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Delete your data from Spotify
What Spotify says about deleting your data and about selling it, taken from its own pages and read on October 4, 2026.
How to ask Spotify to delete your data
Use the Close your account and delete your data link on Spotify's support page. Spotify emails a link to reactivate within 7 days; after that the deletion process starts. Other deletion requests can go to Spotify's privacy contact.
- Where to ask
- In your account settings
- How it confirms it's you
- Asks for certain details tied to your Spotify account; people without an account cannot be verified.
- How long it says it takes
- Reports a 2025 average of 15.47 days for deletion requests
- What it may keep
- Says it cannot delete data still needed for its original purpose, fraud protection, a legal obligation or legal claims.
What Spotify says about selling your data
Spotify's privacy policy describes selling or sharing some personal information.
Spotify describes tailored advertising as what some states call sharing or selling for cross-context behavioral advertising; opt out via the Tailored Ads setting or footer link.
Where this comes from
Spotify'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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