# How long does personal information remain in Discourse's servers after it's deleted on the front end?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-long-does-personal-information-remain-in-discourses-servers-after-its-deleted-on-the-front-end/284128>\
**Category:** Data & reporting\
**Tags:** gdpr, privacy\
**Created:** [November 1, 2023, 4:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-long-does-personal-information-remain-in-discourses-servers-after-its-deleted-on-the-front-end/284128 "2023-11-01T16:21:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 8:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-long-does-personal-information-remain-in-discourses-servers-after-its-deleted-on-the-front-end/284128/4 "2023-11-02T20:44:05Z")

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All good. 🙂

Users are not deleted after a period of inactivity unless they were never activated.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/0/0/e00a9417ab82039ad03ba4470632e574e2256e2a.png)

We retain backups for 30 days before deleting them permanently.

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