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Data retention
Last updated June 12, 2026
How long each category of data is kept, and what happens to it when you delete items or your account.
1. Retention schedule
| Data | Kept for | Then |
|---|---|---|
| Saved content (videos, bookmarks, nuggets, notes, summaries, quiz history, recall history) | As long as your account exists | Deleted when you delete the item or your account |
| Highlights + private span notes (your text highlights and their attached comments) | As long as your account exists | Deleted when you delete the highlight, delete the item (your highlights on it are swept), or delete your account (cascaded) |
| Account data (email, name, avatar) | As long as your account exists | Deleted with account deletion |
| Sessions, extension tokens, mobile tokens | Until expiry or revocation (sessions ≤ 30 days, extension tokens ≤ 30 days sliding) | Deleted |
| Server logs and diagnostics | Up to 30 days (rotating) | Overwritten / deleted |
| Encrypted database backups | 35 days (rolling nightly backups) | Automatically expired — deleted account data leaves backups within this window |
| Billing & subscription records | As long as required by tax and accounting law (typically 7–10 years) | Deleted |
| Webhook / payment event records | Up to 24 months (fraud prevention, dispute resolution) | Deleted |
2. What account deletion does
Deleting your account (Settings → Danger zone, or by emailing hello@recl.app) immediately and permanently removes your user-owned rows from the production database: saved videos and their links to you, bookmarks, nuggets, folders, notes, highlights and their private span notes, quiz and recall history, sessions, tokens, push notification subscriptions, and feed signals. Shared resources (e.g., a public library summary of a video that other users also saved) are not deleted, but lose any link to you. Residual copies in encrypted backups expire automatically within 35 days. Billing records are retained only as long as the law requires.
3. Questions
Retention questions: hello@recl.app.