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R6 · Readers

Emails and your data

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Choose the emails you get, delete a guest application's data and see what deleting your account does.

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Before you start

  • Sign in to change your Hamsterra newsletter preference.
  • Have a Hamsterra email with an Email preferences link to manage author emails.
  • To delete a guest application’s data, have its personal link from a Hamsterra email ready.

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Chapters

  1. Open Account settings from the menu at the top.
  2. Select Emails.
  3. Select Unsubscribe to stop the newsletter.
  4. Open Email preferences in an email.Current chapter
  5. Check what the link can turn off.
  6. Select Leave the reader list.
  7. Your follows and books stay.
  8. Applied as a guest? Open your personal link.
  9. Check what we delete and what we keep.
  10. Type DELETE and select Delete my data.
  11. To delete your account, open Account in Settings.
  12. See what is kept in the privacy policy.
  13. That's the end of the reader videos.

Transcript

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  1. You decide which emails you get and what happens to your data.
  2. In this video, you'll change your email settings and delete the data from a guest application.
  3. Open Account settings from the menu at the top.
  4. Select Emails. Here you choose whether to get the Hamsterra newsletter.
  5. Emails about your account, applications and campaigns are sent either way.
  6. Select Unsubscribe. You can subscribe again here at any time.
  7. You can manage invitations, review reminders and reader-list membership through links in Hamsterra emails.
  8. Open the mailing list confirmation and select Email preferences.
  9. This page opens without signing in, and the link works for 90 days.
  10. It shows the emails this link can turn off: invitations from this author, their reader list, and invitations from every author on Hamsterra.
  11. Select Leave the reader list. The author no longer gets your address in their reader list exports.
  12. If they already email you from their own service, use the unsubscribe link in those emails too.
  13. These choices don't change the authors you follow, and they never cancel a book you already received.
  14. Applied as a guest? Open your personal link from a Hamsterra email.
  15. Under Your data, select Delete my data.
  16. Your personal details, application answers, review links and feedback are erased.
  17. Downloads stop at once, and your copies are deleted soon after.
  18. Hamsterra keeps your application without your details, a Copy ID record for up to six months, and unsubscribe and bounce records.
  19. Type DELETE and select Delete my data. Your guest link stops working at once.
  20. Anything the author already exported is not affected.
  21. With an account, open Account in Settings.
  22. Deleting your account removes your email address, name, sign-in methods, follows and access to every copy, and erases your details from your applications, along with review links and private feedback.
  23. Hamsterra may ask you to confirm it's you first.
  24. Select privacy policy to see what is kept, and why.
  25. To ask for a copy of your data, email the privacy address under Your rights.
  26. That's the end of the reader videos. Happy reading.

Written steps (text version of this video)

This walkthrough shows how to unsubscribe from the Hamsterra newsletter, turn off author emails from Email preferences without signing in, delete the data from a guest application and find what is kept when you delete your account.

  1. Open Account settings from the menu at the top.

    Then select Emails.

    0:11 Account settings →

  2. Select Emails.

    Choose whether to get the Hamsterra newsletter. Emails about your account, applications and campaigns are sent either way.

    0:25 Emails →

  3. Select Unsubscribe to stop the newsletter.

    Select Subscribe to get it again at any time.

    0:35 Emails →

  4. Open Email preferences in an email.

    No sign-in is needed, and the choices depend on the email. Invitation emails have Unsubscribe from these invitations, which opens its own confirmation page.

    0:41

  5. Check what the link can turn off.

    Turn off invitations from this author, leave their reader list, or turn off invitations from all authors.

    0:52

  6. Select Leave the reader list.

    If an author already emails you from their own service, unsubscribe there too.

    1:07

  7. Your follows and books stay.

    These choices don't change the authors you follow, and they never cancel a book you already received.

    1:20

  8. Applied as a guest? Open your personal link.

    Under Your data, select Delete my data.

    1:26 Your book is ready →

  9. Check what we delete and what we keep.

    Anything the author already exported or copied outside Hamsterra is not affected.

    1:36 Delete your data for this ARC? →

  10. Type DELETE and select Delete my data.

    Your guest link stops working at once. To delete a free book request, select Delete my data on its download page.

    1:56 Delete your data for this ARC? →

  11. To delete your account, open Account in Settings.

    Type DELETE and select Delete account. If prompted, select Confirm it's you and try again. This cannot be undone.

    2:06 Account →

  12. See what is kept in the privacy policy.

    To ask for a copy of your data, email privacy@hamsterra.com.

    2:29 Privacy →

  13. That's the end of the reader videos.

    Happy reading.

    2:40

Check you’re done

  • Your Newsletter card shows your chosen subscription status.
  • The author email options you turned off show Already turned off.
  • If you deleted a guest application’s data, you see Your data has been deleted.

Common questions

Does unsubscribing from the newsletter stop all Hamsterra emails?

No. Emails about your account, applications and campaigns are sent either way.

Will changing Email preferences remove my follows or books?

No. These preferences do not change the authors you follow or cancel a book you already received. Emails needed to deliver a copy you requested may still be sent.

Does deleting my guest data remove anything the author already exported?

No. Anything already exported or copied outside Hamsterra is not affected. Your guest link and download access for that ARC stop working.

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