Deleting your data
EarthCape has no user accounts. Everything you record — observations, species records, GPS tracks, photos, audio notes, project settings — is stored on your device only. EarthCape Oy does not receive it and does not store it, so there is no account to close and no server-side copy for us to erase. You delete your data yourself, and it is gone.
1. Delete an individual record
Open the observation, survey visit, locality or attachment in the app and choose Delete. It is removed from your device immediately, together with any photo or audio file attached to it.
2. Delete everything
Either of these permanently removes all EarthCape data from the device:
- Uninstall the app. Android and iOS delete the app's private storage when the app is removed.
- Android: Settings ▸ Apps ▸ EarthCape ▸ Storage ▸ Clear storage. This empties the app without uninstalling it.
- iOS: Settings ▸ General ▸ iPhone Storage ▸ EarthCape ▸ Delete App.
3. Delete backups you created
If you used Backup & Restore to save a copy to your own Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox, that backup lives in your storage account and is not affected by uninstalling the app. Delete the EarthCape backup file from that service to remove it. EarthCape Oy has no access to it.
4. Delete records you exported elsewhere
If you published or pushed observations to iNaturalist, GBIF, Zenodo or Strava, those copies belong to your account on that service. Delete them using that service's own tools. EarthCape Oy cannot delete records held by a third party on your behalf.
What is deleted, and what is kept
| Detail | |
|---|---|
| Deleted from your device | All observations, survey visits and GPS tracks; all photos and audio recordings made in the app; notes and custom field values; localities and project configuration; app settings; cached offline map regions and downloaded species lists; the app's local device identifier. |
| Retained by EarthCape Oy | Nothing. The app requires no account and does not upload your survey data to EarthCape servers, so no copy exists on our systems and there is no retention period. |
| Held by others | Backups in your own cloud storage, and records you exported to iNaturalist, GBIF, Zenodo or Strava. These are retained under that provider's policy until you delete them there. |
Requests made while using the app
To show weather at your position the app sends your coordinates to the Norwegian Meteorological
Institute (api.met.no). Map, species-lookup and place-search requests reach their providers
in the same way. These requests carry no account identifier, because the app has no accounts, and they
are not stored by EarthCape Oy. Each provider may keep ordinary server logs under its own policy. The
privacy policy lists every request the app can make.
Need help?
If anything above does not work, or you believe EarthCape Oy holds data about you, write to info@earthcape.com and we will respond.
EarthCape Oy, Finland
info@earthcape.com