Which is why an email would be sent as a precursor to avoid those who want to continue to use their accounts the chance to log in and stop their accounts being deleted.

Just bringing this up from the depths. Now that data protection has changed, I think it's worth looking at this again. I also saw something on the news about what Twitter have done with a similar issue regarding their inactive users and it got me thinking about our inactive users.

Obviously when we create an account, our personal data such as email, password, DoB etc is stored, which is absolutely fine while we're active.

We now give people the option to have their accounts deleted if they no longer want an account or don't want us to keep their data, which means we no longer hold their personal data and that's great, it complies with all the data protection regulations.

However, the inactive users that will have missed this change, will still have their accounts and their data being held, which they may not want.

Twitter have released a statement recently to say that any account that has been inactive for 3 months or more, will be deleted after a certain date, unless you log in before and complete the data protection and marketing questionnaire. This is because if you don't log in, you haven't given them permission to hold your data, haven't completed your data protection preferences, so to cover their backs they will remove your data.

I think that something similar should be done here, if possible. The best thing to do, would be to send an email that is automatically generated at maybe 2.5 months inactivity (10 weeks, similar to the fortnightly VIP email that is sent) saying that if at 3 months they have not logged in, they will be considered inactive and their account deleted so we are not holding their data. If they want to keep their account, they can then log in, and if not their account will be deleted at 3 months. That way we are covering our backs having informed the player their account is at risk of being deleted, and we are also not at risk of breaching any data protection regulations by having inactive users who would rather have deleted their accounts.

The other option is enabling an option to delete your own account, so if you no longer want to play you can just deleted your own account.