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How do I manage emails and close my account?

Control your notices, update your sign-in address, or delete your account and data.

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Manage your notices

Each notice type includes its own unsubscribe link. You can also go to /account/notifications to turn notices on or off and set how often you receive them.

Some emails always come to you: receipts, refunds, payment problems, listing holds and security notices. You cannot stop these.

Update your sign-in address

You change it yourself at /account/email: enter the new address and your password, then press the button in the two emails we send, one to each address. Your sign-in email changes when both are confirmed; other browsers are signed out and a confirmation goes to the old address. Without access to the current inbox, send a request from /help and we check it is you.

Delete your account, profile and personal details

You close your account yourself at /account/privacy: choose 'Close your account', read what will happen, then confirm with your sign-in email and password. Your listings are unpublished, your personal data is removed and you are signed out everywhere. This cannot be undone and paid listings are not refunded; your statutory rights are not affected.

/account/privacy gives you one zip file with everything we hold, invoices included.

Invoices are kept for as long as the law requires. How we handle personal data is explained in /privacy.

Questions people ask

Can I stop getting receipts and security notices?
No. Receipts, refunds, payment problems, listing holds and security notices are always sent. You can turn off other notice types at /account/notifications.
What happens when I ask to close my account?
At /account/privacy, 'Close your account' does it once you confirm with your sign-in email and password: listings unpublished, personal data removed, invoices kept as the law requires. There is no undo.
How do I change which address signs me in?
Go to /account/email and type the new address. We email both the old and the new address; press the button in each to confirm, and the change is made. The old address can cancel it from its email.

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