This is a GDPR topic. Basically, we need to know whether and over what time frame personal data, such as IP address, name and email, are deleted permanently. After a period of inactivity, is the IP deleted and if so after how much time? After manual deletion of a user on the front end (the forum),…

[afbeelding] Gavin Hudson: We’re trying to make it possible for users to easily delete all their personal information from all servers if they want to. Our intended functionality to support this is user anonymisation . This will remove the user’s information from the database itself; not only…

Hi, Are you referring to a site that is hosted by us or by someone else?

Sorry, yes. I was referring to a forum hosted by Discourse.

All good. :slight_smile: Users are not deleted after a period of inactivity unless they were never activated. [image] We retain backups for 30 days before deleting them permanently.

This won’t purge forum users who simply haven’t used the forum in a while, right? It will only purge unactivated users, such as when people don’t fully register or when they delete their accounts? We’re trying to make it possible for users to easily delete all their personal information from all ser…

This is something only an admin can do, right? Or is there a way to enable users to anonymize their own accounts? If it’s something only an admin can do, then when we receive a request to be forgotten, an admin will need to figure out what email/name/username the person used in the forum and anonym…

Anonymisation is an admin-only function, but we do have customers who frequently automate it into their existing compliance workflow since it can be called via the API. [afbeelding] Gavin Hudson: For instance, let’s say Jane Doe registers for the forum with jane.d@company.com , username jdo1, an…

Thanks very much for all your help, @supermathie and @HAWK !

[afbeelding] Gavin Hudson: This is something only an admin can do, right? Or is there a way to enable users to anonymize their own accounts? There is this #theme-component that helps by putting "Account Deletion Request on preferences [afbeelding] Account Deletion Req…

This is excellent! Thanks @Heliosurge !

Hoe lang blijft persoonlijke informatie op de servers van Discourse nadat deze aan de voorkant is verwijderd?

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Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency) 11 november 2023 om 05:10 10

There is this #theme-component that helps by putting "Account Deletion Request on preferences

Not sure if Automation Plugin might give other options ie on account inactivity time period.

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Hoe lang blijft persoonlijke informatie op de servers van Discourse nadat deze aan de voorkant is verwijderd?

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