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This Privacy Policy explains what information Delete-Account.com ("we", "us", "our", or the "Site") collects, how we use it, and the choices and rights available to you.
Last updated: September 8, 2026
1. Who we are
Delete-Account.com is an independent, informational directory that helps people find official account deletion and deactivation instructions for online services. This policy covers the personal data processed in connection with your use of this website.
2. Information we collect
We keep the data we collect deliberately minimal. We do not require registration, and we do not ask you for your name, email address, or credentials for any third-party account. Depending on how you use the Site, we may process:
- Standard server and log data — such as your IP address, browser type and version, device type, referring page, pages visited, and timestamps, collected automatically when you access the Site.
- Search queries — the terms you type into our on-site search are processed to return matching results; we do not link them to an identity.
- Advertising identifiers and cookie data — collected by our advertising partners as described in the Cookies section below.
- Information you send us directly — if you email us (for example, to request a guide or report an error), we receive whatever information you choose to include in that message.
3. Cookies & similar technologies
Cookies are small text files stored on your device. We use them, and allow certain partners to use them, for the following purposes:
- Essential cookies — needed for basic site functionality, such as remembering your session while you browse.
- Advertising cookies — this Site displays ads served through Google AdSense. Google and its advertising partners may use cookies, device identifiers, and similar technologies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites, and to measure ad performance.
You can learn more about how Google uses data from sites that use its services, and manage your ad personalization settings, at Google's Privacy & Terms and Google Ads Settings. Most browsers let you block or delete cookies through their settings; doing so may affect how ads and some site features behave, but it will not prevent you from reading our guides.
Where required by law — including under the EU/UK cookie rules and GDPR — we will only set non-essential cookies after you have given consent through an on-site cookie banner or your browser's equivalent signal.
4. How we use information
- To operate, maintain, and secure the Site.
- To understand aggregate usage patterns and improve our content and directory.
- To serve and measure advertising that helps fund the Site.
- To respond to emails, guide requests, and corrections you send us.
- To detect, investigate, and prevent abuse, fraud, or security incidents.
- To comply with legal obligations.
We do not sell personal data, and we do not use your information for automated decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects.
5. Our legal basis for processing (EEA/UK)
If you are located in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we rely on the following legal bases under the GDPR / UK GDPR:
- Legitimate interests — for server logs, security, and understanding aggregate site usage, where these interests are not overridden by your rights.
- Consent — for non-essential cookies and advertising personalization, which you can withdraw at any time.
- Legal obligation — where we need to retain or disclose information to comply with the law.
6. How information is shared
We do not sell your personal data. We may share limited information with:
- Service providers — such as our hosting infrastructure, who process data on our behalf solely to operate the Site.
- Advertising partners — including Google AdSense, which independently collects and processes data as described in the Cookies section above and in Google's own Privacy Policy.
- Legal and safety purposes — where disclosure is required to comply with a legal obligation, enforce our terms, or protect the rights, property, or safety of the Site, our users, or others.
- A future business transfer — if the Site were ever sold, merged, or its assets transferred, data may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to this policy.
7. International data transfers
The Site is accessed globally, and the third-party providers we use — including Google — may process data in countries other than your own, including the United States. Where required, such transfers rely on appropriate safeguards recognized under applicable law, such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.
8. Data retention
We retain server log data only for as long as reasonably necessary for security, troubleshooting, and analytics purposes, after which it is deleted or aggregated. Emails you send us are kept for as long as needed to address your request and for a reasonable period afterward for our records. Cookie and advertising data are retained according to the policies of the relevant provider (for example, Google's own retention periods).
9. Your privacy rights
Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the following rights over the personal data we hold about you:
- Access — request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Rectification — ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
- Erasure — ask us to delete your personal data, subject to certain exceptions.
- Restriction — ask us to limit how we use your data in certain circumstances.
- Objection — object to processing based on legitimate interests, including for direct marketing.
- Portability — request your data in a portable format, where technically feasible.
- Withdraw consent — withdraw any consent you previously gave us (for example, for advertising cookies) at any time, without affecting processing that occurred before withdrawal.
- Lodge a complaint — EEA/UK residents may lodge a complaint with their local data protection supervisory authority.
To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the details in the Contact us section below. We may need to verify your request before acting on it.
10. Additional notice for California residents
If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CCPA/CPRA), gives you additional rights, including the right to:
- Know what personal information we collect, use, and disclose about you.
- Request deletion of personal information we hold about you, subject to certain exceptions.
- Correct inaccurate personal information.
- Opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information, including for cross-context behavioral advertising.
- Limit the use of sensitive personal information (though we do not collect sensitive personal information as defined by the CCPA).
- Not receive discriminatory treatment for exercising any of these rights.
We do not sell personal information for money. However, the use of advertising cookies through Google AdSense may be considered "sharing" for cross-context behavioral advertising under the CPRA. You can opt out of this by using your browser's cookie controls, the Google Ads Settings link above, or the Global Privacy Control signal, where supported.
11. Children's privacy
This Site is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13 (or the minimum age required by local law, such as 16 in parts of the EEA). If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so we can delete it.
12. Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect the information we process. However, no method of transmission or storage over the internet is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
13. Third-party links
Our guides link to official pages operated by third-party services. Those services have their own privacy practices, which we do not control. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any third-party site before providing it with information.
14. Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for legal, operational, or regulatory reasons. We will update the "Last updated" date above when we do. Continued use of the Site after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.
15. Contact us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise any of your rights, contact us at hello@delete-account.com.