Delete your account

What happens

1. At once, your profile, posts and replies disappear from HeyNaija, and you are signed out on every device.
2. For a grace period nothing is erased. Sign in during that time and you can keep your account.
3. Then your account is erased. This cannot be undone.

What is erased

• Your name, bio and profile photo.
• Your email address and the ways you sign in.
• The text and images of your posts and replies.
• Your likes, reposts, bookmarks and idea votes.
• Who you follow, block and mute, and the communities you joined.
• Your notifications, your notification settings and your age record.

What is kept, and why

• A blank placeholder, shown as @deleted-…, in place of your account, so other people’s conversations and reports still make sense. Your handle is held for 30 days, so nobody can take it straight away.
• Other people’s replies to your posts. Your posts show as no longer available.
• Posts of yours that were reported or taken down, kept privately as the record of moderation decisions and blanked later, and the reports and decisions themselves.
• A record that you asked for your account to be deleted, and when that was done.
• Backups, which age out within 30 days, and copies of sign-in emails, kept for 7 days.

How long we keep things