account · deletion

Delete your account.

Remove your Tubaar account and data at any time. Here's exactly what happens, what we keep, and how long it takes.

Just need a break?

Pause instead

Hide your profile and videos from everyone. Come back whenever — everything's still there.

  • Profile hidden from Pulse and search
  • Videos, Echoes & messages preserved
  • Reactivate in one tap
Pause in the app
Permanent & irreversible

Delete everything

Close your account for good: your profile and videos stop being shown at once. After the grace period your account is erased or locked away and hidden.

  • Profile & photos no longer shown
  • Videos & Echoes no longer shown
  • Messages: see the notes below
what happens & when
Right away
0h
Hidden from Pulse and search. You get a confirmation with the date.
Grace period
180d
Sign in within 180 days and choose to keep your account to cancel.
Erasure
~180d
Your account is erased or locked away and hidden, within 30 days of that date, usually within a week. Where we must keep records, it is locked away, not erased.
Backups
+4w
Encrypted backups cycle out within about four weeks of erasure.

Hidden, then erased or locked away

At the end of the 180 days. What is erased can't be recovered. Your profile, photos and videos that are locked away stay hidden from everyone, but are not erased. Messages work differently: see the notes below.
  • Profile, bio and photos
  • Videos and Echoes

Kept

Kept only where the law requires it, or where other members depend on it.
  • Payment and Baar records, for tax and accounting
  • Music royalty history, no longer linked to you
  • Data we're legally ordered to preserve
  • What other members depend on, shown without your name
  • One-to-one messages you sent: after the grace period, the other person can still read them under a neutral name until they are erased
See our Privacy Policy for retention periods.

Public photos and videos stay stored and can still be opened at their direct address until they are erased. Once erased, copies held by our content delivery network can stay viewable for up to about 24 hours. Nothing clears them sooner.

Files that are not public, such as identity documents, are never held in that network: once erased they are gone from our systems at once.

Messages: during the grace period a one-to-one conversation is closed to the other person. After it, they can still read what you sent, with a neutral name instead of yours, until your messages are erased.

If other members depend on something of yours, such as a video they answered with an Echo, a saga episode someone bought or a post shared to a story, it is kept and shown without your name.

web request

Don't have the app? Request here.

Enter the phone number or email on your account. We'll send it a one-time code.

It's the same deletion as in the app, with the same 180 days to change your mind.

Heads up: the code only goes to the phone or email on the account, so nobody else can delete it.
Need help first? support@tubaar.com
questions

Before you go.

Can I undo deletion after I confirm?
Yes — for 180 days. Sign in and choose to keep your account. After that it's permanent.
Does deleting the app delete my account?
No. Removing the app only uninstalls it — your account stays active. Use Settings → Account → Delete in the app, or the form above.
Does deleting my Tubaar account affect other apps?
No. Deleting your Tubaar account applies only to Tubaar.
Can I download my data first?
Yes. Go to Settings → Account → Download my data, or email privacy@tubaar.com.