Delete your account and your data
This page explains how to delete your Opensolr account, the same account the Opensolr Photos Android app signs in with, and everything stored under it. Deletion is permanent.
Delete only the photos, keep the account
Opensolr Photos stores what it finds in a search index that belongs to your account. You can delete that index yourself, at any time, without deleting your account.
- Sign in at opensolr.com/users/login.
- Open My Indexes and find the index created by the app. Its name starts with photos_.
- Choose Delete and confirm. The index and every document in it are removed from our servers.
The photos themselves are never stored by us. They stay on your phone; the index holds only the file path, the words and the numbers that make the photo searchable. Deleting the app from the phone does not delete the index, so do this step as well if that is what you want.
Delete the whole account
Account deletion is handled by us, on request, so that we can check no service is still running and no invoice is still open.
- Write to support@opensolr.com from the email address of the account. We only accept a request that comes from that address.
- Use the subject Delete my account and name the account email in the message.
- We answer with a confirmation, then delete the account. Requests are processed within 30 days, normally within a few working days.
What is deleted and what is kept
When an account is deleted, this is what happens to the data held under it.
Account
Deleted. Email address, name, password, API keys and sign-in history.
Indexes
Deleted. Every index of the account and every document in it, including the indexes created by Opensolr Photos.
Photos
Nothing to delete. Photos are sent to our servers only to be read, and are not stored. They remain on your phone, where you delete them yourself.
Places
Deleted with the index. The city and country of a photo are held in the index, never separately.
Invoices
Kept. Accounting law requires us to keep issued invoices and the payment records behind them. They hold the billing details, not your indexed content.
Server logs
Kept for a short period as part of normal operation, then overwritten. They hold request lines, not indexed content.
How we handle data in general is described in our Privacy Policy. For anything about a deletion request, write to support@opensolr.com.