Delete your account
Deleting is deletion, not deactivation. Nothing is kept behind a flag waiting for you to change your mind, and you do not have to ask us twice.
Reading needs no account at all
The magazine, the events calendar and the circles are all readable without signing in. An account only adds liking a piece, replying under one, and posting in the circles. If you would rather not have one, you can simply read.
In the Creations Magazine app
On iPhone, iPad or Android:
- Open Creations Magazine and go to Your account, the person icon at the top right of the front page.
- Scroll to the foot of that screen and tap Delete my account.
- Tap it a second time to confirm. That is deliberate, so a single mis-tap cannot erase anything.
The account and everything attached to it goes immediately. You are signed out on every device at the same moment.
Or write to us
If you cannot reach the app, email [email protected] from the address on the account and ask us to delete it. We will do it and write back to say it is done.
What is deleted
Everything that is yours:
- Your member record, including your name, email address and cell number.
- Every comment you have left under an article.
- Every post you have made in the circles.
- Every article you have liked or kept.
- Any reports you have filed and anyone you have blocked.
- Your sign-in sessions, so every device is signed out, and any sign-in code still outstanding.
- The link between your account and any phone registered for new-article alerts, so the magazine can no longer reach your device.
What is not
The magazine's own articles, events and circle topics stay, because they are ours rather than yours. Our anonymous count of how many people read a given article stays too; it records the page and never who you are, so there is nothing in it to attach back to you.
How long it takes
It is immediate. There is no waiting period, no grace period, and no archived copy kept for later. Ordinary encrypted backups of the database may hold a copy for a short time before they age out, and those are never read except to recover from a failure.