Deleting Your Data — WhereAmI
Last updated: 3 September 2026
Applies to: the WhereAmI Android app (earth.whereami.app) and the website at whereami.earth
The short version
There are no accounts, so there is nothing to close and nothing to log into.
Two records exist because of something you chose to do. A share link deletes itself 30 days after you create it. A location request — where you asked somebody else where they are — deletes itself after 24 hours, and you can cancel it yourself before that. If you'd rather not wait for either, send us the link and we'll remove it.
How to request deletion
For a location request, you do not need to email anybody: open the page you
kept when you made it — the one at whereami.earth/r/{id}/{token} — and press
Cancel. The record is deleted on the spot, answer and all.
For a share link, or for a request whose page you no longer have, email
prikkiecompany@gmail.com with the link you want removed. Include the whole
thing, in the form whereami.earth/s/{id} — for example
whereami.earth/s/k7x2p9m4qd.
The random code at the end of the link is the only thing that identifies the record. Nothing in our database records who created a link, so without the code we have no way to find the one you mean. You don't need to prove who you are, and we won't ask.
We delete the record within 30 days of your request, in practice within a day or two. Once it's gone the link stops resolving for everyone still holding it.
What we hold, and what there is to delete
Share records — deletable
What's in one: the resolved address, its coordinates and the ground elevation, saved under a random 10-character code — plus the detail line you wrote, if you added one. That line is the only part of the record we didn't write ourselves, and it is deleted with the rest of it.
What isn't: anything that identifies you. No IP address, no device identifier, no account, no timestamp of who asked.
How long: 30 days from the moment you create the link. Expired links stop resolving immediately, and a scheduled job deletes the rows themselves. This happens whether or not you ask; a request only makes it sooner.
Location requests — deletable, and short-lived anyway
What's in one: the line you wrote for the other person to read, if you wrote one, and — once they have tapped — the address, coordinates and elevation their tap produced.
What isn't: anything that identifies either of you. Not who asked, not who answered, no IP address, no device identifier, no account.
How long: 24 hours from the moment you create it. After that it stops working and a scheduled job deletes the row. This happens whether or not you ask.
How to delete it sooner: Cancel, on the page you kept. Nothing is flagged or hidden — the row is deleted.
If you answered somebody else's request, this is the one place in the app where something about you is held and you cannot delete it yourself. You hold no code and no account, so there is nothing you could show us to identify the record, and we could not find it if you asked. What we can tell you is that it belongs to the person who asked, that they can delete it at any time, and that it deletes itself within 24 hours no matter what either of you does. The short life is there for exactly this reason.
The address cache — nothing to delete
When we turn coordinates into an address, we keep the result so the same place isn't looked up twice. Entries are filed under the coordinates, rounded to roughly an 11-metre or 1.1-kilometre square depending on how precise the original fix was.
What's in one: a place and its rounded coordinates.
What isn't: any identifier for you. Nothing records who asked, or when, from what device, or from what IP address. The cache cannot be used to work out that any particular person was anywhere — it's a reference table of what exists at a location, much like a map is.
Because no entry belongs to anyone, there is nothing in the cache that is yours, and so nothing in it to delete on your behalf.
Address corrections — on your device, not ours
If you corrected an address the app got wrong, that choice is remembered so you don't have to make it again.
What's in one: the address you picked, filed under a coordinate square rounded to roughly 110 metres. Nothing that identifies you, and no record of when.
Where it lives: on your device only. It is never sent to us.
How to delete it: use Clear remembered corrections, which is in the sign's own settings drawer — the control at the top right — in both the app and on the website. On the website it is also at the bottom of this page, or you can clear site data for whereami.earth. In the app, uninstalling removes it.
There is nothing for us to delete here, because we never had it.
Your appearance choice, if you pinned the sign to Light or Dark, is kept on the same terms and in the same place: setting it back to Auto clears it, and uninstalling the app removes it too.
Your share card choice, if you picked a design other than the default, is kept the same way: setting it back to the default clears it, and uninstalling the app removes it too. It holds the name of a design and nothing else.
Your language choice is kept the same way. On the website it is a cookie named
NEXT_LOCALE, the only cookie this site sets, and clearing site data removes
it; in the app it is one entry in the app's own storage, and uninstalling
removes it. It holds a two-letter language code and nothing else.
If you added the home screen widget, removing it deletes the stored address and stops the background lookups; uninstalling the app removes it too.
The list of requests you have made is kept the same way, on your device only: each one's code, the secret that reads it, when it runs out, and the line you typed. It never holds an answer, entries vanish as they expire, and clearing site data or uninstalling removes the whole of it. There is nothing for us to delete here either, because we never had it.
If you saved a spot — for parking, a campsite, a tent, wherever — it is kept the same way, on your device only. There is one at a time: saving again replaces it, and the Clear button beside it removes it outright. Uninstalling the app removes it too.
Accounts — none exist
There are no accounts, email addresses or passwords. No advertising identifiers, no crash reporting, no background location unless you have added the widget, no push notifications and no device token registered anywhere, and no analytics of any kind in the app. Uninstalling the app removes everything it kept on your device, and leaves nothing behind on ours beyond a share link or a location request you may have made — both of which expire on their own.
The website counts page views anonymously, without cookies and without storing your IP address. Those counts aren't tied to you or to any location you looked up, so there is no record of yours in them to delete — see the privacy policy for how that works. The one cookie the site does set remembers your chosen language and takes no part in that counting.
Your rights
Under the GDPR you can ask us to show you what we hold about you, correct it, delete it, restrict how we use it, or hand it over in a portable form.
For almost everyone the honest answer is that we hold nothing about you: there is no account to look up and no record tying any location to any person. What we can act on is a share link or a location request, because you have the code that identifies it — and a request you can simply cancel yourself.
The full picture is in our privacy policy.
Contact
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