Marketing and retail
Delete your data from Amazon.com
What Amazon.com says about deleting your data and about selling it, taken from its own pages and read on October 4, 2026.
How to ask Amazon.com to delete your data
While signed in, open the close-account page, review the linked services, choose a reason, tick the box to permanently close the account and delete your data, then submit. A confirmation arrives by email or text and must be answered within five days.
- Where to ask
- A form or account page
- How it confirms it's you
- Asks you to confirm by replying to a message sent to the email or phone on the account; generally verifies using contact details already provided.
- How long it says it takes
- Median about 27 days for 2025 deletion requests
- What it may keep
- Says it is legally required to keep some data, such as order history, and holds it under tax, accounting and fraud-prevention rules.
What Amazon.com says about selling your data
Amazon.com's privacy policy describes selling or sharing some personal information.
Amazon says it is not in the business of selling customer information and reports no sales, but describes sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising.
Where this comes from
Amazon.com's own pages, read on October 4, 2026. Ghostifier has not tested these steps, and companies change their pages, so check the page before you rely on it.
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