Reddit

What you type is a fraction of the profile: off-platform activity reports back and inferred attributes fill in the rest, held with no fixed end. Deleting the profile is account closure under another name, and a suspended account's identifiers can stay indefinitely.

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The verified route

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ID verification

Reddit routes identity checks to:

• Persona PURE VERIFIER THEIR STATED RETENTION Government ID and selfie data destroyed on completion of verification or within 3 years of the last interaction, per the client's instructions. IP addresses and device fingerprints also collected. Reported by UK users.

Provider terms from their published policies, read August 2026.

Self-serve privacy tools are available on their site.

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