Account deletion

Delete your Budget Lightly account

Budget Lightly, by Matthew Scholefield

You can delete your account here without downloading the app or waiting for manual approval. Deletion starts immediately after you confirm with your current password and cannot be undone.

What to do

Sign in with your username and password.
Review what is deleted and kept.
Enter your password and confirm permanent deletion.

What is deleted and what is kept

Data	Deletion or retention
Account and access data	Account/profile, password credentials, sessions, memberships, associated invitations, and your FX quotes are deleted immediately after successful confirmation. There is no additional waiting or recovery period.
Budgets without other members	Permanently deleted in the same operation, including expenses, plans, and synchronization history.
Shared budgets and financial records	Kept for remaining members until they delete the budget, except your authored expenses and their receipt images are deleted, authored recurring descriptions are cleared, and authored split-payment plans are stopped and scrubbed. Your account attribution is removed. Other shared text can still contain information entered by members.
Shared synchronization records	Historical changes are cleared. Scrubbed collaborator replay records remain while the budget exists.
Device copies and exports	Not remotely erased. They remain until the people holding those copies remove them.
Operational logs and previous correspondence	Not erased by account deletion. Host logs have size/count rotation limits; registered host support copies expire 30 days after case closure. Zoho mailbox and paper correspondence are separate copies with no current automated expiry. See the privacy policy for limits and broader deletion requests.
Previously submitted provider data, where applicable	Not erased by account deletion. Hosting, Zoho Mail and web-resource providers handle information within their roles; see the privacy policy's service-provider section. Budget Lightly does not currently send receipt images or support messages to an AI provider.
Backups and moderation evidence	Historical backups expire separately after 14 days through hourly cleanup, with a 14-snapshot limit and deletion-safe recovery protection. Content-safety evidence has no automatic expiry. These copies are not erased by the account-delete operation; see the privacy policy's retention limits.