Delete your data

If you have an account on this site

Sign in, open your account and choose Delete my account. You type DELETE to confirm. At once:

• the accounts you linked are unlinked, and your public voter file, if you had one, goes down;
• your Founder's Pass is closed: your name leaves the case board, and your number stays taken so that it is never given to anyone else;
• your orders and checkouts are cut loose from you; the amounts stay, without your name (see below);
• Business Cameo applications that were not paid are withdrawn;
• your email stops receiving the newsletter;
• your sign-in is deleted.

You can also download your data first.

Deleting your account does not blank the public comments you made on the platforms, or the handle they were made under, in our comment records. To have those forgotten as well, follow the next section. [[LEGAL REVIEW]]

If you only commented on our posts

You do not need an account. Email [[LEGAL REVIEW]] set PRIVACY_CONTACT_EMAIL with the platform (Instagram, Facebook, YouTube or TikTok) and the handle you comment under. A person on our team will:

• blank your handle and the text of all your comments in our comment records, and in the copies of those texts that we keep to teach our comment-reading model;
• remember that this account asked to be forgotten, so that a later read of the same comments cannot bring the handle or the words back;
• take the account out of any voter file it was linked to;
• clean by hand the other copies that hold your handle or your words, listed below under "What we keep, and why". [[LEGAL REVIEW]]

Your votes stay as counts, because a result that was announced cannot change. They no longer carry your handle, but they stay attached to the id the platform gives your account (see below), so they are not anonymous to our team. [[LEGAL REVIEW]]

You can also delete your own comment on the platform; our next read of the post sees that it is gone.

How long it takes

We answer within 30 days. [[LEGAL REVIEW]]

What we keep, and why

• Orders: the date, the amount and the Stripe reference, without a link to you, because tax and accounting law require us to keep them. [[LEGAL REVIEW]]
• Votes and the League numbers behind them, as counts. A vote stays attached to the id the platform gives your account (a number or a code, not your handle), and we keep a one-way fingerprint of that id and the platform on a do-not-restore list, which is how a later read of your comments is kept blank. [[LEGAL REVIEW]]
• For a TikTok account that TikTok, through Upload-Post or Zernio, gives us no id for, the id we use is made from the lower-case handle itself (it starts with "handle:"). That id has to stay, so for such an account a form of the handle remains in our records after you are forgotten, and the fingerprint on the do-not-restore list is of that handle, which someone who guessed it could check. Only our team can read either. [[LEGAL REVIEW]]
• Cleaned by hand, not automatically, when we answer your request: the raw copy of a comment as Instagram or Facebook delivered it (it holds the handle and the words); the summary of what commenters said in a part, which lists by handle the commenters whose theories came true and which our writers may use to credit them in a later part; and the files of labelled comments that were already written to teach and test our comment-reading model (they hold the words, not the handle). Until we have done that they still hold your handle or your words. A model that has already been trained on a comment is not retrained. [[LEGAL REVIEW]]
• A record that your request was made and done, with no handle or other personal details in it.
• Your email address on a list of addresses we must not email, if you had subscribed to the newsletter.

Data that Meta, Google or TikTok hold about you is theirs: delete it in their own settings. The privacy page lists who else handles data for us.