You can now delete your Yacht Week account and the personal data we hold for you yourself, from your profile page. It takes effect immediately, and you do not need to give a reason or write to us.

Log in at theyachtweek.com and open your profile page. At the bottom of Edit profile is a panel called Danger zone, with a button marked Go off radar. That is the delete button.

You need to be logged in. Deletion is tied to the signed-in account — there is no way to delete an account by email address alone, or to delete someone else's. If you cannot log in, the last section below is for you.

Nothing is deleted at the click. First, a dialog shows you exactly what we currently hold on you — category by category, with a count for each — and what happens to every item when you confirm.

From the same dialog you can take a copy of your data before it goes, as a spreadsheet — see How do I find out exactly what data you hold about me?

Once you confirm, the deletion runs immediately. You are signed out, the page confirms it, and one final email confirms it is done — the subject line is "You're off radar 👋". That is the last email that address will receive from us.

There is no restore. If you delete your account and change your mind, we cannot bring it back — the data is gone, not archived somewhere. Booking with us again means starting from a blank slate.

A confirmed booking that has not finished yet keeps the button disabled until the last day of the trip, because we need your details to run it. The dialog tells you the date. A cancelled or unpaid booking does not block you — if yours is blocked and you think it should not be, write to hello@theyachtweek.com and we will look at it.

Deleted: your passport and ID details, date and place of birth, nationality, phone number and address, emergency contact, anything you wrote to us in booking notes and surveys, your web tracking history, and your login details. Your name and email address are replaced so that nothing left points back to you, and the account is closed.

Kept, because the law requires it: payment records tied to past bookings stay for the period tax law sets, then clear automatically, and guest lists already submitted to port authorities remain for as long as those rules require. The bookings themselves stay on our books as financial records, but with no name attached — we no longer know they were yours. Ratings or comments you left about a trip also remain, as records about the yacht and the week rather than about you; the email address stored alongside them is cleared.

Write to the notice address on your security notice, or to hello@theyachtweek.com, and tell us the name and email address you booked under. We will handle it as a deletion request in writing. That route is slower than the button — it runs on the statutory timescale rather than instantly — which is why we would recommend the button wherever you can use it.

Yacht Week and Ski Week are separate companies with separate records and separate sites, so deleting one account does not touch the other. The same button exists on theskiweek.com under Edit profile — use both if you want both gone. Ski Week's own answers are at help.theskiweek.com.

You can ask for a copy of the personal data we hold about you, and you can complain to your national data protection authority. We have reported this incident to the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY), under separate case references for each company — see Have you reported this to the data protection authorities?