Data deletion request
How to ask for your account and the data attached to it to be deleted, what happens after the request is made, and how long each stage normally takes.
Overview
You can have your data deleted. This page says how, what happens without you asking, and the narrow set of things that are kept anyway.
Most visitors have nothing to delete — browsing this site anonymously leaves analytics events that were never tied to you in the first place.
Automatic deletion
Some data expires without any request:
- Analytics events — on each provider’s retention schedule, typically 14 months
- Error reports — 90 days
- Session recordings — 30 days
- Session storage — when you close the tab
Account deletion
If you signed in — the only reason to have done so is to send a message or vote on a feature request — deleting the account removes the profile, every message thread you started, your votes and comments, and any file you uploaded.
It is immediate and it cannot be undone. Content that other people replied to is removed along with it rather than left orphaned under a deleted name.
How to request deletion
- Email aoneahsan@gmail.com with the subject Data deletion request.
- Say which address or account the request covers.
- You get an acknowledgement within 48 hours.
- The deletion is completed within 30 days and confirmed in writing.
No reason is required and none will be asked for.
Third-party data
Data held by the analytics providers is deleted through their own processes, which are started on your behalf as part of the request above. Their timelines are theirs, not this site’s — Google, Microsoft and Amplitude each publish their own.
What is kept, and why
A small set survives a deletion request:
- Records a law requires to be kept
- Anything needed to establish or defend a legal claim
- Aggregated statistics that no longer identify anyone
- Backups, until they rotate out on their own schedule
One thing a deletion cannot reverse
If content from a free account has already been used to improve or train a feature — the reservation set out in the Privacy Policy and the Terms — the content is deleted with everything else, and the improvement it already contributed to is not undone. That improvement identifies nobody and cannot be traced back to you, but saying a deletion reverses it would not be true.
Objecting stops it going forward, at any time and without deleting anything. So does moving to a paid plan.
Getting a copy first
You can ask for an export before deleting. It arrives as JSON within 30 days and contains everything held under your account.
https://aoneahsan.com/data-deletion