Delete your account

Last updated: 30 September 2026 · Version 2.5

Delete from the app (fastest)

Open Piaar and go to Account → Delete account. The app asks you to confirm and to briefly sign in again — so nobody else who picks up your phone can delete your account — and then deletion starts immediately. No email needed, no waiting for us.

If you're the sole owner of an organization workspace, you'll need to transfer ownership to someone else first — we can't delete an account that's the only owner of an active organization.

How the in-app deletion works

In the app, open Account → Delete account.
Read what will be removed, and confirm you want to proceed.
Verify it's really you — depending on how you signed up, you'll re-enter your password or re-confirm through Google, Apple, or LinkedIn.
Deletion starts immediately. Your profile disappears from search and matches right away, and you're signed out on all devices when it completes.

Can't access the app?

You can also request deletion by email. Write to us from the email address on your Piaar account with "Delete my account" as the subject. We'll verify the request is really from you and act on it without undue delay — at the latest within one month of receiving it, as the GDPR requires.

Email privacy@piaartech.com

What gets deleted

Your profile — name, role, bio, location, category, and account settings
The skills you offer and the skills you're looking for, and any custom skill proposals
Your profile photo and any images you uploaded
Your connections, sent and received invitations, and favourites
Your side of each conversation — a message you sent may still be visible to the other person in their own copy of it, shown as coming from a deleted account
Personal events you created and your RSVPs — an event that belongs to an organization stays with that organization
Posts and articles you published
Your notification history and the push-notification token for your devices
Your block list and any block records involving you
Any nearby-meet (Bluetooth) session records
Your Piaar code and the profile link built on it — every link you've shared stops working
Records of whose profiles you viewed, and of who viewed yours
Your consent log, including any event contact-sharing choices
Your sign-in credentials for Piaar

How long it takes

Immediately

Your profile is removed from search and matches, and you stop appearing to other people. We don't currently run scheduled backups of this database, so there's no backup-rollover period behind it — in-app deletion is the whole process, not the start of one.

What we may keep, and why

We retain a limited amount of information only where the law requires it — for example records needed for tax, fraud-prevention, or statutory compliance — and only for as long as necessary. Messages you sent may remain visible to the other person in their own copy of a conversation, shown as coming from a deleted account.

Two things specifically survive deletion, and it's fairer to say so plainly:

Invoices and accounting records, if you were a business customer. Swedish accounting law requires us to keep these for seven years, and deleting your account does not override that.
Contact details already exported by an event organizer. If you chose to share your contact details with an organizer and they downloaded their attendee export before you deleted your account, that copy is in their hands. We stop you appearing in any future export, but we cannot reach into a file they already hold. To have it removed, contact that organizer directly — they are responsible for it as an independent controller.
Aggregate and pseudonymised records. Some records survive in a form that isn't tied back to you by name — for example a scrambled marker used to confirm a deletion happened, and aggregate event or networking statistics that no longer identify who was involved. These aren't personal data about you in the way the rest of this list is.

Your other rights

Deletion (the GDPR “right to erasure”) is one of several rights you have. You can also ask us to give you a copy of your data, correct it, export it in a portable format, or restrict or object to certain processing. To exercise any of these, email privacy@piaartech.com. If you're in the EU/EEA and feel we've mishandled your data, you can complain to your local authority — in Sweden, the Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten (IMY). Full detail is in our Privacy policy.