Private messages -are they?

Hello! Just to clarify again, if a user deletes their account or messages, then all messages in the chain are removed.
Likewise, if a poster de-registers or asks us to delete all her data, PMs between herself and other posters are deleted from our servers too. Hope that helps.

Hi Kitty, we can access PMs, but we don't - unless they're reported to us as spam, or if there's a safeguarding issue. We'd have no reason at all to randomly look at genuine users' PMs. We wouldn't want to do that and nor would we have the time, to be honest.
It is also worth knowing that lots of users delete their PMs once they've been read as a matter of course and that will also delete it from your inbox, so having deleted messages these days is pretty normal and doesn't mean there's anything dodgy going on at all. It's likely that the person who sent it to you deleted it. And of course you can do that with all your messages, too, if you don't want them hanging around.

Hi Kitty, sorry we missed this question earlier. I don't think there is a limit but I'll do some investigating and get back to you if that's not the case.