Delete Account & Data

Last updated 18 August 2026

You can delete your Brosky account whenever you want, from inside the app, without asking us and without explaining yourself. It is never made harder to find than signing up was, and there is no retention offer standing in the way.

1. Delete in the app

1. Open Brosky and go to Settings.
2. Scroll to Leaving and tap Delete Account.
3. Confirm: enter your password, or type DELETE if you signed in with Apple or Google and have no password.
4. Choose how it happens — the standard 30-day deletion, or Delete permanently now.

Either way you are signed out immediately and the account stops working at once, on every device you are signed in on.

If you signed in with Apple, we also revoke the Apple sign-in token as part of the deletion, so the connection between your Apple ID and Brosky is severed rather than merely forgotten.

2. Request deletion by email

If you cannot sign in — lost access to the email address, no longer have the device — write to privacy@brosky.app and ask us to delete the account.

Send it from the address on the account if you can. If you cannot, tell us enough for us to identify the account with confidence. We may need to ask a question or two to be certain we are deleting the right person's data, and we will not ask for more than the request requires. We respond within one month, usually much sooner.

3. What is deleted

When the account is permanently erased, all of this goes, for good:

• your account: email address, date of birth, password hash, and any Apple or Google sign-in link;
• your profile: first name, city, activities, availability, context line, verification status;
• your photos — including the stored image files themselves, not just the database rows pointing at them;
• every session you host, along with any seat another man holds in one;
• your claims on other men's seats, and the notes attached to them;
• your crew threads and every message in them;
• your Shouts, and any replies you wrote to someone else's;
• your Handovers, and any you were carrying for someone;
• your Rope answers, your live rope slot, and any unmatched rope intent;
• your standing orders, RSVPs, confirms, reactions and push token.

What it means for the men you were meeting. Deleting is not silent for them, so it is worth knowing before you do it:

• Your Rope ends that day, whichever option you choose. Your partner keeps his twelve weeks and is told the rope ended — not that you left.
• Every crew thread you were in is deleted for the other man too, his messages as well as yours. A thread belongs to two people and there is no copy on his side.
• Sessions you host disappear, along with the seats other men hold in them.
• A seat you held goes back on its host's board, so he can offer it to someone else.
• A need someone was carrying for you, or one you vouched into another man's hands, comes off his screen.

4. What is retained, and why

A small number of things survive, each for a specific reason:

• Safety reports. Reports made about you are kept for three years after closure, with the link to you removed. Otherwise anyone could erase a pattern of abuse by deleting an account and signing up again.
• Blocks. Kept, so a man who blocked you is never silently re-exposed to you.
• Records under a child-safety legal hold. Kept for one year or longer, and the hold overrides deletion entirely. See Child Safety Standards.
• The Rope pair record, where the other man is still here. It carries his own twelve weeks and your first name only; your daily answers, your slot and your intents are all deleted. This exists so that one man leaving does not wipe out another man's record of something he actually did.
• Aggregate usage analytics. Not linked back to you, kept for a year.
• Anything the law requires us to keep — including financial or tax records, where the reference to you is removed rather than the record itself.

Backups roll over on their own schedule, so a copy may persist in one for a short period after deletion. Backups are never used to bring a deleted account back.

5. Timeline

Standard deletion. The account is deactivated immediately: you are signed out, you disappear from every board and from every profile, and nobody can reach you. After 30 days a background process permanently erases everything in §3, including the stored photo files. That final step cannot be undone.

Delete permanently now. Everything in §3 is erased at once. No window, no way back.

Deletion is automated rather than a task somebody has to remember, and it cascades through every related record by construction — which is why it is complete rather than approximately complete.

6. Changing your mind

If you chose the standard 30-day deletion, you can get the account back by signing in again with the same method inside those 30 days. Everything not yet erased comes back with it.

Two things do not come back even within the window: any Rope you were in has already ended, and the threads and sessions that were removed the moment you deleted are gone for the other man too.

Once the 30 days have passed — or immediately, if you chose to delete permanently now — nothing can be restored. Not by you, not by support, not from a backup. Signing up again creates a genuinely new account with no history.

7. Right to erasure and your other privacy rights

Deleting your account exercises your right to erasure under the GDPR and the UK GDPR, and your right to delete under the CCPA. You also have the right to access your data, correct it, receive a copy in a portable format, restrict or object to certain processing, and withdraw consent.

To use any of those, email privacy@brosky.app. Full detail is in the Privacy Policy, whose retention table sets out how long each kind of data is kept.

You do not need to delete your account to exercise any other right, and nobody is treated differently for exercising one.

8. Contact

OVDEVEL LLC — privacy@brosky.app — Support.