From d9476cac628b3384e3f78c19ace204f08c1a6658 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 20:15:43 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Issue 870: Clarified description of the account removal activity --- doc/Remove-Account.md | 18 +++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/Remove-Account.md b/doc/Remove-Account.md index eab4ab059b..9f0ac287f2 100644 --- a/doc/Remove-Account.md +++ b/doc/Remove-Account.md @@ -11,13 +11,13 @@ 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 blocked to all probing. -Unlike some social networks we do **not** hold onto it for a grace period in case you change your mind. -All your content and user data, etc is instantly removed. -For all intents and purposes, the account is gone in moments. +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 on short term. -We then send out an "unfriend" signal to all of your contacts. -This signal deletes all content on those networks. -Unfortunately, due to limitations of the other networks, this only works well with Friendica contacts. -We allow four days for this, in case some servers were down and the unfriend signal was queued. -After this, we finish off deleting the account. +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 last 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.