# How much time will it take to finish cleanup of a deleted user's personal data?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-much-time-will-it-take-to-finish-cleanup-of-a-deleted-users-personal-data/268397
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** privacy
**Created:** [June 15, 2023, 3:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-much-time-will-it-take-to-finish-cleanup-of-a-deleted-users-personal-data/268397 "2023-06-15T03:46:17Z")
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### Author: ![hnc-jihoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hnc-jihoon/32/311301_2.png) [@hnc-jihoon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hnc-jihoon)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2023, 3:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-much-time-will-it-take-to-finish-cleanup-of-a-deleted-users-personal-data/268397/1 "2023-06-15T03:46:17Z")

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Hi,  
I’m running a forum using Discourse (SaaS) and I want to know if there is a guaranteed time limit in handling a deleted user’s personal info.

I see a related description like below in [the official document on privacy](https://www.discourse.org/privacy#heading--change).

> Closing your account starts a process of erasing or anonymizing CDCK’s records of data you provided for your account.

But, it is **not clear when the ‘process of erasing’ is finished.**

In the source code of Discourse, It seems that a module named [`UserDestroyer`](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/app/services/user_destroyer.rb#L15) is in charge of the deleting process. There is a comment line (L15) like this:

`# Returns a frozen instance of the User if the delete succeeded.`

So I think the ‘frozen instance’ should also be removed, to confirm all data of a deleted user are cleaned up. But I couldn’t figure out when the final termination process is executed.

Thank you in advance.  
Ernie