Delete your account from the app or website
The fastest way to delete your account and all associated data:
- Sign in to Alien Tavern (in the app or at alientavern.com).
- Go to Settings.
- Scroll to the Delete Account section.
- Enter your password and type DELETE MY ACCOUNT to confirm.
- Select Permanently Delete.
Your account is deleted right away and you are signed out.
No password? If you signed up with Google or Apple, select Email me a confirmation link in the same section instead. We email a link to your account’s address; open it within 30 minutes while signed in to the same account, type DELETE MY ACCOUNT, and select Permanently Delete. Each link works once.
What gets deleted
When you delete your account, we permanently remove your profile and personal data, including your username, profile details, photos, posts, comments, messages, connections, and any stored Facebook cross-posting connection. This is a permanent (hard) deletion, not a temporary deactivation — it cannot be reversed.
UFO sighting reports you sent in are the exception: they are released as open data under CC BY 4.0, so they stay, anonymously. Published reports stay published, with their photos, and reports still waiting for review can still be published. Your name, email address and IP address are removed from them, and they are no longer linked to your account.
We may retain a minimal, anonymized record where required by law (for example, to prevent fraud or comply with legal obligations). We do not keep this to identify you.
Request deletion by email
If you can no longer sign in — for example, you use Google or Apple sign-in and no longer have access to that account — you can ask us to delete your data by email:
- Email info+alientavern@greenrobot.com from the address associated with your account, with the subject Data Deletion Request.
- Tell us your Alien Tavern username so we can locate your account.
We will verify your request, delete your data, and confirm by email once it is done, typically within 30 days.
If you get the emails without an account
Every email has an unsubscribe link at the bottom. It opens a page with an Unsubscribe button: press it and we delete your subscription, which is everything we keep about you (your address, whether you get the emails daily or weekly, and when you signed up and confirmed), and you get no more emails. Opening the link without pressing the button changes nothing. Where your mail app shows its own Unsubscribe button, that does the same in one step.
A sign-up you never confirmed is deleted after 7 days on its own.
For a copy of what we hold, or to delete it without one of the emails to hand, write to info+alientavern@greenrobot.com from that address.
Disconnecting Facebook cross-posting
Alien Tavern does not use Facebook to sign in. Facebook is only an optional feature that lets you automatically cross-post your public Alien Tavern posts to a Facebook Page you manage.
If you connected a Facebook Page and want to disconnect it without deleting your whole account, go to Settings → Autopost and select Disconnect next to Facebook. This removes the Page connection and access token we stored. You can also revoke access from Facebook → Settings & Privacy → Settings → Apps and Websites. Deleting your Alien Tavern account (above) removes this connection automatically.