How to delete your Redbubble account

ShoppingOwned by Articore Group LimitedSelf-service onlineDifficulty: EasyTime: About 5 minutes to cancel; accrued earnings are paid out during the following monthly payment period (payments start at the beginning of the month and should land by the 15th)Verified July 2026

Redbubble is a global print-on-demand marketplace operated by Redbubble Inc. (San Francisco) and ASX-listed Articore Group Limited (Melbourne), where independent artists upload designs that are printed onto t-shirts, stickers, phone cases, wall art and homeware and shipped worldwide. Its systems hold your username, shop name, email address, password and profile, every design file you have ever uploaded, your full order and sales history, favourites, and your private BubbleMail messages with other users. For buyers it also stores shipping addresses, phone numbers and bank or payment information; for selling artists in the US and Canada its privacy policy says it may additionally collect your identification document, legal name, legal business name, address, bank information, tax ID, date of birth, business registration number, VAT number, country of tax residency and tax status. Redbubble also logs your IP address, device, browser and your movements and executed actions on the marketplace.

Delete your Redbubble account, step by step

  1. 1Sign in to redbubble.com on a desktop browser
  2. 2Before you do anything else, decide whether you want to keep your shop name. Redbubble states that "any username or shop name associated with an account when closed can't be changed, removed, or used again" — so if you want to reuse the shop name on a future account, change it now in Account Settings. Usernames can't be changed or re-used at any time
  3. 3If you are a selling artist, open your "Payment History" page and confirm your payment details are valid and up to date — accrued earnings are paid out during the following monthly payment period, less any applicable account fee, and only if you meet the Artist Payment Threshold ($10 / £10 / €10 since 1 July 2026)
  4. 4Download or back up any original design files you still need — closing the account removes your profile and all of your works from the marketplace
  5. 5Click your profile avatar in the top right of the Redbubble home page and open your Account Settings (direct URL: https://www.redbubble.com/account/settings)
  6. 6Open the "Cancel Account" page in Account Settings — the direct link, as given in Redbubble's own help article, is https://www.redbubble.com/account/settings/cancel
  7. 7Confirm the cancellation when prompted. Redbubble warns that "deleting an account is permanent, and canceled accounts cannot be restored"
  8. 8Optional but recommended: email [email protected] to also have your personal information removed from Redbubble's e-marketing lists and survey databases. Redbubble publishes this address on its CCPA "Do not sell my personal information" page (written for California residents, though the address is a working inbox) with three set options — quote option 3: "I have a Redbubble account - please delete my account and also delete my data from e-marketing lists and survey databases"
  9. 9Optional: if you are in the EU/UK, send a separate erasure request under GDPR by email — there is no GDPR web form. Write to Redbubble's Article 27 representatives (Redbubble Europe GmbH in Berlin / Redbubble UK Limited in London) at [email protected], or to its external Data Protection Officer, DP DOCK DPO Services GmbH, at [email protected]
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What actually happens when you delete

Gets removed

  • Your public profile and every work/design you uploaded are removed from the marketplace and your shop goes offline
  • Account credentials, passwords, profile information and settings, deleted — in the privacy policy's words — "using secure deletion methods that render the data unrecoverable"
  • Marketing and preference data, and (on request to [email protected]) your entries in Redbubble's e-marketing lists and survey databases
  • Personal communications — the privacy policy's Section 7 term, which covers your BubbleMail messages with other users — and personally identifiable information held in your account record
  • Your favourites, follows, shop configuration and marketing preferences

Stays behind

  • Every comment you posted on other artists' works stays publicly visible — Redbubble explicitly says "your profile and all your works will be removed, but any comments will remain"
  • Your username and shop name are permanently locked. Redbubble does not recycle them once an account has been deleted, so nobody (including you) can register them again
  • Payment information required by applicable regulations and data retained for tax obligations — bank details, tax ID, remittance and earnings records
  • Content moderation history and data related to alleged intellectual property infringement
  • Fraud-prevention data and payment dispute records
  • Buyers' order and invoice records for products you sold, the physical products already printed and shipped, and third-party search-engine caches, Pinterest pins and web archives of your shop pages

Before you delete

The big irreversible trap is naming: usernames can never be changed or re-used, and any username or shop name attached to an account when it closes is locked forever — change your shop name BEFORE cancelling if you ever want it back. The second trap is money: closing the account triggers payout of accrued earnings in the following monthly payment period, less any applicable account fee, but only if you meet the $10/£10/€10 threshold and have valid payment details. Redbubble charges two fee types on Standard and Premium accounts — a platform fee and an excess markup fee on markups above 20% — capped together at $150/€150/£150 per payment period, with Pro accounts exempt. A suspended account's balance is frozen instead, and an account deleted by Redbubble for policy violations forfeits its funds to indemnity obligations. Your comments on other artists' works survive deletion. There is no self-service data export, no deactivate/pause option, and no GDPR web portal — erasure and portability requests go by email. Privacy policy Section 7 states that beyond account deletion Redbubble retains data related to alleged intellectual property infringement, fraud prevention, content moderation history, payment disputes, tax obligations and payment information required by applicable regulations, for as long as legally required.

