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# How to delete your account
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If you wish you delete your account at a multi-user pod provider that runs the node-solid-server software
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(like currently https://solid.community and https://inrupt.net), you can do that as follows:
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### Browse to your pod
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Step 1 is to go to your pod with your web browser. In this example, the pod provider is https://solid.community
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and the username is 'demo-account-deletion'. So in that case you would go to https://demo-account-deletion.solid.community/.
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Make sure you include your username as a subdomain there, so not just https://solid.community/ which would be the
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pod provider's main page, not your account / pod.
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Fill in your own identity provider URL and insert your own username in there, just after the 'https://' part of the URL.
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![Screenshot login page](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/408412/66460161-a2ce9980-ea76-11e9-9412-150cde4c53cf.png)
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### Log in
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When you click 'Log in', it will ask you (in a pop-up window) which identity provider to log in with; choose your own pod, in this example
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'demo-account-deletion.solid.community'.
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![Screenshot choose provider](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/408412/66460171-a3ffc680-ea76-11e9-86b8-2fe43da4fa0e.png)
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And fill in your username and password to log in:
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![Screenshot username / password](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/408412/66460166-a3673000-ea76-11e9-95cb-e43de1b4be82.png)
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The pop-up will close, and you will be logged in:
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![Screenshot logged in](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/408412/66460749-d6f68a00-ea77-11e9-85ed-d05c914f998e.png)
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### Go to Preferences
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Click 'Preferences', which should take you to:
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![Screenshot preferences](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/408412/66460172-a3ffc680-ea76-11e9-8931-abe545485fa7.png)
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### Click 'Delete your account at ...'
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That should take you to:
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![Screenshot delete](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/408412/66460173-a4985d00-ea76-11e9-931d-5e02b57edf2c.png)
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Fill in your account name and click 'Send Delete Account link'. Note that as a security measure, this requires you (still) have access to the email
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address with which the account was created.
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![Screenshot send link](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/408412/66460174-a4985d00-ea76-11e9-930c-8fee9425a3f7.png)
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### Open your email
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When you click the link from the email, you should see this screen:
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![Screenshot confirm](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/408412/66460175-a4985d00-ea76-11e9-863c-3c71fcdd24c9.png)
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### Confirm deletion
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After which the account deletion will be complete:
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![Screenshot confirmed](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/408412/66460180-a530f380-ea76-11e9-9957-ee04ebd2c268.png)
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