Delete your account

You can close your account yourself, under Settings, Data and privacy. The step is final, which is why Spacement asks three times. This guide tells you beforehand what goes and what stays.

First: keep a copy

Once the account is gone, so is your route to the data. If you want to keep it, export it first. That is one click, described in Export your data.

Step by step

1. Open Settings and go to Data and privacy.
2. Click Delete account at the bottom.
3. Type the word DELETE into the field, in capitals, exactly as shown.
4. Confirm it is you, with your password, your second factor or an emailed code.
5. Click Delete permanently.

Why you have to type a word

A click can happen by accident. A typed word does not. The identity check in the same dialog follows the same idea: an open session alone should not be enough to destroy an account.

What gets deleted

Your profile, your listings and your messages go with the account. Listings leave the directory immediately and their previous links stop working.

A running subscription is cancelled as part of the same step, and your customer record at the payment provider is removed.

What stays

Two things outlast the deletion, both for legal reasons:

• Invoices already issued. Commercial and tax law set retention periods. Those records sit with the payment provider and stay there.
• Evidence in open moderation cases. If there is an unresolved abuse case involving your account, it is anonymised instead of deleted. Your personal details go, the case stays traceable. That protects the other people involved.

If you only need a break

If you want to keep the account but disappear from the directory, deleting is more than you need. As a host you can pause individual listings instead of giving up the whole account.