Delete account — Democracy

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Other ways to delete

  • In the app: Settings → Delete account. This is the only way for an account with no email address (a sign-in provider that shared none): there is no inbox to confirm from.
  • By email to democracy@fineapps.gr, from the address of your account.

Erased from our servers, at once

  • Your account: email address, password, the links to your Apple, Google or Facebook sign-in, your handle (your public profile), language and age declaration.
  • Pending email links, the people you follow and who follow you, blocks in both directions, your consent records and your moderation notices.
  • Your name on your named questions. The questions stay, because other people voted on them, and show no author.

Kept for a legal reason

  • If a moderation decision concerned your account, its preservation copy is kept for six months (Regulation (EU) 2021/784, Art. 6) and then deleted.
  • Database backups expire on our hosting provider's schedule.

What stays on the public blockchain

Votes and voter registrations are recorded on Base, a public blockchain. No one can erase them — not us, not anyone. None of them is linked to your account, and we hold no record that links them, so deleting your account changes nothing there:

  • Questions: a fingerprint (hash) of each question's text and its number of answers. The text itself is on our servers, without an author once you delete your account.
  • Votes: anonymous. Each carries the voter's country and a one-way value made from a voting key that never left the phone.
  • Voter registrations: the issuing country of the document and a public key of the voting identity — never a name, a document number or a photo.

Deleting your account does not touch the voting key on your phone, because it was never part of your account. To erase it too, withdraw the identity consent in the app (Settings → Consent): the key is erased from the phone and its backup, and the registration on the blockchain can never be used again. See the privacy policy, sections 4, 8 and 9.