Account & Data Deletion

1. Delete Your Account From the App

If you are signed in, you can delete your own account without asking us. The steps are the same in the mobile app and on the website:

1. Sign in to Basic Bookish.
2. Open your profile and choose Edit profile. On the website this is the page at /profile/edit.
3. Open the Security tab.
4. Scroll to Danger zone and choose Delete my account.
5. Read the confirmation dialog and choose Delete account.

That single confirmation is the whole process. There is no typed confirmation, no password re-entry, no confirmation email and no waiting period, so treat the button as final.

2. Request Deletion Without the App

If you have uninstalled the app, cannot sign in, or would rather we did it, email us and we will delete the account for you:

Basic Bookish LLC - hello@basicbookish.com

Write from the email address on the account, use the subject "Account deletion request", and tell us the email address or username you want removed. We may ask you to confirm that the account is yours before we act, because a deletion cannot be undone once it runs.

You can also use the contact form at /contact, which works without an account. One thing to know before you do: that form saves your name, email address and message in our support records, and those records are among the things account deletion does not remove. Email is the tidier route.

3. Delete Some of Your Data Without Deleting Your Account

You do not have to close your account to take things out of it. Most of what you create in Basic Bookish you can delete yourself, and it goes the moment you confirm.

Delete it yourself, in the app or on the website:

• Fan art you uploaded - open the piece and delete it. The image file goes with the entry.
• Discussions you started - open the thread and delete it.
• Comments you wrote - open the comment and delete it.
• Your shelves and reading history - use "Remove from all lists" on a series, or set any book's reading status back to none.
• Filters you saved - delete them from your saved filters.
• Your profile details - clear any field in Profile settings, including your bio, location, birth date, gender, avatar and social links, then save.

For anything else, ask us and we will remove it. Email hello@basicbookish.com from the address on your account and name what you want taken down. Use this for a review or rating, a message you sent us, an order placed without signing in, or anything you cannot reach from the app. We read every request, remove what you asked for, and reply to tell you what we did. You do not have to give a reason, and your account stays open.

If you want the whole account gone instead, sections 1 and 2 are the route, and sections 5 and 6 say exactly what that removes and what it leaves behind.

4. What Happens When You Confirm

Deletion is immediate, permanent and irreversible. There is no soft delete, no grace period, no recycle bin and no scheduled job that finishes the work later. The moment you confirm, your sign-in account is destroyed and everything listed in section 5 goes with it. We cannot restore an account afterwards, and neither can you. If you want your data, save it before you delete.

One caveat we would rather state than leave you to discover: your uploaded images and videos are removed from file storage in the moment before the account itself is destroyed. If that step fails, for example during a storage outage, the account is still deleted and a small number of files can outlive it. Tell us at hello@basicbookish.com if you find one and we will remove it.

"Immediate and irreversible" is not the same as "complete". Section 6 lists what stays, and it is worth reading before you decide.

5. What We Delete

Deleting your account permanently removes:

• Your sign-in account - your email address, your password credentials, every active session, and any Google account you linked to sign in with.
• Your profile - display name, username, bio, about me, favourite books text, avatar and cover images, birth date, gender, location, website and social links, your role, and your account preferences.
• Your reading activity - reading status for every book, your reading log, your reading challenge, your custom stacks including the names you gave them, and your saved filters.
• Your follows and taste settings - the readers and series you follow, the readers who follow you, your favourite genres and tropes, and your blocked-user list.
• Likes you gave - the likes you cast on other readers' book and series reviews. The like totals shown on those reviews are not recalculated afterwards.
• Your fan art and video reviews - the entries themselves and the image and video files behind them.
• Entries you made in events and suggestions - your event attendance, the events you submitted, and the books you suggested.
• Your notification inbox - every notification you had received, read or unread.
• Your push notification registrations - our record of the devices signed up to receive push notifications.
• Your newsletter delivery records - our log of which digest emails were sent to you.
• Shop orders that were linked to your account - deleted on purpose, so that somebody who later registers your email address cannot inherit your purchase history.
• Your uploaded files - avatar images, fan art images and review videos held in our file storage.

6. What We Keep, and Why

Some records survive the deletion. In each case the reason is one of two: removing the record would damage something that belongs to another reader, or the record was never held under your account in the first place.

• Reviews and ratings you wrote - the review stays published with your name removed and the author shown as "Deleted user". The rating, title, text and date are kept so the book keeps its rating and the reader who replied to you is not left answering nobody. The text is not edited, so anything in it that identifies you stays public.
• Comments you left, and discussion threads you started - kept for the same reason and in the same way, with your name removed. Replies from other readers stay attached to them.
• Notifications other readers already received about you - your account is unlinked from them, but each of those messages was written at the time it was sent, with your name already inside the text. Unlinking the account does not rewrite the message, so your name can still appear in somebody else's notification list.
• The sign-in security log - our authentication provider records sign-in and account events, and those entries hold the email address that was used. The log is kept as a security record and is not cleared by account deletion.
• Your newsletter subscription - the newsletter list is held by email address and has no link to your account, so deleting the account does not unsubscribe you. See section 8.
• Messages you sent us - a contact or support message keeps the name, email address and text you sent, so that we still have the correspondence.
• Shop orders placed without signing in - an order placed as a guest is tied to the email address used at checkout rather than to an account, so account deletion does not reach it. It stays visible to whoever signs in to Basic Bookish with that email address later.
• Staff invitations - if you were invited to a staff role, the invitation record keeps the email address it was sent to.
• Moderation and administration records - a report about an account, and the log of administrative actions, keep the account identifier and the text written at the time, so that a moderation decision stays auditable.
• Editorial content created by a staff account - if your account was a staff account, the books, series, guides, events, ads and other catalogue entries it created stay published. Only the link naming you as their author is removed.

7. How Long We Keep It

There is no additional retention period. We have not set an expiry on anything in section 6, and nothing in Basic Bookish removes those records on a schedule. They are kept for as long as the Site runs, unless someone removes them by hand.

If you want a specific retained record taken down - a review whose wording identifies you, a guest order, a message you sent us - email hello@basicbookish.com and name the record. We read every such request and will tell you what we did.

8. The Newsletter Is Separate

Our newsletter list is keyed to your email address and holds no link to your account, so deleting the account leaves the subscription running. Deleting the account also takes away the setting you would use to stop it, because that control needs you to be signed in.

Unsubscribe before you delete the account if you no longer want the emails. If you have already deleted it, email hello@basicbookish.com and we will remove the address from the list.

9. Services Outside Basic Bookish

Account deletion runs entirely within Basic Bookish. It sends no deletion request to any outside company, so copies held elsewhere are not affected by it:

• Kit, which delivers our newsletter, keeps your subscriber record until the address is removed from the list.
• Our shop provider keeps its own record of any purchase you made, which is the shop's record of the sale rather than part of your Basic Bookish account.
• Our email provider keeps a delivery history of the messages already sent to you.
• Our error monitoring service keeps technical error reports. We do not tag those reports with your account.

Each of these companies handles removal requests under its own privacy policy. We are happy to point you at the right one, or to make the request on your behalf where we can.

10. Contact Us

For a deletion request, a question about this page, or a request to remove something we kept:

Basic Bookish LLC - hello@basicbookish.com

Our Privacy Policy explains what we collect and why.