What goes, and what stays
Deleting takes, at once: your hero and its story, the tokens and machines you uploaded, your friends and friend requests, your place in challenges, the duels you called, the kudos you gave and the kudos on your events, the invites you sent and the invites to your address, the feedback you sent, your picture, your email settings, and every link and limit tied to the account. A duel someone else called against you stays in their history with no trace of you, so that level isn't fought again.
What stays for a while:
- Backups, for up to 6 months. Our server keeps snapshots of the database: hourly ones for 24 hours, daily ones for 14 days, weekly ones for 8 weeks, and a nightly copy goes to a second machine, kept for 6 months (checked 23 October 2026). So a deleted account can survive in those backups for up to 6 months. We use them only to bring the whole site back after a disaster. A restore from the hourly, daily or weekly snapshots replays the deletions: before the site answers again, it replays our list of deleted accounts and deletes each one again. The list holds each only as its account number, when it was made and a random number (nothing about you). If the home server itself were lost and rebuilt from the second copy, deletions from the last day before the loss could come back, and we would delete them again on request.
- Challenges you played in. Their results and the other players' spoils stay. In one that hasn't settled yet, your tokens that week stay in it, counted for your side, until it settles. Two exceptions while it is still under way: on Beat your normal you drop out of your side's average instead, and if nobody else on your side is left, it is called off and your tokens go. After it settles a side's score, which holds what you put in, stays while anyone else on your side is still in it, since it is the result they earned; once nobody on your side is left, the others see it as played against "a player who left". The challenge is deleted once nobody who played in it is left.
- Brevo's sending log. Brevo sends our email and keeps its own record of each one (the address, the subject and when) under Brevo's privacy policy.
- Your picture can stay in browser and network caches for up to a day.
- The server's request log lists the pages asked for, with no IP address and no account, until 30 MB of newer lines have been written or the site is next updated.
- Feedback emails. Feedback you sent through the site was also emailed to us, and that copy stays in our mailbox until you ask us to delete it: write to [email protected].
- Analytics. If you pressed Accept for Google Analytics on a public page, Google may hold counts of those visits under a random id in your browser. It is never linked to an account, so deleting your account doesn't touch it. Cookie settings in the footer of a public page stops it from then on.