Delete your account

Last updated: 4 September 2026 · Data Concept Studio Michał Szarek · Kraków, Poland

You can delete your Briefcaster account and its data at any time. There are two ways to do it: from inside the app, or — if you no longer have the app installed — by email.

1. Delete it from inside the app

1. Open Briefcaster and go to Account.
2. Tap Delete account.
3. Confirm. The confirmation is deliberately two-step, because deletion cannot be undone.

Deletion happens immediately: your data is removed as part of the request, your session is signed out, and the app returns to the sign-in screen. There is no waiting period and no “deactivated” state you can be talked out of.

2. Delete it by email (no app needed)

If you have already removed the app, or cannot sign in, email us from the address your account uses:

Email us to delete my account

We confirm the request comes from the account owner, delete the account, and reply to confirm — within 30 days of receiving the request, and normally within a few business days. We ask you to write from the account's own email address; if you cannot, we may need another way to verify that the account is yours before deleting it.

What gets deleted

Deleting your account permanently removes:

• Your account — email address, profile details, sign-in identities (including Google or Apple sign-in links) and all active sessions.
• Your feeds and every source in them (topics, RSS/website sources, connected YouTube channels).
• Your briefs — every generated episode: its entry, its show notes and its transcript. (The audio file itself is removed separately, on storage retention — see below.)
• Generation history for those feeds, and the record of which articles had already been used.
• Usage counters and any unlocked-brief grants tied to your account.
• Subscription records held for your account.
• Push notification device tokens — every device registered to you stops receiving notifications.
• In-app notifications in your inbox.
• Reports you filed about briefs.
• Saved sources — the show-note sources you bookmarked.
• Anything else holding your e-mail address — a waitlist sign-up made from our website, and any pending verification tokens.

What is kept, and for how long

• Backups and operational logs. Encrypted infrastructure backups and server logs may still contain residual copies for a short period after deletion. They age out on their normal rotation, are not used to restore a deleted account, and are not accessible to us as account data.
• Product usage events, anonymised. Playback and rating events are kept for aggregate product analytics — they tell us which voices, formats and lengths work. As part of deleting your account we replace the account reference on those rows with a random identifier that is never recorded anywhere else, in the same transaction that removes your account, so the events remain usable as statistics and cannot be linked back to you or to each other's owner. If you would rather they were deleted outright, say so in your deletion e-mail.
• Audio files, for up to 180 days. The episode entries go immediately, but the MP3 files themselves sit in encrypted object storage and are erased by an automatic retention rule 180 days after they were produced. They are no longer reachable from the app or from any share link once the account is gone. If you need them erased sooner, ask in your deletion e-mail.
• Short-lived generation diagnostics. Traces we keep to debug failed brief generation, tied to a feed rather than to you, are swept automatically within days.
• Records we are legally required to keep. Where the law requires us to retain something (for example to comply with an obligation or to resolve a dispute), we keep only that record and only for as long as required.

Deleting less than everything

You do not have to delete the whole account to remove content. Deleting a single feed inside the app removes that feed's sources and all of its generated briefs. If you would rather receive a copy of your data than delete it, email us at the address above.

See also our Privacy Policy, Terms of Service and Support.

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Ostatnia aktualizacja: 4 września 2026 · Data Concept Studio Michał Szarek · Kraków, Polska