# Hoe tos/privacy-onderwerpen te ontgenereren?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-ungenerate-tos-privacy-topics/367789
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [27 mei 2025 om 15:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-ungenerate-tos-privacy-topics/367789 "2025-05-27T15:59:23Z")
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### Author:  [@TempAccount](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TempAccount)
#### Post date: [27 mei 2025 om 15:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-ungenerate-tos-privacy-topics/367789/1 "2025-05-27T15:59:23Z")
Permanently deleting is possible, but it still shows the tab on the /about page. How would one get rid of it completely?
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [27 mei 2025 om 16:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-ungenerate-tos-privacy-topics/367789/2 "2025-05-27T16:19:13Z")
I think if you remove the `company name` you’ve set in the admin settings then those tabs magically disappear again. 🪄 🙂
(Unless you’ve set overrides in `tos url` and/or `privacy policy url`, otherwise you’d need to remove those as well)
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### Author:  [@TempAccount](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TempAccount)
#### Post date: [27 mei 2025 om 16:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-ungenerate-tos-privacy-topics/367789/3 "2025-05-27T16:34:34Z")
I’d cleared all those fields and it still stays. Does it matter if you edited the post?
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [27 mei 2025 om 17:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-ungenerate-tos-privacy-topics/367789/4 "2025-05-27T17:01:50Z")
Ah yes, it does appear that making an edit to them makes them more sticky.
To get round this, I used the ‘replace text’ option on the `/admin/customize/site_texts` page to replace the edited ones. Then I added a value to `company name`, saved, and then reset that setting - and that seemed to make them disappear again. Hopefully you’ll have similar success. 🤞 🙂
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### Author:  [@TempAccount](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TempAccount)
#### Post date: [27 mei 2025 om 17:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-ungenerate-tos-privacy-topics/367789/5 "2025-05-27T17:20:02Z")
Hmmm. I think i broke something when permanently deleting the topic via rails console.
The replace text throws an error for me.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [27 mei 2025 om 17:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-ungenerate-tos-privacy-topics/367789/6 "2025-05-27T17:27:25Z")
I think you may have done. 🙂 Side-stepping the UI and deleting the (supposedly) undeletable topics can have some unforeseen consequences. 🙂
Though it’s an easy fix. 🥳 🙂 (using the rails console)
There are a couple of hidden site settings where you’ll need to replace the topic\_id for a ‘new’ topic you can have in its place.
There’s a bit more detail in this post - [How to regenerate FAQ and TOS pages? - #2 by gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-regenerate-faq-and-tos-pages/110625/2)
And here’s the hidden settings guide - [Hidden Site Settings Reference Guide](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hidden-site-settings-reference-guide/308774)
The two you want are `privacy_topic_id` and `tos_topic_id`
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### Author:  [@TempAccount](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TempAccount)
#### Post date: [27 mei 2025 om 17:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-ungenerate-tos-privacy-topics/367789/7 "2025-05-27T17:37:08Z")
> [@JammyDodger](#):
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> There’s a bit more detail in this post - [How to regenerate FAQ and TOS pages? - #2 by gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-regenerate-faq-and-tos-pages/110625/2)
yep this one did the trick!
I am slowly crawling back up after digging that hole and diving head-first into it 😊
…and the replace worked! Thanks @JammyDodger!
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [27 mei 2025 om 17:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-ungenerate-tos-privacy-topics/367789/8 "2025-05-27T17:47:13Z")
> [@TempAccount](#):
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> I am slowly crawling back up after digging that hole and diving head-first into it 😊
You’re certainly not the first. 🙂 I’m glad that’s done the job. 🎉 🎈
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [26 juni 2025 om 17:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-ungenerate-tos-privacy-topics/367789/9 "2025-06-26T17:47:15Z")
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