Last updated: August 10, 2026
About this page
This page explains how to request deletion of your account and personal data in SpearLog, the dive logbook and community app for spearfishing and freediving (developer contact: support@spearlog.app).
How to request deletion
SpearLog does not currently offer a self-service “delete my account” button inside the app. To have your account deleted, send an email from the address associated with your SpearLog account to:
support@spearlog.app
Use the subject line “Account deletion request” and include the email address of your SpearLog account. We may ask you to confirm the request from that email address before we proceed, so that nobody else can delete your account.
You can also delete individual dives, catches, photos, spots, comments and your instructor profile at any time from inside the app, without deleting your whole account.
What is deleted
When we delete your account, the following data linked to it is permanently removed from our live systems:
- Your login/account record and authentication identifiers, including any Google or Apple sign-in link.
- Your profile: display name, avatar, bio, home spot, “spearo since” year and equipment preferences.
- All of your dive sessions, including dates, locations, coordinates, notes, conditions and session statistics.
- All of your catch records: species, weight, length, quantity and catch details.
- All photos you uploaded (catch photos, session photos, dive-computer screenshots and your avatar), which are stored with those records.
- Your registered dive spots, including notes and webcam links.
- Your community content: comments, spot comments, likes and the messages you sent in group chats.
- Your instructor profile and its reviews, if you created one.
- Your notifications, saved preferences and any roles assigned to your account.
Deletion is cascading: removing your account removes the records that belong to it. It is permanent and cannot be undone, so please export or screenshot anything you want to keep before requesting deletion.
What may be retained
- Anonymised analytics and error logs. Usage events and crash/diagnostic records are unlinked from your account (the user reference is cleared) rather than deleted, and are kept for up to 24 months to help us keep the app stable. They contain no exact coordinates, private notes or messages.
- Feedback you sent us. Support and feedback messages may be kept, unlinked from your account, so we can track reported issues.
- Encrypted backups. Our hosting provider keeps automatic database backups for disaster recovery. Deleted data can persist in those backups for up to 30 days before the backups rotate and expire. Backups are not used to restore individual deleted accounts.
- Legal and security records. Where the law requires it, or where we need to prevent fraud or abuse, we may retain a minimal record (such as the fact that an account was deleted) for as long as legally necessary.
Because of backups and third-party processing, we do not claim that data disappears instantly everywhere at the moment you ask.
How long it takes
We acknowledge deletion requests within 7 days and remove your account and associated data from our live systems within 30 days of confirming the request. Residual copies in encrypted backups are removed automatically as those backups expire, within a further 30 days.