Delete your The Weekly Plate account

Deleting your account permanently removes:

• Your sign-in account — your email address, display name, and profile photo, deleted from our authentication provider (Clerk)
• Your profile — household size and group membership
• Your personal meal library — every meal you added or imported, with its ingredients, recipe, tags, and photo
• Your weekly meal plans — every week you have planned
• Meal photos you uploaded — removed from our image storage, unless the same photo is still in use by a meal someone else imported
• Invitations — any group invitations addressed to your email address
• Collections you published — meal collections you created as a collection author

A few things survive deletion because they are no longer only yours. We do not keep them to hold on to your data — removing them would destroy other people’s.

• A shared group library, if other members remain. Meals and plans in a group workspace are shared with everyone in that group. When you delete your account you are removed from the group, and if you were its owner, ownership passes to another member. The shared meals and plans stay for them, with your name detached from anything you contributed. If you are the last member, the group and its shared library are deleted with your account.
• Meals other people already imported.Importing from a collection copies the meal into that person’s own library. Those copies are their data and stay with them.
• Routine backups. Our database provider keeps encrypted backups for a short period. Deleted records may persist in those backups until they age out, and are not restored into the live service.
• Records we are legally required to keep — limited information kept only where the law, security, or fraud prevention requires it.

Deleting from inside the app closes your sign-in account as you confirm it: you are signed out at once and cannot sign back in. Your meals, plans, photos and other app data are removed separately, moments later, once our authentication provider has notified the app. In the ordinary case that is a matter of seconds, and we allow up to 24 hours for it if a retry is needed.

Email requests are handled within 30 days of us verifying that the request comes from the account holder, and normally much sooner. Encrypted backups holding already-deleted records age out within 30 days.

If you believe data of yours is still here after 24 hours, tell us at theweeklyplateinfo@gmail.com and we will remove it by hand.

There is no export or undo. If you want to keep your meals or plans, copy them out of the app first. If you share a group library and want to keep a copy of meals you added, another member will still have them after you go.

Ask us anything about deletion at theweeklyplateinfo@gmail.com. Our Privacy Policy explains what we collect and why.