Deleting your data

BanditKin is end-to-end encrypted and requires no account — there is no email, username, or password tied to you. Your data lives only as ciphertext on our relay (which we cannot read) and on your circle's paired devices. You can delete it at any time.

Delete your device's data (in-app)

1. Open BanditKin on the device you want to remove.
2. Go to menu → Members (or Settings).
3. Remove this device from the circle (an admin can also remove it from their phone).
4. Removing the device deletes its data from the relay, and the circle's encryption key is rotated on the remaining devices.

Or request deletion by email

Email privacy@banditkin.com with enough detail to identify the device or circle, and we will delete the associated data from the relay.

What is deleted

Your location and location history, text and voice messages, places, and the device's metadata (battery/online status, device identifiers) held on the relay.

What is kept, and for how long

Location history is retained only for the app's history window and then automatically discarded. After a device is removed, its stored ciphertext is deleted from the relay. If your circle self-hosts the relay, all data lives on hardware the operator controls and is deleted there.

Questions: privacy@banditkin.com