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[friendica.git] / doc / Remove-Account.md

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 * [Home](help)
 
-We don't like to see people leave Friendika, but if you need to remove your account, you should visit the URL
+We don't like to see people leave Friendica, but if you need to remove your account, you should visit the URL
 
-http://friendika-site/removeme
+http://sitename/removeme
 
-with your web browser. You will need to be logged in at the time.  (Replace "friendika-site" with the hostname of your Friendika server)
+with your web browser.
+You will need to be logged in at the time.
 
-You will be asked for your password to confirm the request. If this matches your stored password, your account will immediately be removed. Unlike some social networks we do **not** hold onto it for a grace period in case you change your mind. Your user details, your conversations, your photos, your friends - everything; will be removed immediately and you will be logged out. 
+You will be asked for your password to confirm the request.
+If this matches your stored password, your account will immediately be marked as deleted.
+There is no grace period, this action cannot be reverted.
+Most of your content and user data will be deleted shortly in the background.
 
+We then send out a notification about the account removal to all of your contacts so that they can do the same with their copy of your data.
+
+For technical reasons some of your user data is still needed to transmit this removal message.
+This remaining data will be deleted after a period of around seven days.
+
+To disallow impersonation we have to save your used nickname, so that it can't be used again to register on this node.