Account Deletion Policy and How to Unsubscribe!

[Peter Walker]

User Account Deletion Policy

We have introduced the following account deletion policy. If you believe your account may have been deleted, please check here first.

As with any forum with thousands of user accounts, there are always those who sign up for an account and then never use it, as well as those who change email accounts and do not update it here. As it is important to keep our membership records as clean as possible, we delete accounts causing problems as follows:

Accounts not fully Registered (Pending)

Signing on to the Rife Forum involves registering online and then confirming your email address by clicking on a link in an email sent to you automatically by the forum. This form of confirming email addresses is very common and found on most forum systems.

Unfortunately, many people register for an account, yet then do not confirm their email address. Our system does send out reminders and the user can request the activation email to be resent here.

We delete such unconfirmed accounts after 2 months. The applicant can then resubmit their registration.

Once the email address has been confirmed by the user, it then has to be finally approved by the admin - this usually occurs within 48 hours.

If the application has not been entered properly, such accounts may be deleted instead of being approved. In this case, an email is sent to the applicant stating that the account has been deleted.

The reasons for such deletion are usually:

• Registration appears to be from a spammer, etc.
• We always use real names as user names on this forum. Some people initially enter pseudonyms instead of their real names in the user name field. We then try to determine the real name and correct the user name accordingly. If the real name cannot be determined, the account is rejected (deleted). The applicant can then reapply for membership properly.
• If the reasons for membership have not been properly given, this may lead to rejection. We have found that most people who refuse to summarize why they want to join in a few words, are usually some kind of spammer. Each case is assessed individually.

Registered Accounts (Full members)

We regularly check user accounts to determine if they are still active and valid. Once a year, the forum system automatically sends out a message to each user congratulating them on their birthday. As well as expressing our good wishes to our active members, this also allows us to determine when as email account is no longer valid. If our birthday message to the user bounces (is sent back to us because the email cannot be delivered), we then look closely at the reason for the bounce and the user accounts usage as follows:

• Users that have never posted, nor visited the forum since registration or within the past two years: Such accounts will be deleted, directly.
• Users that have never posted, yet are still actively using the forum (visited the forum within two years): Such accounts will be put in the "Bouncing Email" status.
• Users that have made at least one or more posts, yet not visited the forum for two or more years: We look at the posts to determine their relevance. If the posts are simply "Hello" posts with nothing of importance said, we generally delete those posts and the member account. If interesting posts have been made, we instead put the account into "Bouncing Email" status.
• Users that have made at least one or more posts, and are still actively using the forum (visited the forum within two years): Such accounts will be put in the "Bouncing Email" status.
• Users that used to be active and have suddenly stopped posting: We try to determine if the user is still alive and if we discover they are deceased, their account is put into "† Deceased †" status. We preserve the posts and "† Deceased †" is displayed next to each post, preserving their legacy.
• Report a Member is Deceased: If you are a family member with access to the account and want to set the account to Deceased status, Click here to go to account settings. select the "† Deceased †" group and click on the Join Group button. That is all.

Notes:

• Bouncing Email status is a special user group for accounts put on hold until the users come back to the forum (we cannot contact them as their email accounts do not work). When such users login, they are informed that their email accounts are bouncing and they have the chance to enter a new email account. Their user account can then be reinstated.
• Deleted user accounts cannot be restored. You can however register for a new user account. It is possible to restore access to any previously made posts. Personal messages (PM) however are lost and cannot be restored.
• † Deceased † users cannot generally be reinstated, unless they have been reincarnated or a family member wishes to continue using the account. If you have come back from the dead, please contact the admin directly. Still voting in US elections is not proof of reincarnation.

How to Unsubscribe from the Rife Forum
You are a member of the Rife Forum and wish to unsubscribe from the newsletter or even leave the forum entirely? No problem, this is how you do it:

Look at the end of our latest Newsletter and you will see a link to unsubscribe. Click on the respective link and you can unsubscribe - no login needed.
Not received a newsletter recently, then you can of course still unsubscribe - you just need to be able to login to your account as follows:

Unsubscribe from the Newsletter - remain a member of the Rife Forum:
Click here, then select "Rife Forum Newsletter" where you can select "No" to unsubscribe from future newsletters or "Yes" if you want it again. Finally, click on the "Save Changes" button at the bottom of the page.

Unsubscribe from the Rife Forum - Leave the Rife Forum, forever:
Click here, then select "Unsubscribe" and finally click on the "Join Group" button.



Summary:

In order to ensure you keep your user account on the Rife Forum, make sure your email account given in your profile is active and working. Please also ensure that any anti-spam system allows our emails to get through.

If your account was working before, but now appears to have been deleted, have you had a birthday since your last visit, yet did not receive our good wishes? Bouncing birthday messages tell us your email account is inactive and we usually delete your account according to the criteria given above. Making at least one post means we will not delete your account so quickly.

If you did not receive an email from us congratulating you on your birthday, then it is likely our email to you bounced back to us and your account has consequently been deleted.

I hope this explains are account deletion policy properly.