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Deleting Your Account

BLINK supports the right to erasure (GDPR Article 17) with a 30-day grace window. When you request deletion, the account is marked for erasure and fully wiped 30 days later. Until then, you can cancel and keep the account.

How to request deletion

  1. Open Account > Privacy > Delete Account.
  2. Read the warning text.
  3. Tap Schedule deletion.
  4. The deletion timer starts immediately.

After this, every screen in the app shows a persistent crimson banner with the scheduled deletion date and a Cancel Deletion button.

During the 30-day grace window

  • The account is still active.
  • You can still session, browse the gallery, use AI Studio, and so on.
  • You can cancel deletion at any time.
  • Signing in is enough to see the banner; it does not auto-cancel.

Cancelling deletion

  • Tap Cancel Deletion in the banner (or in Account > Privacy).
  • The pending deletion timestamp is cleared.
  • The account returns to normal. No data lost.

When 30 days pass

A scheduled cleanup runs once every 24 hours and processes accounts whose deletion timestamp is older than 30 days. For each one:

  1. The Firebase Auth account is deleted - you can no longer sign in with that email.
  2. The image storage folder for the account is removed recursively.
  3. The database row is deleted, which cascades to:
  4. Sessions
  5. Chat messages
  6. Domina(s) (personal)
  7. Inventory entries
  8. Fetishes and hard limits (ciphertext)
  9. AI Studio images
  10. Reports and suggestions
  11. Device pairings
  12. Charm transactions ledger
  13. Encrypted blob

After this point the account is gone. There is no recovery. The username is freed and can theoretically be claimed by a new user later.

What is not deleted

  • Stripe keeps billing records for accounting and tax purposes. These cannot be deleted by BLINK on demand because legal retention applies.
  • Aggregated, anonymised analytics counters that are no longer tied to your account persist.
  • Public-gallery images you unpublished before deletion are removed. Images you left published get removed as part of the cleanup.

Before you delete

If you might want anything later, export first:

  • Run Data Export. Save the JSON.
  • Download any sessions you want to keep (PDF if Premium Plus, share page bookmark otherwise).
  • Save any AI Studio images you want to keep.

Deletion vs cancellation vs sign-out

Action Effect
Sign out Clears the cached key on this device. Account untouched.
Cancel subscription Drops to Free at the end of the period. Account untouched.
Schedule deletion Account active for 30 days, then permanently wiped.
Reset encrypted data Wipes ciphertext only. Account and unencrypted side stay.

Pick the smallest action that achieves what you want. Deletion is the nuclear option and is intentionally slow.