How do I stop receiving emails from my ward? If this is impossible, I’d like to delete my information from the servers.
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Stop receiving emails OR delete account
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Re: Stop receiving emails OR delete account
There are a few things you can do yourself:
If it's private/personal email you're receiving from other ward members, deleting your email address(es) from the Church systems won't delete the address(es) your ward's members might have in their personal contacts lists and such.
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- Go to the Account Settings page for your Church Account, then Email Subscriptions. Unsubscribe from everything (or more specific if you wish).
Go to the Contact settings, select 'Private - Leaders Only' or delete your email address.
If it's private/personal email you're receiving from other ward members, deleting your email address(es) from the Church systems won't delete the address(es) your ward's members might have in their personal contacts lists and such.
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Re: Stop receiving emails OR delete account
You can change the visibility setting for your household email address and/or personal email address to Private in the Ward Directory and Map.
This is done by logging onto ChurchofJesusChrist.org. After you are logged on select My Account and Ward and click Ward Directory and Map from the middle column (My Ward) of applications. Scroll down to your household name and select/click it. If you want to edit your household contact privacy settings then click the edit link (pencil icon) and then click Privacy from the three menu items just below your household name. Scroll down to Email and select Private from the drop-down list of settings. The same can be done for you personal contact privacy settings by clicking on your name from within the household. Even if you are the only member of your household you will need to select your name when viewing the household to pull up your personal contact information to edit it.
Note that when Private is selected your email address will still be visible to ward leaders. If you do not want them to contact you except under special circumstances you will need to contact your bishop and let him know of your contact desires from ward leaders.
This is done by logging onto ChurchofJesusChrist.org. After you are logged on select My Account and Ward and click Ward Directory and Map from the middle column (My Ward) of applications. Scroll down to your household name and select/click it. If you want to edit your household contact privacy settings then click the edit link (pencil icon) and then click Privacy from the three menu items just below your household name. Scroll down to Email and select Private from the drop-down list of settings. The same can be done for you personal contact privacy settings by clicking on your name from within the household. Even if you are the only member of your household you will need to select your name when viewing the household to pull up your personal contact information to edit it.
Note that when Private is selected your email address will still be visible to ward leaders. If you do not want them to contact you except under special circumstances you will need to contact your bishop and let him know of your contact desires from ward leaders.
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Have you tried finding your answer on the ChurchofJesusChrist.org Help Center or Tech Wiki?
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Re: Stop receiving emails OR delete account
I don’t want to receive any emails whatsoever from anyone in the church. I had already contacted the clerk once and he said I should update my preferences on this site. I’ve tried a plethora of settings including “private” and unsubscribing from all emails, however I’m STILL receiving multiple emails a day from a church I don’t want to be a part of.
It SHOULD NOT be this difficult to stop receiving emails, and I’d go so far as to say that the tick box that says “make my email address available to ward leaders” is highly deceptive because it insinuates access from a directory, not signing up to receive anything on a regular basis.
It SHOULD NOT be this difficult to stop receiving emails, and I’d go so far as to say that the tick box that says “make my email address available to ward leaders” is highly deceptive because it insinuates access from a directory, not signing up to receive anything on a regular basis.
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I suggest you contact the bishop and discuss the matter with him. As you may have discovered, ghosting the church is not an effective way of leaving it.wobina@att.net wrote:a church I don’t want to be a part of
I see emails from time to time. But to receive that many, I can only assume it's local leaders. You can try and remove your email from the account completely, however, they may have created a private list and are working from that. That's something else you can discuss with the bishop.wobina@att.net wrote:however I’m STILL receiving multiple emails a day
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Re: Stop receiving emails OR delete account
I didn’t ghost the church. I’ve been inactive for 20+ years. I was exploring this site and registered to look at wards in my area. Unfortunately, in the process of registering I’ve started getting these annoying and unwanted emails. Thereby forcing me to contact people I don’t even know??? As stated, I already emailed the clerk about it and they said they are merely using the list generated by this website.
I’ll contact the bishop this time, but this is seriously something that shouldn’t be so complicated. If people don’t want these emails they shouldn’t be forced to jump through hoops to stop receiving them... An “unsubscribe” button would suffice...
I’ll contact the bishop this time, but this is seriously something that shouldn’t be so complicated. If people don’t want these emails they shouldn’t be forced to jump through hoops to stop receiving them... An “unsubscribe” button would suffice...
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Re: Stop receiving emails OR delete account
If the email messages you were/are receiving are calendar notifications, and if your email viewer does HTML, there are likely two links at the bottom of the message:wobina@att.net wrote:... An “unsubscribe” button would suffice...
- To change your email, visit your LDS Account contact Settings page: https://account.ChurchofJesusChrist.org ... nformation
To manage your calendar reminders, visit your Choose Calendars page: https://www.ChurchofJesusChrist.org/calendar/choose
A click on Email Subscriptions produces a page that allows selection of a number of types of messages. There is also an 'Unsubscribe From All' box.
The Choose Calendars page likely has a fairly long list of calendars, and for each calendar you can enable or disable reminders.
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Re: Stop receiving emails OR delete account
i already have an existing account but not linked with my mrn