From d9476cac628b3384e3f78c19ace204f08c1a6658 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 20:15:43 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] 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. From 7e9f4becc0421de7555e7b50afc33ca76cf30cf2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 20:37:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Improvements --- doc/Remove-Account.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/Remove-Account.md b/doc/Remove-Account.md index 9f0ac287f2..2ca7840597 100644 --- a/doc/Remove-Account.md +++ b/doc/Remove-Account.md @@ -18,6 +18,6 @@ Most of your content and user data will be deleted on short term. 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. +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 disallow impersonation we have to save your used nickname, so that it can't be used again to register on this node. From 8852e26e9ce1e499f7d5fa3e0beaa7076ef77c20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 20:56:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] And another documentation improvment --- doc/Remove-Account.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/Remove-Account.md b/doc/Remove-Account.md index 2ca7840597..21e0ebf7e0 100644 --- a/doc/Remove-Account.md +++ b/doc/Remove-Account.md @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ 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 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. +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.