Download your data from Redbubble first

Most platforms only honor a data-export request while the account is still active. Do this before you delete.

  1. 1Redbubble provides no self-service data download. Under Section 10(b) of its Privacy Policy you may have a right to receive the personal data you provided in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format; the policy directs you to the contacts in its Section 1, so request it by emailing [email protected] (the Article 27 representatives, Redbubble Europe GmbH and Redbubble UK Limited) or the Data Protection Officer, DP DOCK DPO Services GmbH, at [email protected]. US state residents should email the Redbubble Privacy Team at [email protected]. There is no dedicated privacy request form — https://help.redbubble.com/hc/en-us/requests/new is the general support form only. Before closing, manually save your original design files, your Payment History / Earnings Details records and any tax documents you may need.

Want to take a break instead? Deactivate

Deactivation hides your profile without permanently destroying it. Logging back in restores everything.

  1. 1Redbubble does not document a deactivate, pause or temporary-hibernate option for accounts — the only documented option is permanent cancellation on the "Cancel Account" page in Account Settings.

If deletion fails — or you live in the EU, UK, or California

You have a legal right to request erasure of your personal data under GDPR (EU/UK) and CCPA (California). Use these official channels if the self-service flow doesn't work.

Redbubble deletion FAQs

Can I get my Redbubble account back after deleting it?+

No. Redbubble's help article is unambiguous: "Deleting an account is permanent, and canceled accounts cannot be restored." There is no grace period, no reactivation window and no way for support to undo it. If you only want a different username, note that usernames can't be changed on Redbubble at all — Redbubble's own advice is to close the account and create a new one with the desired username, which means starting from zero with a different email address.

What happens to my unpaid Redbubble earnings when I close my account?+

If you have accrued earnings they are paid out, less any applicable account fee, during the following monthly payment period. Payments start at the beginning of each month and should land in your financial account by the 15th, provided your balance meets the Artist Payment Threshold — lowered from $20/£20/€20 to $10/£10/€10 on 1 July 2026 — and you have valid payment details on file. So close the account only after checking your Payment History page and confirming your PayPal or bank details are correct; if your PayPal account is not verified you'll have to claim the payment manually.

Can I reuse my Redbubble username or shop name on a new account?+

Your username, never — usernames can't be changed on Redbubble and can't be re-used at any time. Your shop name, only if you act first: change your Shop Name in Account Settings BEFORE you cancel, which frees the old name for you to use again after the existing account is closed. Once the account is closed, any username or shop name attached to it can't be changed, removed, or used again.

Why can't I sign up again with the same email address?+

Redbubble states plainly that "email addresses can only be associated with one account", and closing an account does not release the address. If you plan to open a new Redbubble account you'll need a different email address (an alias such as [email protected] generally works).

Redbubble suspended my account and my balance is frozen — can I close it and get paid?+

No. Redbubble says any suspended account with a balance will be frozen in accordance with the Redbubble User Agreement. And if the account was deleted by Redbubble for policy violations — IP infringement, re-uploading removed content, harassment, prohibited content — it cannot be reinstated, any funds in the account are used to satisfy your indemnity obligations under the User Agreement, and any other accounts found to be owned or operated by you will also be deleted.

How do I get Redbubble to delete my data if I never had an account, or if I want to keep the account but get off their lists?+

Email [email protected] and state which of the three options Redbubble publishes on its "Do not sell my personal information" page you want: (1) no Redbubble account — delete my personal information from e-marketing lists and survey databases; (2) keep my account but delete my personal information from those lists; (3) delete my account and also delete my data from those lists. That page is written for California/CCPA users, so residents elsewhere may get a different answer. Questions about CCPA compliance go to [email protected]; to exercise US state privacy rights (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, Virginia, Utah) email the Redbubble Privacy Team at [email protected]. Note that unsubscribing from marketing email does not stop transactional email about orders you've placed.

How is a deceased artist's Redbubble account closed?+

Redbubble handles this manually. Submit the request through the ticket form its help article links for this purpose, https://help.redbubble.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=16465, providing the account username, the full name, email address and physical address on the account, and a scanned death certificate or death notice. Redbubble will then close the account and process any final payments. Documents can also be posted to Redbubble Inc, 170 Grant Avenue, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA; Redbubble Europe GmbH, c/o Denizen Eiswerk, Köpenicker Straße 40-41, 10179 Berlin, Germany; or Articore Group Limited, Level 12, 697 Collins St., Docklands, Victoria 3008, Australia.

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