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The quickest way to delete an account is to just click on the “delete account” button. There are two problems, though:

1. often, there is no button

2. if there is, it is hidden somewhere in the most remote corners of the settings.

Below, I reported how I attempt to overcome this itchy obstacles.

Base knowledge

To get this itchy thing done in the quickest and most painless way possible, just check JustDeleteMe. To first retrieve your data, visit JustGetMyData. It might be possible that on those great websites the service you intend to quit is not present. This is how stuff get tricky.

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JustGetMyData

Firstly, you gotta find the Privacy Policy page of the provider and look for an email address that looks like privacy@<nameoftheprovider>.com. Secondly, you have to write to this address the message which follows, claiming our GDPR rights.

GDPR rights

There are two kind of emails:

• if you do not care to recover your data and activity from the account
• if you want to request portability (which means asking to get all the things they have about you), too.

To facilitate this process, I have stumbled upon Own Your Data, it appears to be interesting but I did not have the chance to use it yet.

Own Your Data

Documentation

• Fac-simile Garante Privacy, for Italians, in Italian

English

Portability and Erasure

Good afternoon, I would like to claim my GDPR rights of access, erasure, portability (Art. 15, Art. 17 and Art. 20 respectively) by receiving a copy of all my data in your possession. After that, I request the complete and permanent deletion of my account and the complete erasure from your database of all the data linked to it.  After the erasure has taken place, I request also the deletion of the record of these emails.

Thank you very much.
Best regards.

Erasure only

Good evening, I would like to claim my GDPR rights of access, erasure, portability (Art. 15, Art. 17 and Art. 20 respectively) requesting the complete erasure my account and email address and the permanent deletion from your database of all the data related to it. After the erasure has taken place, I request also the deletion of the record of these email communication.

Thank you very much.
Best regards.

Italiano

Portabilità ed eliminazione

Buongiorno, in accordo con il regolamento GDPR, desidererei esercitare il mio diritto di accesso, eliminazione e portabilità dei dati (rispettivamente trattati negli articoli 15, 17 e 20) ricevendo una copia di tutti i miei dati in vostro possesso e conseguentemente richiedendo la completa eliminazione di questi dal vostro database, insieme a tutte le informazioni ad essi collegate, così come lo storico di tutte le mie attività. A seguito dell'eliminazione dell'account, desidero richiedere anche la totale eliminazione del registro di questa email e di questo scambio.

Grazie mille.
Cordiali Saluti.

Solo eliminazione

Buongiorno, in accordo con il regolamento GDPR, desidererei esercitare il mio diritto di accesso, eliminazione e portabilità dei dati (rispettivamente trattati negli articoli 15, 17 e 20) richiedendo la completa eliminazione del mio account dal vostro database, insieme a tutti i dati ad esso collegati, così come lo storico di tutte le mie attività. A seguito dell'eliminazione dell'account, desidero richiedere anche la totale eliminazione di questo scambio di email.
    
Grazie mille.
Cordiali Saluti.