How to do it and what to look out for

The company Amazon operates the largest online mail order business in the world. With its services and its own products, the group binds users to itself. If you want to get rid of it, you should consider a few important things.

Amazon collects a lot of data about users to better understand their shopping behavior. If you don’t feel comfortable with this or want to delete the account for another reason, you can do that quite easily. It is sufficient to request the deletion of the user account and the associated data from Amazon.

What to Consider Before Deleting Amazon Account

Before you delete Amazon account, there are a few things to consider. It is not possible to remove only the account for a specific country, such as “amazon.com” or “amazon.it”. The termination of the user account affects all Amazon shops, regardless of the country. Not only that: all other accesses to Amazon services disappear with the account. These include, for example, Prime Video, Audible, Kindle and Amazon Music. Of course, this does not apply to access that uses other login data.

What happens to linked devices?

All devices linked to the Amazon account will also no longer have access to Amazon services. These include Amazon Echo, Fire tablets and Fire TVs, as well as Kindle e-readers. In the case of Amazon Echo, a large part of the functionality is also lost, since an Amazon account is required to use skills, alarms and lists. Access to the Kindle Store is lost on the e-reader. The same applies to the Amazon Appstore on Fire tablets. Fire TV devices no longer have access to Prime Video, Amazon Music, and the Appstore.

What happens to purchases and credits?

Movies and series rented or purchased from Prime Video are no longer accessible after the Amazon account has been deleted. The same applies to books bought on Kindle. Audible audiobooks are also no longer available – regardless of whether they were purchased or paid for with credit. Photos and videos stored in Amazon Photos should be downloaded before closing the account. The same applies to any credit in the Amazon shop, Audible and other Amazon services. If you don’t spend it, you lose it. After deletion, the account and all associated Amazon services are no longer accessible and cannot be restored. In order to be able to use the Amazon shop or services again, a new account is required.

Other services belonging to Amazon are also affected by the account deletion. This includes, for example, comixology. All purchased comics, subscriptions and vouchers are then no longer accessible.

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Some user data will remain even after deleting the Amazon account

However, with the closure of the Amazon account, not all data that the company has from its users actually disappears. The group points out that it decides for itself which user information is retained. This includes transaction data such as customer names, the products ordered, date, price, delivery address, payment method and sales tax.

How to permanently delete your Amazon account

1. Follow this link: amazon.de/privacy/data-deletion. All services from which your data will be removed by deleting the Amazon account will appear on the page.

2. Scroll down to the notice that “Account closure is permanent”.

3. If you want, choose a reason for the account deletion. Then check the box “Yes, I want to permanently close my Amazon account and delete my data.”

What to consider when deleting Amazon account
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4. Now the button close my account selectable.

5. You will now receive an email or text message to confirm the deletion. This is the last hurdle to permanently delete Amazon account and all related data.

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