How to delete your Kickstarter account

Because the only route Kickstarter documents is its hosted privacy center, not account settings. Its current help article says to visit the Privacy Policy at legal.kickstarter.com, click 'Make a Privacy Request' in the top right, and select 'Delete all my data'. Older guides around the web point at Settings; the official instructions no longer do, so use the privacy center.

No. Kickstarter's support documentation is explicit: deleting your account will not automatically hide or delete any project you've created, and will not remove your name, comments or updates from your own projects. Its stated policy is that projects are never removed from the site — they remain 'for reference and transparency', and cannot be deleted even if cancelled or unsuccessful. Your creator bio will indicate the profile was deleted, but backers can still view the project page, comments and updates. You can submit a request to Support asking them to consider hiding a project from public view, but Kickstarter warns it won't be able to accommodate all requests.

You break the creator's ability to ship to you. Kickstarter's own article says deletion removes your name as a backer from every successful project you supported and that this 'will likely make it impossible for creators to send you rewards', because they lose access to the information needed to fulfil. Kickstarter recommends contacting the creator first to coordinate off-site communication. If a project is still live, cancel the pledge instead — but once the campaign has ended and collection has started, the pledge is locked in and deleting won't refund it.

No. Kickstarter states account deletion is not reversible and any information deleted will no longer be retrievable. There is no grace period, no reactivation window, and no 'deactivate' state at all. The one thing deletion gives back is the email address: Kickstarter's own guidance on consolidating multiple accounts suggests deleting accounts you no longer want in order to 'free up an email address' — while warning that this also deletes that account's entire backed projects history.

Go to legal.kickstarter.com, click 'Make a Privacy Request' in the top right, click 'Download all my data', enter your account email and click 'Send Email'. Kickstarter emails you a link to log into the privacy center and confirm; once the export is compiled you get a second email with a download link. The result is a .ZIP file whose contents are in .CSV format, including all your pledge details. Do this before deleting — it is the only record you'll have of what you backed, and Kickstarter warns it may take some time to prepare.

Yes. Kickstarter says profiles are private by default: go to the 'Edit profile' tab under Settings, scroll to the bottom to the 'Privacy' heading, and make sure the checkbox is ticked. Kickstarter also says profile pages aren't searchable on Kickstarter and can't be found through search engines like Google — but note that whenever your account name appears on the site, on a comment or a message, someone can click it to reach a public profile. Two catches: creators cannot set their full profile to private ('for transparency'), and once you have launched a project your profile display name can no longer be edited.

No. When you back a project the creator sees your profile name, pledge amount, reward tier, any add-ons and your shipping country; if the project funds they also get the email address on your account, plus whatever you enter in their Pledge Manager or Backer Survey — typically your mailing address and item preferences. Creators download all of this as a backer report. Deleting your Kickstarter account revokes their future access on the platform but does nothing to the copies already in their hands. There is one built-in limit: Kickstarter says a creator's access to the backer report expires two years from the project's latest estimated delivery date, after which they can no longer export it or view backer personal information without a reviewed Trust & Safety request. To have data already exported erased, contact the creator directly; Kickstarter's data protection officer can be reached at [email protected].