Deleting your account permanently removes your profile, your published site, and every piece of content you've added. There's no undo. If you're not sure, consider unpublishing instead — that takes the site offline without destroying anything.
How to delete
From the iOS app
- Open Settings.
- Scroll to the bottom and tap Delete account.
- Confirm in the alert. Your account is deleted immediately and you're signed out.
From the web dashboard
- Go to Settings → Account.
- Click Delete account at the bottom.
- Confirm.
What gets deleted, immediately
- Your user record and all authentication credentials (passkeys, OAuth links).
- Your profile and all profile fields.
- Your published site (the subdomain returns "site not found" within a minute).
- Every publication, news item, press mention, lab member, award, grant, education entry, experience entry, presentation, course, and service entry.
- All custom pages and their content.
- Uploaded photos (profile photo, lab logo, lab member photos).
- Pending autofetch items.
- Analytics history.
Subscription handling
If you have an active Pro subscription:
- Stripe (web): we cancel the subscription as part of account deletion. You won't be charged again.
- Apple (iOS): we can't cancel an Apple subscription on your behalf — you need to cancel via Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions before or after deleting. Otherwise Apple will keep charging you for a Pro account that no longer exists.
Backup and log retention
Per our privacy policy:
- Personal data is purged from production systems within 30 days.
- Rolling database backups are retained for up to 30 days, after which deleted records are permanently removed.
- Server and access logs (anonymous traffic data) are retained for up to 90 days.
- Billing records are retained for 7 years to comply with US tax/accounting requirements.
If you change your mind
After deletion completes there's no recovery — we can't restore your account from a backup. If you decide later that you want to use FacultyDex again, you can sign up with the same email; you'll get a fresh empty account.