Delete account and data

Last updated: September 30, 2026 · Applies to the Wochentisch app (iOS and Android)

You can delete your Wochentisch account and the data associated with it yourself at any time. There are two ways: directly in the app, or by sending us an email.

1. Delete your account in the app

Open the Wochentisch app and sign in.
Go to Settings → Profile.
Scroll down to the Delete account section.
Enter your password to confirm and tap Permanently delete account.
Confirm the prompt Really delete account? with Delete permanently.

Your account is deleted immediately and this cannot be undone. You will be signed out automatically.

Deleting your account does not cancel an active Premium subscription – subscriptions are billed by Apple or Google. Please cancel it in your App Store or Google Play account settings (see our support page).

2. Request deletion by email

If you no longer have access to the app, email us from the address registered with your account at support@smolabs.de with the subject “Delete account”. We will delete your account within 30 days and confirm the deletion by email.

3. Which data is deleted?

Deleting your account permanently removes:

your profile: name, email address and password (which was only ever stored as a hash),
your household memberships,
households in which you are the only member – including all recipes, recipe photos, meal plans, shopping lists, favorites and invitations in them,
invitations you sent or that were addressed to your email address,
your product usage statistics (events about sessions and feature usage, see privacy policy, section 6).

4. Households with other members

If you own a household that still has other members, that household is not deleted – the other members should be able to keep using it. Ownership automatically passes to the member who has been in the household the longest. Recipes and meal plan entries you created in that household remain there, but are no longer linked to any person. If you want to remove this content as well, delete it in the app or leave the household before deleting your account.

5. Which data is retained – and for how long?

Server log files (e.g. truncated technical access data) are deleted automatically by our hosting provider after a short period and are not linked to your account.
Purchase and subscription records: purchases made through Apple or Google are stored independently by those providers and by our service provider RevenueCat; we have no control over this. Statutory retention periods under German commercial and tax law apply to invoice and accounting records (generally up to 10 years); these are pseudonymous purchase identifiers without names or payment data.
Email delivery: delivery logs for activation, password reset and invitation emails that were already sent may remain with our email provider for a short time.

Beyond that, we do not retain any personal data related to your account.

6. Questions

If you have questions about deleting your data, contact us at support@smolabs.de. Details on data processing are in our privacy policy.