Delete Account and Data

This page explains the permanent account-deletion path, what happens to team-owned data, and where to download exports before you continue.

Related product guides: What is a User?, What is a Team?, What is a Note?, and What is a Trackable?.

Data exports

Before you continue, download anything you want to keep from your personal export and any team exports you are allowed to access right now.

You can download your personal export first from the account data page. Team-wide exports remain separate and are available only to current team admins.

Team admins should download any team-wide exports they need before deleting the admin account.

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What is deleted

After deletion, your account sign-in, linked providers, synced personal notes, personal categories, and profile settings are removed from the server.

• Your LocationNotes account.
• Linked sign-in providers attached to that account.
• Synced personal notes and personal categories owned only by that account.

What is not automatically deleted

Team notes are not automatically deleted just because the contributor account is deleted. Once a note belongs to a team, it remains available to that team while the team exists, subject to team visibility and admin controls.

• If you owned team categories on a team that still has active admins or members, those team categories are reassigned so the team can keep working.
• Trackables are not deleted just because one account is deleted. The system removes the deleted user's personal trackable activity where possible, but shared activity from other people stays in place.
• If another person or team still has activity on a trackable, that trackable remains in the system even after one contributor deletes their account.
• If a trackable is team-owned, that team keeps the trackable while the team exists.
• If a team is deleted, team-owned trackables can fall back to the activating user so the item does not become orphaned.
• If a team admin removes a team note and the creator account still exists, the note becomes a personal note and keeps its prior public or private visibility.
• If the creator account has already been deleted, the note remains team-owned with no original creator.
• If a team is deleted, team memberships and team-only categories are deleted at that time.
• If a team is later deleted, notes with an existing creator convert back to personal notes and keep their prior public or private visibility.
• If a team is deleted after the original creator is gone, ownerless team notes are deleted at that time.

Trackable deletion details

Trackables can be shared across many notes, many users, and many teams over time, so account deletion is handled differently from a simple personal-only record. The goal is to remove the deleted user's removable personal activity without corrupting the remaining shared history for everyone else.

• If a deleted user was the only person with relevant removable personal activity on a personally controlled trackable, the service may be able to remove that personal activity completely.
• If the trackable still has location history, comments, or other activity from another user or a team, the trackable itself may remain in the system.
• If the deleted user activated a trackable to a team, that team remains the ownership scope while the team exists.
• If the controlling team is deleted, the product can fall back to the activating user when the ownership rules for that trackable allow it.
• Deleting your account does not give you the right to erase another person's shared trackable history, team trackable records, or team-admin moderation trail.

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Delete from the API

Authenticated API clients can call DELETE /api/account to delete the current account and synced data. Read the API docs for the delete endpoint for the request pattern and response example.

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