Taking your data out, and taking it away

The export

In Account there is a button that downloads a JSON file: your account row without the password hash, every page you own with all its blocks and settings, and the daily view counts behind your statistics. Not a report — the records themselves, in the shape they are stored in.

It is useful for three things: keeping a copy before a big rewrite, moving your links somewhere else, and checking that what we say we store is what we store. The third is the one people forget, and it is the only way a privacy page can be verified rather than believed.

1. 01Account, then «Download JSON». Nothing is queued and nothing is e-mailed; the file is built on the spot.
2. 02Images are referenced by their storage key, not embedded; download them from your own page if you need the files.
3. 03Statistics come as daily counts, which is the finest resolution that exists — there is no per-visitor record to export.
4. 04Take an export before deleting anything. Deletion is not reversible.

The deletion

• Deleting a single page removes it, its uploaded files and its statistics, immediately.
• Deleting the account removes every page, every file, every statistic and the account row itself.
• Nothing is hidden instead of deleted, and nothing is kept «for analytics». There is no soft-delete flag to be turned back.
• Your address stays parked afterwards, and that is the one thing that survives.

Why the name stays parked

A freed name would be claimable by a stranger, and every old link, business card and post that pointed at you would start pointing at them. The name being taken forever is the cost of that not happening. It cannot be re-registered — not by you, not by anyone — which is worth knowing before you delete a page you might want back.

The exception is a page created by a program and never claimed by a person: if nobody ever visited it either, it is removed after sixty days and its name is released rather than parked, because nobody ever shared it.