Delete Your Account

This page explains how to delete your Drone Reporter account and the data attached to it. Drone Reporter is published by Kinami. The Android package name is io.kinami.dronetracker.

You can delete your account inside the app, or request deletion by email without installing the app.

1. Delete Your Account In The App

1. Open Drone Reporter and sign in.
2. Open Settings from the home screen.
3. Scroll to the Account section.
4. Tap Delete account.
5. Confirm twice. The app asks you to confirm, then asks a second time before it proceeds.

The deletion runs immediately. The app signs you out and returns to the login screen when it finishes.

2. Request Deletion Without The App

You do not need the app installed. Send an email to tomo@dronereporter.io with the subject line:

Delete my Drone Reporter account

Send it from the email address attached to your account, so that we can match the request to the account.

What we ask you for

• The email address on the account, if it differs from the address you are writing from.
• Which sign-in provider you used, Apple or Google.
• If you signed in with Apple and chose Hide My Email, the private relay address Apple issued for Drone Reporter.

We never ask for a password. Drone Reporter has no password of its own, because sign-in runs through Apple or Google.

If we cannot match the request to an account from the address you write from, we reply and ask you to confirm from the account email address. We do this to stop one person deleting another person's account.

3. What Gets Deleted

• Your account. The account record is deleted from our database.
• Your email address and name. These come from Apple Sign-In or Google Sign-In. They are deleted with the account record, not anonymised.
• The sign-in identifier that links your Apple or Google account to Drone Reporter.
• The link between you and every report you filed. The user reference on each sighting is cleared. The sighting itself is kept, which is covered in section 4.
• The link between you and every live-tracking trail you recorded. The user reference on the session and on every processed ray is cleared. The measurements themselves are kept, which is covered in section 4.
• Your registered devices. If you turned drone alerts on, the per-install identifier and the position held for alert targeting are deleted.

This cannot be undone. We cannot restore an account after deletion.

4. What We Retain

Your reports stay on the shared map. Deleting your account does not remove your sightings. It destroys the link between you and them. Each sighting keeps its location, its time, the direction the camera was pointed, the drone type, any description you wrote and its photo. Your sightings are removed from the agency view and from alerts. Your photos are kept the same way, with the database link to your account destroyed.

Your live-tracking trails are kept the same way, with you detached from them.

We do not call what remains anonymous. Removing an identifier is not the same as making data impossible to trace back to a person. A single report is far less revealing than a trail, but it still records a place and a time where somebody stood. A photo is kept the same way, and anything identifying inside the picture itself, a face, a house, a number plate, stays in the picture. We cannot edit the content of a photo. If you want a sighting and its photo removed rather than detached from you, email tomo@dronereporter.io before you delete your account to request their removal.

Retention, as set out in our Privacy Policy:

• Account data is retained only while your account is active.
• Observations are kept after you delete them or delete your account, with the link to you destroyed. They stay on the shared map.
• Live-tracking trails are kept with the link to you destroyed. Deleting your account removes that link immediately; otherwise it is removed once a session has been inactive for 90 days.
• Server logs (IP addresses, request metadata) are retained for up to 30 days.

We may also retain records that we are required to keep by law. We do not sell or share your personal data with advertisers or data brokers.

5. How Long It Takes

Deletion from inside the app takes effect immediately.

An email request is completed within 30 days of us receiving it. This matches the one month response window under the GDPR. We reply by email to confirm when the deletion is done.

6. Contact

Kinami
Email: tomo@dronereporter.io

Read the full Privacy Policy or the Terms of Service.