Claimed Accounts

When an Enterprise organization

, any organization member accounts that have email addresses with a matching domain (e.g. jdoe@mycompany.com) will also be claimed by the organization. Claimed member accounts are functionally owned by the organization, resulting in a few key changes to the way the account works.

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A user must have a matching domain and be a

confirmed member

of your Bitwarden organization to be considered a claimed account. Claiming a domain does not automatically invite any users and therefore will not in and of itself add to your subscription seat count.

Claimed member accounts can be outright deleted by organization administrators, instead of only being able to be removed from the organization. This includes deleting that user's individual vault, if one is available to them. If you are an organization member with a claimed account, it is especially important that you are not storing any personal credentials in that account.

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Claimed accounts can be deleted from the Admin Console's Members page using the  options menu:

Members of your organization that do not have claimed accounts can only be Removed from the organization instead.

If you are an organization member with a claimed account, you are not able to:

• Change your account email address to a domain that is not claimed by your organization. (You can still change the username portion of your email address.)

• Leave the organization.

• Purge your vault.

• Delete your account.