Your data and deleting your account

Your photos come back out as the originals, deletion is real, and your account is yours to close in a couple of taps. Here's what Partyreel keeps and how to take it with you.

What Partyreel keeps

• Your account: the email you verified, your display name, your profile photo and handle if you set them, who you follow and block (private to you), and your plan.
• Your events: the albums you host, their settings, and their media.
• Your uploads: the photos and videos you added to any event, attributed to your confirmed name, or to a typed display name wearing a small unverified mark if you added them signed out.
• A record per upload of when and from where it arrived (the network address and device details of the upload itself), kept only as long as the upload exists and used only to handle abuse. Location metadata inside photos is stripped before upload; see photo metadata and location data.

There's no advertising profile and nothing is sold. The formal version is the privacy policy.

Who owns the photos

You do, whatever you upload; the terms grant Partyreel only what's needed to store and show them for the event. A host owns their album's arrangement and controls what's shown, and can remove any upload; the person who took a photo keeps their rights to it.

Take everything with you

The originals come back out as they went in. From any event you host, Download opens Take it home, where Originals gives you the full set as a zip; from Your uploads on your profile, you can save anything you've added anywhere. See download your photos, videos, and albums.

An event can't be transferred to another account. If a different person needs to own an album, download it and re-upload it from their account.

Deleting photos and events

Hosts remove photos from the album and delete events from the event's settings; both wait in Deleted for 30 days, restorable, and then are permanently gone. Guests can delete their own uploads too, right on the album or from Your uploads on their profile, and a guest's own delete is final: it's deleted from the event right away and can't be recovered, by the guest or the host. See hide, remove, and restore.

Deleting your account

1. Account
2. Delete account

Open your account settings, scroll to the bottom, and choose Delete account. The confirmation lists what happens, with the time it all finishes in your own time zone. You'll confirm with your password, or with a six-digit code we email you if you sign in with Google or with codes.

Before you press it:

• A paid plan is cancelled right away. You won't be billed again. There's no refund for the rest of a period you've already paid for, so if you're mid-cycle and only want to stop renewing, cancel the plan in billing instead and keep the account.
• Events you host are deleted right away, with every photo and video in them. Download anything you want to keep first; see download your photos, videos, and albums.
• Photos and videos you added to someone else's event stay in that host's album under their control, without your name or email, unless you remove them too. When you have any, the confirmation offers to remove them all with the account, and you can delete them yourself any time from Your uploads on your profile. The record kept of each upload for handling abuse lasts as long as the upload does.
• Deletion is permanent. A deleted account can't be restored.

What happens next: your name, email address, profile photo and handle come off your profile immediately, your name and email come off the photos you added to other hosts' events, your events are deleted, and you're signed out. Then our nightly cleanup erases the rest of your account for good, media and files included, by the time the confirmation named.

Starting fresh with the same email

Until the nightly cleanup has run, the email address can't sign in or start a new account, and if you try, Partyreel tells you when it can. After that, the address is free again: use it like anyone new, and you'll start with a brand new, empty account. If it's still blocked after the time you were given, send us a note.