Gaugely — Delete Your Data

1 · Delete your whole account, in the app

This is the fastest route. It runs immediately and you do not have to wait for us.

1. Open Gaugely on your phone.
2. Open Settings, then Account.
3. At the bottom of the Account screen, tap Delete account.
4. A dialog headed Delete account opens. It lists what is deleted from the server, what is kept but no longer linked to you, and what stays on this phone.
5. Type your account's email address in full, where the dialog says “Type <your email> to confirm.” The red confirm button stays disabled until it matches, and the server checks it again before deleting anything.
6. Tap Delete account in the dialog.

Deletion runs at once, in a single database transaction: either all of it happens or none of it does. It cannot be undone. On success the app says “Account deleted. Your data on this phone is untouched.” If it fails, nothing was deleted and you are still signed in — the app tells you so rather than pretending it worked.

2 · Delete your whole account, by email

If you cannot use the app — you no longer have the phone, or you cannot sign in — email daniel.f.velez@gmail.com from the email address your account uses and ask us to delete your account. Sending it from the account's own address is how we confirm the request is yours.

We will action it within 30 days. It performs the same deletion described in section 4.

If you also want your community contributions removed rather than just de-attributed (see section 5), say so in the same email.

3 · Delete some of your data and keep your account

You do not have to delete your account to remove data. Each of these works on its own.

Delete individual records in the app

Delete a trip, a fuel fill-up or a vehicle in the app, the way you normally would. If you are signed in, the next sync pushes that deletion: the record's stored contents on the server are overwritten with an empty object and the record is marked deleted. That marker is what makes the record disappear from your other devices, and it is itself deleted when your account is deleted.

Your settings, themes, metric overrides, PID lists and CAN lists sync as whole collections rather than as individually deletable records: clearing or changing them in the app overwrites the stored copy on the next sync.

Private vehicle photos — email us for these

Being straight about a limitation: the app currently has no way to delete a private vehicle photo from the server on its own. There is no delete endpoint for them, and if you remove the local file, the next sync downloads the server's copy back to your phone. Your photos are removed when your account is deleted (section 4), or you can email daniel.f.velez@gmail.com and ask us to remove a specific vehicle's photos from your account. The same applies to the photos of a vehicle you deleted — deleting the vehicle does not remove its uploaded photos from our storage.

Stop analytics collection

Switch analytics off in the app's Settings. It calls the analytics SDK's own disable function, and no further events are sent from that moment. The app stays fully usable.

Events already collected cannot be deleted for you individually, and we will not pretend otherwise. They are never linked to your identity — we never attach an account, email or profile to an analytics event — which is exactly why there is no way to find “your” events and remove them. They are deleted when they reach the 12-month retention limit. See section 3 of the privacy policy.

Withdraw community contributions or a contributed public photo

You can have your community contributions or a photo you contributed to the public pool withdrawn without deleting your account. Email daniel.f.velez@gmail.com from your account's address, saying which contributions or which photo, and we will remove them.

Remove everything held on this phone

Uninstall the app. That removes all of the on-device data in section 6, including cached photos, recordings and exports. It does not touch your account or anything synced to the server — use section 1 or 2 for that.

Signing out is not deletion: it removes the session token from the device and leaves your account and its data on the server.

4 · What deleting your account destroys

All of the following is destroyed on our server, in one transaction:

• Your account record — your email address and your display name / handle.
• Your sign-in credentials — the stored hash of your password, and any provider tokens held for the account.
• All of your sessions, so every signed-in device is signed out.
• Any pending email-verification or password-reset tokens issued to your email address.
• Everything you synced — trips, fuel fill-ups, vehicle profiles, settings, themes, per-vehicle overrides, PID lists and CAN lists, together with the deletion markers described in section 3.
• Your profile row, including trust level and contribution points.
• Your saved sensor-to-gauge picks (your own metric overrides).
• Your AI chat sessions, if you used the in-app assistant.

Your private vehicle photos

Photos you uploaded for yourself are not database rows — they are files in our object storage, in a folder named after your account identifier and readable only by your account. Once the account is deleted, the server deletes those files.

One honest detail: that file deletion happens after the account is gone, and it is best-effort. If the storage system errors at that moment, your account and every record above are still permanently deleted, but the image bytes can survive as orphans under an account identifier that no longer exists — unreachable through the app and attached to nothing. If you want that confirmed, email daniel.f.velez@gmail.com and we will check and remove them by hand.

6 · What this does not touch: the data on your phone

Most of what Gaugely produces never leaves your device, so it is not ours to delete. That includes your live vehicle readings, your vehicle profiles, gauge layouts, presets, themes and app settings, your trip history and fuel log, your PID and CAN definitions, your recordings, probe logs and exports, and the photos you attached to a vehicle.

Deleting your account leaves all of it exactly where it is on the phone. Uninstalling the app removes it. The full statement is in section 2 of the privacy policy.

7 · Retention

• On your phone: kept until you delete it in the app or uninstall the app. Uninstalling removes all of it.
• On the server: the deletion in section 4 is immediate. Backups, if any, are purged on their normal cycle.
• Legal minimum: we may retain the minimum records we are legally required to keep.
• Community contributions: kept for as long as they are useful to the shared vehicle database, de-attributed as described in section 5, unless you ask us to remove them.
• Analytics: usage events are retained by our analytics provider for up to 12 months — on our current plan, 30 days — and then deleted. They are not linked to your identity, so they cannot be singled out and deleted per person — see section 3.

Questions about any of this: daniel.f.velez@gmail.com. Full details of what Gaugely collects are in the privacy policy.