Remove my profile image

Anonymous

#264835

When signing up to the account the system imported a profile image, I actually don’t know where from, without my permission, and I cannot change/remove it.

Trevor

#264860

The profile image is set using the email address on your account, from the Gravatar site server. If you have a profile with any of the WordPress sites you will have also been signed up to Gravatar, and so any profile image you set there (in any of those sites) will be used by ANY site on which you are a registered user with that same email address. At the least those sites would be:

gravatar.com
wordpress.org
wordpress.com
woocommerce.com
jetpack.com

and probably many others.

If you use the browser web developer inspector you will see that the image is supplied from Gravatar.

But, we do not store the image on our server. Our forum software simply asks the gravatar site if they have a public image for the email address you used, and then calls that image if available. You will have given permission for that image to be used publicly by Gravatar. To remove it, log in there and remove it. Because of caches, it may take a few hours or so for it to be removed, but be aware that, once you make an image public in this way, it will remain on Google for a very long time.

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