Delete your account and data

Pinch — Collaborative shopping list · Last updated: July 15, 2026

You can request deletion of your Pinch account and associated personal data at any time, without needing to reinstall the app.

How to request deletion

What gets deleted

Data	Handling
Name, email, profile photo	Permanently deleted
Nickname	Permanently deleted
Personal preferences (language, ordering, notifications)	Permanently deleted
Push notification token	Permanently deleted
Group membership	Removed: your account leaves every shared group

What is kept, and why

Pinch is designed for lists shared among multiple people in the same household. The items and purchase history you contributed are part of the group's shared list and are also used by the prediction engine for the other members (for example, to estimate when a product is about to run out).

For this reason, when your account is deleted:

• the items and purchases recorded under your profile remain visible to the group, so as not to interrupt the other members' predictions and history;
• they are, however, unlinked from your identity: wherever your name or nickname previously appeared as the author of a purchase, the generic label "Former member" will appear instead;
• no remaining data allows those entries to be traced back to you, once your name, email, and nickname have been deleted.

If you'd prefer to leave no trace at all in the group, let us know in the same request: we can consider targeted removal of the individual purchases you recorded, with the caveat that this reduces prediction accuracy for the other group members.

Deleting only the account (without leaving the group)

If you simply want to stop using the app without requesting full deletion, you can leave the group yourself from the "Group" screen in the app: your pointers are removed and you return to a groupless state. This does not, however, delete your Google account or the data already collected — for that, the email request above is required.