Delete your data

1. Delete your account in the app

1. Open Settlecircle and go to the Profile tab.
2. Under Your data, tap Delete account.
3. Confirm with Delete account. Your phone needs to be online.

The app deletes your account on our servers, then erases everything on that phone and starts fresh. If you're signed in on other phones, they're signed out the next time they connect.

2. What's deleted and what's kept

Deleted straight away:

• your account and your email address;
• your friend code, friendships and invites;
• your categories;
• circles, expenses and payments that nobody else with an account is part of;
• people you added who don't appear in anything that's kept.

Kept, without your name: circles, expenses and payments shared with another Settlecircle account. Removing them would change your friends' balances, so they stay, and everywhere your name appeared it's replaced with "Deleted user".

Deleted data may remain in our database provider's short-term disaster-recovery backups until those are overwritten on a rolling basis. It isn't used or restored from there except to recover from a system failure.

3. Ask us to delete it

If you can't use the app (for example you've lost your phone), email support@settlecircle.app with the subject "Delete my account", from the email address you sign in with. We'll delete your account and data as described above and confirm by email, normally within 30 days. We may ask you to confirm that the account is yours before we delete it.

4. Guests: erase this phone

If you use Settlecircle without signing in, your expenses are only on that phone.

• Erase everything: Profile → Erase all data, then confirm.
• Remove the guest account too: Profile → Delete account. Unused guest accounts are also deleted automatically after 90 days.
• Delete the app: on iPhone, touch and hold the icon, tap Remove App, then Delete App. On Android, touch and hold the icon, tap App info, then Uninstall.

5. Delete single items

Deleting something removes it from your account and, the next time they sync, from the phones of everyone it was shared with.

• An expense or payment: tap it in a circle or in Activity, then delete it.
• A category you created: Profile → Categories → tap it → Delete category.
• A circle: open it, tap the ••• menu and choose Delete circle. This also deletes the circle's expenses and payments for everyone in it.
• A friend: open their page, tap the ••• menu and choose Remove friend.

6. Device backups

If your phone backs up to iCloud or Google, a copy of Settlecircle's data on that phone may be included. Apple and Google manage those backups, not us.

• iPhone: Settings → [your name] → iCloud → Manage Account Storage → Backups.
• Android: Settings → Google → Backup (names vary by phone), and in your Google account.

7. Emails you sent us

If you contacted us, we may still have your email and message. To have them deleted, email support@settlecircle.app from the same address, with the subject "Delete my emails". We'll confirm once they're deleted, normally within 30 days.

Questions? Contact us or read the privacy policy.