Data Deletion

Last updated: 2026-08-11

You can delete your account and the personal data associated with it at any time. There are two ways to do it.

1. Self-service, in the extension

This is the fastest route and takes effect immediately:

Open the extension and go to Settings (the ⚙ button opens the full-page settings).
Under your profile, click “Delete my account & data.”
Confirm (password accounts re-enter their password as a safety check).

What this does. Your account, credentials, and all sessions are permanently removed; your personal usage data (view counts and your onboarding questionnaire answers) is deleted; and your past annotations are de-identified — detached from your identity and replaced with a random pseudonym so they remain usable as anonymous research data but can no longer be traced to you.

2. By email

If you can't sign in, email jmurry@addresshate.org from the address associated with your account (or include your account identifier) and ask us to delete your data. We will verify the request and process it, typically within 30 days.

Full erasure

By default deletion anonymizes your contributions (above). If you want your annotation content hard-deleted as well — not just de-identified — say so in your request and we will purge it, including from our Cloud SQL projection.

Removing on-device data

Signing out ends your session (unsent work stays queued locally so it isn't lost). Removing the extension from Chrome (chrome://extensions → Remove) deletes all of its on-device storage.

What may remain after deletion

Unless you request full erasure, anonymized annotations that are no longer linked to you may be retained for research. Standard, non-identifying server logs may persist for a limited period as part of routine operations.

Contact

Deletion requests and questions: jmurry@addresshate.org.