Deleting your Tempo account

Deletion happens over 30 days, in three stages. Here is what happens, and when.

How we delete your account

Request
Deletion is confirmed in Settings → Account → Delete account.
The account becomes invisible to other people, stored credentials are purged, active sessions are revoked, and the account on the Tempo PDS is deactivated.
Right away
Restoration window
The account can be restored at any point during the next 30 calendar days by signing back in.
Posts, profile, and follows remain hidden from everyone while the window is open.
Next 30 days
Permanent erasure
The account on the Tempo PDS, along with Tempo-side data such as preferences, history, and linked analytics tokens and logs, is permanently purged from live systems.
Encrypted offline backups may hold residual copies for up to 30 additional days and are not directly accessible. Restoration is no longer possible.
After 30 days

How to request deletion

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In the app

Open Tempo on your phone.
Open Settings → Account → Delete account.
Retype your password to confirm.
Erasure starts immediately.

Signed in through a third-party AT Protocol PDS? The confirmation asks for the handle instead of a password, and only Tempo-side data is affected — see “3rd-party PDS” below.

No longer have the app?

Email goodbye@tempomusic.app to request the deletion of a Tempo PDS account. Third-party AT Protocol PDS accounts must use the in-app flow — see the section below.

Subject: Account deletion request
The Tempo handle (e.g. @username.tempomusic.social) of the account to delete

To prevent abuse, the Tempo team sends a verification challenge to the email registered with the account before running the operation. Ownership of that email must be confirmed by replying to the challenge.

Requests are processed within 15 business days, then follow the same three-stage 30-day process described above.

goodbye@tempomusic.app

What we delete and what we keep

Deleted after 30 days

Profile
Posts
Likes
Notifications received and sent

Retained after deletion

Aggregated, anonymized analytics used to measure overall app usage
Reported content and moderation history (reports, sanctions, decisions), retained indefinitely to meet legal obligations and prevent repeat offenses
In some contexts, your replies stay visible in an anonymized form
Encrypted offline backups, which may contain residual copies for up to 30 additional days and are not directly accessible

For complete details, see our Privacy Policy.

Accounts signed in with a third-party AT Protocol PDS

For accounts created through a third-party AT Protocol PDS — such as Bluesky or a self-hosted provider — the app offers Erase my Tempo data instead of Delete account. Confirmation is by retyping the handle rather than a password, since third-party PDSes may not accept password authentication.

The operation erases every piece of data Tempo stores on its own servers (appview index, preferences, stored credentials, analytics). It does not deactivate or delete the AT Protocol account itself, which continues to live at its original host.

Records published from Tempo (app.tempomusic.*) stay in that AT Protocol repo and can be removed directly through the PDS. The same 30-day restoration window applies to the Tempo-side data.

The email intake above does not apply here — Tempo has no visibility on the email registered with a third-party PDS, so ownership cannot be verified. If the app is no longer installed, reinstall it and sign back in to use the in-app flow, or contact the PDS provider directly.

Contacting us

Need more help with the account deletion process? Contact us at: