Delete your account

This page explains how to delete your account and data in FlightDex, the Android app published on Google Play by FlightDex. Your data is yours. You can remove individual items — a flight, a boarding pass, a fare — or delete your whole account and everything tied to it, at any time and from inside the app. No email required and no waiting on us.

Deleting some of your data

You don't have to delete your whole account to remove something. Each of these works on its own, keeps the rest of your account intact, and takes effect immediately.

A single flight

Open the flight from your flight list and tap the bin icon in the top bar — it's labelled Stop tracking. The flight is removed from your list straight away.

One thing to know, because it surprises people: this removes the flight, but the corresponding leg stays in your Passport history, so it keeps counting toward your totals, countries and stamps. That's deliberate — your travel record is meant to outlast the entries you tidy away. To remove the history as well, delete your account, which erases both.

A boarding pass

Open the flight the pass is attached to, find it under Boarding pass, and tap the bin icon on that pass (Delete boarding pass). It is erased from your phone's encrypted storage. We never held a copy, so there is nothing else to remove.

A fare

Open the flight, tap the Fare row, and tap Clear. The amount is deleted from your device rather than set to zero. As with boarding passes, we never received it.

If you'd rather we did any of this for you, email [email protected].

How to delete your account

1. Open FlightDex and go to the You tab.
2. Scroll to Account and tap Delete account.
3. Confirm when asked.

Deletion happens straight away. Your account and its data are erased from our systems, your sign-in identity is deleted, and the app returns to a clean first-run state.

If you can't open the app

Email [email protected] from the address you signed in with, or describe your account so we can identify it. We'll delete it and confirm when it's done.

What is deleted

Deleting your account permanently erases all of the following from our systems:

• Your account record and its identifier
• Your sign-in identity, so the account no longer exists as a login
• Every flight you've added, along with its times, gates, terminals, seat, cabin class and booking reference
• Your travel history, Passport statistics and stamps
• Your trips, including any trip notes and packing lists
• Your notification and device tokens
• Any share links you created, and follow relationships on both ends — both flights you shared and flights you followed
• Your FlightDex Pro entitlement record
• Delay predictions made for your flights, and the records of how accurate they turned out to be
• Your boarding passes and any fares you've entered — see below, as we never receive either of these
• Any flight logs or share cards you exported, which the app leaves in temporary storage

This is a permanent deletion, not a deactivation. We do not keep a hidden or archived copy of your account, and nothing is recoverable afterwards.

On your phone, the app clears its cached flights, your settings and your stored Pro status, cancels any scheduled background updates, and drops the notification registration that identified your device.

What we never receive

Two things are deliberately never uploaded to us at all — and deleting your account still erases them, from the phone itself:

• Boarding passes. Held in encrypted storage on the device, never sent to our servers, never written to logs, and excluded from Android's backup and device-transfer.
• Fares you've entered. Stored on the device. We never receive them, so there has never been a fare of yours on our servers to delete.

Because these were never uploaded, there is nothing on our side to erase — so the app erases the local copies as part of the same deletion. They do not carry over to a new account on the same phone.

One honest exception, and it is not ours to reach: fares are included in your own Android backup, so that a figure you typed survives a reinstall or a move to a new phone. That backup belongs to your personal Google account rather than to us, and it is managed in your Google account settings. Boarding passes are excluded from it entirely.

If you subscribe to FlightDex Pro

Deleting your account does not cancel a Google Play subscription. To stop billing, cancel it separately in Google Play → Subscriptions.

Google is the merchant of record for all purchases. We do not hold payment details or transaction records — those are held by Google under their own terms. What we hold is the entitlement record that tells the app whether Pro is active, and that is deleted with your account.

What is kept, and for how long

Nothing belonging to your account is kept once it is deleted. Two things are worth stating precisely:

• Encrypted database backups — up to 3 days. Our database provider keeps a rolling point-in-time recovery window of 3 days, so deleted data can persist in that backup window until it ages out. Those backups exist to recover from failure and are not used to restore deleted accounts.
• Server logs — no account data. Our application logs record operational events such as flight numbers and internal record identifiers. They do not contain account identifiers, names, email addresses, or booking details, so there is nothing about you in them to retain or remove.

We keep no other copy of your data after deletion.

Questions about any of this: [email protected].