Delete your account

For participants in the Agora News Study app

From inside the app

Open the app, go to Settings, and choose Delete account. Confirm once. This is the fastest route and needs nothing from us.

If you no longer have the app

Email privacy@agoranewsstudy.org from any address, with your Prolific ID or the pseudonym you used in the app. We process the request within 14 days and confirm by reply.

What deletion does

You can stop at any time without giving a reason. Payment for parts you have already completed is not affected.

Your login is disabled immediately. Any outstanding payment is made to your Prolific account, and your Prolific ID is then permanently removed from all study records, within 14 days. After that, no one — including us — can trace your data back to you.

Your survey answers, posts, and app activity remain in the dataset under your pseudonym, because the results could not be verified without them. Posts stay visible to your group under that pseudonym until the group ends. This cannot be reversed: once the link is removed, we can no longer find your records.

For everyone else, the link between records and Prolific IDs is destroyed within one year of the study's end, after which all data are fully anonymized.

The privacy policy describes everything the study collects and your rights under the GDPR.