Why did you create AccountKiller?
On many sites we experienced it's hard or often impossible to cancel one's account. The question \how to delete my ... account' is asked many times in search engines. Answers can be found on many sites, mostly fragmented. One central point to easily find the fastest way would be nice. There you go, here you are. Additionally we created some kind of ranking ('white', 'grey' and 'black' sites).

What do the (site, list) colours indicate? (white, grey, black)
On a white-listed site, it should be easy to automatically delete your account. Perhaps with a couple of clicks, using a deletion link.
A black-listed site indicates it's probably impossible or highly difficult to get rid of your account. In some cases we hand you an email address so you can contact the site anyway. Otherwise, you may visit the site and search for contact information, and ask them for account removal.
Finally, the grey-listed sites are somewhere inbetween. It may cost your some irritation or effort - but it should be possible to terminate your account. This is the case when you need to send a mail to the site, send a message using a webform or even ring them.

Why do sites often make it difficult or even impossible to delete your account?
The answer is often: customer retention. In other words, they wish to make money with your data. However, for a market to function efficiently, transparency is required. If sites are not transparent, you will incur some loss: time, money, and... your mood.
Alternatively, developers may simply be ignorant, lazy or incompetent, i.e. not being able to create some account deletion function.

On sites with lots of messages, comments, etc., deleting an account and its messages can ruin a stream of text or delicious discussion. What about that?
That may be so, by deleting both the user and the comments. Another solution is to delete the account, but leave the message, replacing the user name/info by 'Deleted User'. This can be seen more often, these days.

How about data retention after I deleted my account somewhere?
It usually takes even more effort to go through Terms of Service, User Agreements, Privacy Pages and the like, to find this out (if, at all, such info is presented). AccountKiller's first purpose is to get rid of your account. If, during the deletion process, the site clearly mentions all your info will be deleted, we may mention this. Otherwise: sorry, you gotta read those darn terms. If you find it useful, add such info in a remark on one of our specific deletion pages.

Is your service commercial?
We don't intend to create a thick bank account with it. The primary objective is to create transparency and relieve stress. Any money gathered is used to keep the site alive (i.e. keep the servers running somehow).

How can I support the site?
There are three ways.
1. Surely you can add comments at the bottom of one of the specific account deletion pages. Perhaps you noticed a mistake or have additional information.
2. Many people send us requests for adding sites, for creating an even more complete overview. You could do so too. Click 'Submit a site' in the main menu. Be brief, complete and write in English please.
3. Consider a donation.

I submitted a site, but it's not present. What's up?
Many people submit sites. Perhaps we simply didn't have time to check it yet. Or the information was incomplete. Or it's in a language we don't understand. Please submit them in English.

Some deletion instruction pages are in language X, but the instruction text is in language Y?!
To reach more people, the page templates are in a couple of languages. But we don't speak all of them. Most instructions are in English anyway, we suppose nearly everyone speaks it. Otherwise, use e.g. Google Translate.

What kind of statistics do you keep for your site?
In order to track the usage habits of our visitors, we collect information using Google Analytics - such as your IP address, your ISP (internet service provider), your web browser, the time you visited the site, and which pages you viewed during your visit. We do not gather or store any information which can be used to identify you personally (such as your name, email address, physical address, telephonenumber, bank account number or credit card numbers).

How about Google AdSense advertisements and their cookies?
We use Google AdSense to help support the running of this site. Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve advertisements on this site. Google advertisements make use of the DoubleClick DART cookie. This enables Google and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the internet. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy. Also see http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/.

How can I contact you guys?
Mail us at info@accountkiller.com - we'll be delighted to talk to you.

Who the heck is Ria Bava?!
Sorry, we don't know her.