Account Deletion

[Richie]

Or change all usernames which request to be removed to "Private"

[Chippiewill]

Or merge all "Deleted" account into a special deleted accounts user so all posts have an owner yet none of the userdata remains. (Manual scrubbing of IPs still required..)

[Recursion]

Why are people so worried about IP addresses? They're harmless information and if the law wanted to they would ask your ISP for logs (usually kept for a good few years...)

Honestly the only thing I'd be worried about is my posts and my email address.

[GommeInc]

Technically you have to remove any personal or private information if the user requested it, as it is their data and not the company who is hosting or holding it. Personal information is only pictures, email addresses, home addresses, videos, names etc. Posts aren't recognisable data, nor are accounts. This is from what I gather in a book I read not so long ago on data protection, but I could be wrong

EDIT: Yep - accounts and posts are not involved as they become the property of Habbox. It's only illegal if Habbox uses your posts against you, or process your posts for malicious reasons e.g. combine the posts and your account with the personal information to use against you. If you've got your address plastered around your account somewhere, you can ask them to remove that, but they're not leally obliged to have to removethe account or the posts as they're not identifiable pieces of information that can identify you.

[Jordan:A]

The person has brought VIP though, well should I say, donated.
I'm sure they wouldn't be able to fully delete his account until this has ended.

[Casanova]

nope. it wouldn't affect the subscription, you can delete it as soon as you want.
Plus it's only a usergroup - you can move people in and out at will.

Either way, he's being highly silly.

[David]

The person has brought VIP though, well should I say, donated.
I'm sure they wouldn't be able to fully delete his account until this has ended.

They can add/remove accounts from user groups manually, too. So this wouldn't get in the way if the account were to be deleted, but it won't be deleted as it goes against Habbox T&C's

[HotelUser]

It's your own decision to register on a forum, make posts, buy donator and so on. As Scott said we don't mind removing email addresses or even concealing IPs as to ensure the protection of members. As far as deleting accounts goes that's our prerogative. We will safety ban accounts but we will not outright delete them, just like we will not outright delete any posts but simply move inappropriate posts out of any given thread.

Complaints are posted in the complaints forum for a reason, they are complaints and do not require specific commentary threads in the feedback forums especially where others are poking fun and debating the poster's OCD, or speculating on the poster of the complaint itself - that's why that poster posted in complaints in the first place.

Thread closed.