Delete your account

You can end a Frenbar account yourself, from the app or from a browser, and you do not need to install anything to ask. Deleting is immediate and permanent — there is no grace period and nothing to restore.

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Two doors, one account

The Frenbar app on your phone and Frenbar for the web are two ways into the same account. The button is in the same place in both, and does the same thing to the same data. Frenbar for the web has no Sign in with Apple, so an account made that way is deleted from the iPhone app.

Two things worth knowing before you press it:

• You may be asked to sign in again. Firebase, which holds the sign-in, refuses to remove an account behind an old session. If that happens your data is already gone — sign in again and press the button once more to finish removing the account itself.
• If it stops halfway, press it again. Deletion is not one action: it removes a few dozen records one at a time, so a dropped connection can leave it part-done. Running it again picks up where it stopped, and nothing is deleted twice.

If you cannot sign in

Write to privacy@frenbar.app from the address you signed in with, and say you want the account deleted. We remove the same things by hand.

We will not delete an account on a request we cannot tie to it — that would be a way to delete somebody else's. If you no longer have the address, tell us what you do have and we will say whether it is enough.

If you want a copy of what is stored, ask for it before you delete. Afterwards there is nothing left to copy.

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What deleting removes

Everything below goes, in this order — the copies other people can reach first, because those are the ones that matter most and are hardest to get to later.

1. What was published outside your account

• For every event you host: its public invitation page and every answer on it, plus its ask-to-come link and every request underneath — including the email addresses people left when asking to join — and its photo, if you put one up.
• Your public card at frenbar.app/c/…, if you made one. The link stops working.
• Your "add me" form link and the queue of details people filled in through it.
• The list of events you're going to, if you had switched it on for anyone, and every switch that let a connection see it.
• Every list of people you passed along that the other person has not finished with, and every list somebody passed along to you.

2. What made you findable

• Your published profile — the name, photo, birthday, handles, country and town your friends see.
• Your ranking row, if you had switched it on.
• The index entry that lets someone find you by your exact email address. Nobody can look you up afterwards.
• Every connection, both ways. A connection between two accounts is a single shared record, so removing yours ends it for the other person too.

3. Your own records

• Your events.
• Your address book — everyone you added and everything you wrote about them, including your private labels.
• Your labels, your settings and your account document.

4. The sign-in itself, last

The Firebase Authentication account that holds your email address and your account id. It goes last on purpose: once it is gone nothing can ever sign in as you again, so anything still waiting to be deleted would be stranded.

Frenbar keeps no separate copy of a deleted account, and there is no "deleted" flag on anything — the records are removed, not hidden.

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What deleting cannot reach

These are not ours to remove, and saying so is more useful than pretending otherwise.

• Your name on somebody else's guest list. An event you were invited to belongs to the host, under their account: it is their record of who was asked. Ask the host to take you off it.
• What another person wrote down about you. If someone added you to their own address book, that copy is theirs and only they can delete it.
• The people you passed along. Once the other person added one of them, that copy is in their address book and only they can delete it.
• The Google Play list. If you left an address to hear when Frenbar launches (the box's old wording) or when it is on Google Play, it is stored apart from any account and cannot be read back — not by anyone else, and not by you through the app. Write to privacy@frenbar.app to come off it.
• Anything you sent through “Tell us”. A bug report, an idea or a note is a message to a person, and nobody can delete it from inside the app — not you, and not whoever runs Frenbar. It carries only your account id, which stops pointing at anything once the account is gone, so what is left is the text with no name on it. Write to privacy@frenbar.app to have one removed.
• Invitations already sent. An email that has gone out is in somebody's inbox.
• Pictures you sent to other apps from an event. Once one has gone to another app it is wherever you sent it; Frenbar keeps no copy and no record of where it went.
• Android's own backup. Android may back apps up to your Google account; that lives in Android's settings, not in Frenbar. Uninstalling removes the app's copy on the phone.

Deleting less than everything

You do not have to end the account to remove a thing. From inside the app you can delete a single person, an event, an event's photo, your photo, any field on your profile, your public card, your form link, or your ranking row — each on its own. Deleting an event takes its public page and every answer on it with it; switching the ranking off deletes your row.

Questions

privacy@frenbar.app. What is stored, and who can see it, is set out in the privacy policy.