Draft — pending qualified legal review. This describes how Auto Collective actually works today so it can be reviewed by a lawyer before launch. It is not legal advice and is not yet in force.
Delete your account
Version 2026-09-draft · 25 September 2026
You can delete your Auto Collective account yourself, at any time, from inside the app. You do not need to ask us and you do not need a reason.
Delete it yourself
- Sign in and open Settings.
- Go to the Account section.
- Under “Delete account”, enter your password and type DELETE to confirm.
The account is removed immediately. There is no waiting period and no cancellation step.
What gets deleted
- Your profile, display name, username, bio and photo.
- Every vehicle in your garage, with its photos, build milestones, modifications, service records and valuation notes.
- Your private documents: receipts, title, registration and insurance files.
- Your posts, comments, likes, saves, follows, blocks and mutes.
- Your saved searches, watchlists and notification preferences.
- Your sessions, so every signed-in device is signed out.
Files you uploaded are queued for permanent removal from storage. Public build pages you created stop working straight away.
What we keep, and for how long
- Routine encrypted backups, which age out on their own schedule and are never used to restore a deleted account.
- Records we are legally required to retain, such as an abuse report someone else filed about your content. These are kept separately from your profile.
We do not keep a shadow copy of your garage, and we never sell your data.
Take your data with you first
Deletion cannot be undone, so export first if you want a copy. In Settings → Account → Export my data you can download everything we hold for you as a single file: profile, garage, posts, comments, saves and follows.
If you cannot sign in
If you have lost access to your account and still want it deleted, write to us from the email address on the account using the contact address published on this site. Say that you want the account deleted and include the username. We will verify you own the address before doing anything.
Deleting one car instead
If you only want a single vehicle gone, open it in your garage and delete it there, or set it to private. That leaves the rest of your account untouched.