Re-importing a contact that was deleted
Hi, What happens if I delete a contact and someone re-imports that contact using an Excel sheet or something? Is the contact re-inserted? I'm asking because I'm trying to clean up our list by doing the following: 1) Identifying everyone that has unsubscribed and is subscribed to no list 2) Running a campaign to ask people who have not unsubscribed, but are not on a list, to subscribe to a list or to unsubscribe completely 3) Identifying hard bounces and removing them As part of (2), I was preparing to delete the contacts that had unsubscribed when I noticed that someone in our organization tried to re-upload unsubscribed contacts (and others) using an Excel sheet. So I'm concerned that if I delete unsubscribed contacts (no matter by what method) they could be re-instated against their wishes. Is that the case? Thanks, L
Hello @HopeandCope ,
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If you only delete the contact, then yes uploading a file with that contact info will re-add them and update any new info if provided in the upload.Â
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If you're wanting to get rid of contacts, and not have them be able to be re-added without explicitly going through a sign up form or other method of overwriting their permissions, then I'd advise also unsubscribing them.
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You can upload lists of contacts to mass-unsubscribe at one time, if you have advanced permissions turned on for your account.
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You can unsubscribe bounces while deleting them, if doing so via an email's bounces report.Â
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Otherwise, you'll need to go through your files and remove the contacts that you don't want re-imported.
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