Delete your account
You can delete your tally.place account and everything attached to it from inside the app, in about three taps. It is not a request that joins a queue — it happens while you wait.
Last updated 30 August 2026
How to delete your account
- Open tally.place on your phone.
- Go to Settings.
- Tap Delete account, and confirm.
Every pentagon you hold is retracted first, one batch at a time, so the public counts you contributed to go down as they are given up. Then the account itself is removed. If you have covered a great deal this takes a few rounds; the app repeats the request itself until it is finished, and tells you when it is.
When that has worked, the app empties the record on your phone and signs you out. You are left with the app as it was the day you installed it. If it does not finish — no signal, say — the record on your phone is left exactly as it was, and the app tells you so rather than leaving you to guess.
Deleting some of your data, without deleting your account
You do not have to choose all or nothing. In Settings → Private places, mark an area as private — your home, a friend's, a workplace — and every pentagon you have recorded inside it is withdrawn from the public record. The counts you contributed to go down. Nothing there is ever recorded again while the place exists.
The app tells you how many pentagons an area would withdraw before it withdraws them, because it cannot be undone. The area itself is kept with your account as well as on your phone, so it is still there when you change device, and it goes when your account goes.
That is the reason to reach for a private place rather than deletion if what you want is for one area to stop counting: marking it private withdraws what you recorded there and keeps the rest.
You can also stop contributing to the aggregate statistics at any time, from Settings, with one tap. Withdrawing is as easy as agreeing was.
What is deleted
Deleting your account removes all of the following, immediately and permanently:
| What | Detail |
|---|---|
| Your pentagon records | Every pentagon you have visited, and how many times. Each one is retracted, which decrements the public count it contributed to. |
| Your account | Your handle, and the identifier your sign-in provider gave us. Nothing remains that another sign-in could match you back to. |
| Your scores and statistics | Totals, rarity scores, streaks and milestones. |
| Your first-visit credits | Where you were the first person recorded on a pentagon, that credit is given up rather than left pointing at a deleted account. |
| Your contribution to aggregate statistics | The record that you were one of the people counted. See what is kept, below. |
| Any reports you filed | Reports that somebody lives on a pentagon and its counts should not be published. |
| Your invite codes and referrals | Both directions — codes you created, and the link between you and whoever invited you. |
| Your private places | Each area you marked private: a point, a distance around it, and the name you gave it if you gave it one. |
| Your device keys | The per-device keys used to check that a sync came from a real installation. |
| The record on your phone | Not ours, but it goes at the same time: every pentagon the app had counted, your private places, your milestones, and anything recorded but not yet sent. The app signs out and starts again empty. |
What is kept, and why
| What | How long, and why |
|---|---|
| Pentagon counts | Indefinitely, minus your contribution. The counts are the game: once your visits have been subtracted, what remains is a number about ground, with no record connecting it to any person. |
| Aggregate statistics already published | Indefinitely. Figures released before you deleted your account cannot be recalled. They carry no identifier of any kind, and they are coarsened before release — which is why permission for them is asked for separately, and can be withdrawn separately, before they are produced. |
| Nothing else | There is no backup copy held aside, no soft-delete flag, and no grace period during which the account could be restored. Deletion is a delete. |
Two things we never had to begin with
Your movements. Where your phone has been is converted to pentagon identifiers on the device and the positions discarded, so there is no trail of coordinates here to delete — there never was one. The one exception is an area you set as private yourself, which is listed above and is deleted with the rest.
Your email address. If you signed in with an email link, the address was used to send that one message and never written down. What is stored is a hash of it, which is deleted with the rest of your account.
Other retention periods
These apply whether or not you delete anything, and are listed in full inthe privacy notice §7:
- A sign-in link lasts fifteen minutes, or until you use it, whichever comes first. Then it is deleted.
- The record of your contribution to statistics is deleted automatically after730 days, or immediately if you delete your account.
- Your pentagon records are kept for as long as your account exists, and no longer.
If you cannot open the app
Deletion is built into the app because a right you have to ask for is a right with a queue in front of it. But if you have lost the device, or removed the app before deleting the account, write to privacy@tally.place and say which handle it is. You will not be asked for anything we do not already hold.
You can also read the full privacy notice, which covers what is collected, what is published, and what is never collected at all.