13, 2013 1:44 pm

When in Rome I guess then - I subscribe under the conditions of the laws of the country from which the company operates!

The Data Protections Act in the UK would prevent a company from holding in addition to inacurate and/ or incomplete etc. data, information that they do not have an actual need to hold inorder to carry out their business.

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Re: deleting forum login

Post by ecrist » Mon Jun 03, 2013 1:40 pm

You cannot delete accounts. An email address isn't really considered personal information. Really, I don't give two farts about UK laws. :)
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