How can I just delete my profile for Apple Communities?

Finally someone helps him and not make silly jokes. Every post up until this one has made a joke about him or some comment that isn't helpful. Please only post stuff that is helpful instead of making fun of the guy.

The normal approach would to be turn off any features that might result in you receiving email from activity in areas that you have followed, or unfollow those topics and communities. See this post for a description of how to do this. You would leave the account extant for the next occasion when you want help from the community.

I see no personal data connected to your account, and the terms and conditions cover Apple's ongoing use of your question and the answers to it that they might help others. I can see you joined July 26th (you could hide that) and you made one other thread apart from this one. Your chosen username means nothing unless you have used it in other circles (Google says not). Your anonymity is secure. Nevertheless I shall mark this post for the attention of the hosts and let them know of your request.

tt2

Go into the account and change all the data to meaningless values. You could change to email to something meaningless. Should apple check out the validity of the email account, you get a gmail email account. I have a spam email account just for cases like this.

this is a good use of the old garbage in garbage out.

R

I would assume that Apple will comply with European laws when they become effective 2 years from now. The terms and features for these communities may then change to incorporate such new laws. As of now, the terms do not include erasing your account; keeping a record of an account is required by American law, especially if you used the same Apple ID as you might have for iTunes or app purchases. That needs to be kept for corporate tax/income purposes. So, making the suggested changes to your account will suffice nicely until such time as the laws are changed.

I would like to refer to the Apple Terms of Service that says this a user to user forum and quoting EU regulations that are not in effect for 2 more years does not affect us as it pertains to your account.

EU regs have no bearing on ASC.

Apple is a US company.

ASC originates from primary Apple servers in the US.

All other arguments are moot as US law has jurisdiction.

Follow tt2's and rccharles' advice and remove your personal info to taste and forget it.

You accepted the terms and conditions for Apple Support Communities. In particular this:

License to Use Submission. By sending a Submission to the Site you agree to grant Apple a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive worldwide right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, make available to the public, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to the Submission. If you do not want to grant to Apple the rights set out above, do not send your Submission to the Site.

I've explained already how you can turn off any features that cause the site to send you email. There is no personal information about you other than that which you choose to share. I also asked the hosts to make contact with regard to your account. Check your email in case a message from them has been treated as spam.

Have you read my message in your Deleted Mails Reappear thread yet? Frankly I'm surprised that you seem to be more interested in this topic than that one. 😕

tt2

Great. With luck that should resolve it. 🙂

tt2

I think, your argument on corporate tax might apply for the iTunes and Apple store Sites but not for the Communities.

To be honest, I am not quite sure since I have not studied corporate tax law in particular, but since the Apple ID is "one account" doing many different things, it may be.

And, although Apple is an American company, they still have to comply with other countries' laws (which, as an example, has been evident in the new additional legalese wording in their country-specific warranties since they lost re. the Applecare in Italy a few years back). Contrary to that, you did agree to the terms for these forums/sites, which are quite specific - I also do not know if there will be a change or agreement with other worldwide companies when the new law becomes effective. As the access to places around the world is only a click away, they need to keep in mind that anyone can access their site from anywhere and will need to come to a mutually agreeable way that will honor other countries' laws or lose business/sales if they insist on only their own rules.