Deleting your Kinstories account

In the app or on the website

• Open the Kinstories app or app.kinstories.app and sign in.
• Open “My settings” (the gear icon at the top) → the “Account” tab → “My data” → “Delete account”.
• Type the word “delete” and tap “Delete forever”. If you're asked to confirm it's you, enter the code from the email. The account is deleted right away.

If you can't access the app

Write to info@kinstories.app from the email address your account uses, with the subject “Delete account”. We'll make sure it's really you and delete the account within a month — usually much sooner.

Before deleting

• If you own a circle that has other members, transfer ownership to one of them (in “Circle settings”). Without this the account can't be deleted: the others still need the circle.
• If you want to keep your data, download it: “My settings → Account → My data → Download my data”.

What is deleted right away

• The account: name, email, sign-in methods (Telegram, passkeys), device sign-ins, notification settings and channels, the Inbox.
• Circles where you are the only member — entirely, with all people, dates and stories.
• Your newsletter answers and reads, your invitations (they stop working), access to other people's private stories.
• Your entries in the server request log.

What remains

If information about you yourself remains in a shared circle and you want it removed, write to info@kinstories.app — we'll help. More about data — in the privacy policy.

• In shared circles — the people, dates and stories you added: they are the circle's shared data. They remain without an author; your account is unlinked from them.
• Entries in the change feed of shared circles — without your name, for up to a year.
• Database backups — for up to 24 months. They are encrypted, stored in the EU and deleted automatically; we restore the database from a backup only after a failure, never to bring back a deleted account.