This service will continue using anonymized user-generated content after erasure of personal information

If you delete your account or your information from this service, user-generated content such as comments and posts will remain and still be used, but on a pseudonymized or anonymized form so that they can't be linked back to you.

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Service Title Rating Status Author
Airbnb "li> <li>Information you have shared with others (e.g., Reviews, forum postings) will continue to be publicly visible on Airbnb, even after your Airbnb Account is cancelled. However, attribution of such information to you will be removed" APPROVED Michael Lv. 9 Curator
Guerrilla Mail " <p>We may use anonymized email data for further anti-spam, anti-malware or anti-phishing research. Only email data that is obvious spam is used for this research." DECLINED jurius Lv. 4
Brainly "We may also share information with others in an aggregated or otherwise anonymized form that does not reasonably identify you directly as an individual." DECLINED (deactivated) Lv. 30 Suspended
Discogs "If You exercise Your right to erasure or deletion of personal information pursuant to Our Privacy Policy, (i) Your user-generated content will be anonymized by having the username replaced by a generic term (i.e., "previous user1234" or simply "user1234"), and (ii) We are entitled to continue using this anonymized user-generated content pursuant to the rights granted above.</p>" APPROVED Michael Lv. 9 Curator
ToS;DR "When cancelling your account, we scramble your data in our database so you cannot recover your account and we don't lose your contributions" DECLINED Michael Lv. 9 Curator
Cover your Tracks "Sharing of Cover Your Tracks data" DECLINED wolfgang8741 Lv. 5
TWINT "If there are no legal or contractual obligations to the contrary, we delete or anonymise your data after the storage or processing period has expired." DECLINED welda Lv. 33 Curator
Mapillary "<p>If there is data that could be understood as Personal Data included in Content, e.g. faces of individuals or license plates of vehicles, we use automatic blurring of faces and plates to avoid any identification of individuals before posting on the Website." APPROVED arlo Lv. 13 Staff
Google "You can also delete <a href="https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity">activity information</a> saved in your account, or <a href="https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/465?authuser=0#auto-delete">choose to have it deleted automatically</a> after a set period of time. We’ll keep this data in your Google Account until you remove it or choose to have it removed.</li> <li>Other data is deleted or anonymized automatically after a set period of time, such as <a href="https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads">advertising data</a> in server logs.</li>" DECLINED Dr_Jeff Lv. 96 Staff
Sudomemo "Any content previously associated with your account is no longer publicly attributed to you or searchable under your profile.</li> <li>Internal copies of files may persist in our systems for a period of time (for example, in backup or archival storage) but are inaccessible to other users and are not linked to your account.</li> <li>This retention is necessary to maintain platform stability, comply with legal requirements, and protect against abuse." APPROVED Dr_Jeff Lv. 96 Staff
YouTube "Other data is deleted or anonymized automatically after a set period of time, such as <a href="https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads">advertising data</a> in server logs." DECLINED Dr_Jeff Lv. 96 Staff
Arch Linux "In case you delete your account, we store your entries based on our legitimate interest of a consistent forums according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR, but we anonymize the author of your entries." APPROVED Dr_Jeff Lv. 96 Staff
CachyOS "Upon account deletion, posts will remain anonymized.</p>" APPROVED Dr_Jeff Lv. 96 Staff
Discourse "Closing your account starts a process of erasing or anonymizing CDCK’s records of data you provided for your account. Forum administrators can also erase and anonymize accounts.</p>" APPROVED Dr_Jeff Lv. 96 Staff
Minerank "Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases.</li> </ul> <p>However, we may retain some information in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our legal terms, and/or comply with applicable legal requirements.</p>" APPROVED Dr_Jeff Lv. 96 Staff
SmartPay Rewards (Cumberland Farms) "We have no obligation to re-identify information or to keep Personal Information longer than we need it or are required to by applicable law to retain it to comply with access requests." APPROVED Dr_Jeff Lv. 96 Staff
Chess.com "You can request to permanently delete your PI by clicking on “Delete“ on the “<a href="https://www.chess.com/my-data">My Data</a>“ section of the Services. In this case, we will delete or anonymize your PI, and the information that will remain public such as games statistics, posts and comments, and block your email address and social media accounts from being used on Chess.com in the future. Anonymized data is no longer considered personal information under privacy laws, it cannot be reasonably used to identify you as an individual.</p> <p>Please note that in cases where a user's account has been closed due to violations of our Terms of Service, we may retain certain PI, such as the username, in a non-anonymized form." APPROVED Dr_Jeff Lv. 96 Staff
Mattermost "The deletion of Customer Data and other use of the Services by Customer may result in the deletion and/or de-identification of certain personal information and other information." APPROVED Dr_Jeff Lv. 96 Staff
BeWelcome "When your membership is cancelled, your profile, gallery and trips will be deleted. Your community contributions – that is, content that you shared with others during your membership – will remain visible. This includes, but is not limited to, posts in the BeWelcome forum and groups, comments left on the profiles of other members, and activities you created." APPROVED ThePainofTOS Lv. 38 Curator
Open Food Facts "The database is published in its entirety under an open data license, which is one of the primary goals of the project. It only contains the user's identifier as well as the products he added and modified, products possibly located in a country.</p> <p>When deleting the user account, the user ID is replaced with a random but unique username for that user. All other personal data is deleted." PENDING ThePainofTOS Lv. 38 Curator


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