Deleting From Inside the App
This is the fastest route and needs nothing from us:
- Open Odyssey Journal and sign in.
- Go to Settings.
- Scroll to the Account section.
- Choose Delete Account, then tap Delete My Account in both confirmation windows.
Deletion is immediate and cannot be undone. Your profile and every post you published disappear at once.
Deleting After You Have Uninstalled
If the app is no longer on your device, you do not need to reinstall it. Send a message from the email address registered to your account to:
Write "Delete my account" in the subject line. We will confirm the request, verify that it came from the account holder, and complete the deletion within thirty (30) days. You will receive a confirmation when it is done.
What Is Erased
Everything tied to your identity is removed from the database and from object storage:
| Data | When it goes |
|---|---|
| Profile: name, username, bio, avatar, website, home location | Immediately |
| Travel posts, photographs, captions, locations and travel dates | Immediately |
| Comments, likes, bookmarks and collections | Immediately |
| Messages you sent and received, and message requests | Immediately |
| Follows, blocks, reports you filed, search history and notifications | Immediately |
| Push notification tokens | Immediately |
| Authentication record and sign-in sessions | Immediately |
The database records go in a single step; the app then deletes your photographs from storage straight away. The database is backed up once a day and each backup is kept for seven (7) days, so a copy may persist in an encrypted backup for up to seven days after deletion. It is not readable by the app and expires with the backup.
What Is Kept, and Why
A few narrow categories survive deletion:
- Aggregate, non-identifying counts — for example the total number of entries written across the service. These carry no user identifier and cannot be traced back to you.
- Records we are required by law to retain — for example a record that a deletion request was made and honoured, kept only for as long as the applicable statute of limitations requires, as described in section 8 of the Privacy Policy.
- Activity log (Law No. 5651) — a record of when, and from which IP address, you created, edited or deleted posts, comments, messages, collections and profile details, with your account ID, the type of action, the item concerned and the user agent of your app. It does not contain the content itself. As the provider hosting user content, Turkish Law No. 5651 requires us to keep it for at least one year: each record is kept for one (1) year from the action and then deleted automatically. It cannot be seen in the app and is disclosed only to authorities legally entitled to request it.
- Push notification delivery records — the text of notifications already sent (which can include the display name of the person who triggered them), the related item IDs and the device push token. They sit in a delivery log that is not linked to any account. They are deleted automatically 30 days after the notification is sent.
Crash diagnostics sent to our error-monitoring processor (Sentry) have email addresses masked on your device and are linked only to your random account ID. They are deleted automatically when Sentry's retention period ends (at most 90 days); if you want them removed sooner, write to privacy@odysseyjournal.app.
Deleting Less Than Everything
If you want to keep your account but remove specific material:
- A single entry: open it and choose delete. It is removed at once.
- A photograph inside an entry: edit the entry and remove the photograph.
- A copy of your data before you go: in the app, Settings > Account > Request My Data opens an email to privacy@odysseyjournal.app. Send it from the email address of your account and we will send you a copy of your profile, posts, comments, collections and connections.
Questions
- Data and deletion requests: privacy@odysseyjournal.app
- General support: support@odysseyjournal.app
- Developer: Arif Gültaş, Istanbul, Türkiye
- Privacy Policy: odysseyjournal.app/privacy-policy