Delete your account

Spray — last updated 21 September 2026

You can have your Spray account deleted. This page says how to ask, what is removed, and what stays behind.

In the app

Open your profile, then the menu at the top right, then Delete account. The screen says what goes and what stays, asks once more, and does it immediately — nothing is queued and nobody reviews it.

Or by email

If you cannot get into the app, email paulnadler@gmail.com from the address you signed in with and say you want your account deleted. Asking from that address is how we know the request is yours; if you cannot, say so and we will find another way to check. Requests are actioned within 30 days, and usually within a few days.

What is deleted

Your account and everything that is about you:

• Your sign-in account, so the email address is no longer registered.
• Your profile: display name, photo, and the date you joined.
• The email address and the name your sign-in provider gave, both of which are held privately and never published.
• Your notifications, and the push tokens for your devices.
• Your gym memberships, and any list you kept to yourself.

Afterwards nothing in Spray can name you, and that is a property of how it is built rather than a promise to go and tidy up. Nothing in the app stores a copy of your name: a problem records who set it as an account, not as a name, and the name is read from your profile each time it is shown. Delete the profile and every one of those reads has nothing to find, so they all say Deleted user — on the problems you set, beside the climbs you logged, on your comments, and on any leaderboard.

What stays

What you put into the app stays in it. A problem you set is a route on a wall that other people climb and log and argue about the grade of; a wall you photographed is the gym's board. Those stopped being yours alone the moment you published them, and removing them would take something from everybody else.

• Problems you set, which afterwards read set by Deleted user.
• Climbs you logged, and the comments and grade votes on them, under the same name.
• Walls you photographed, and the holds marked on them. A wall belongs to the gym rather than to whoever set it up, and every problem on it depends on those holds.
• Gyms you created. A gym is a place, not a possession.
• Lists you made public, which somebody else may be working through.

If you are the last person who can change a gym

A gym always keeps at least one account able to change it — rename it, change its photo, decide whether it is public. If that is only you, deleting your account is blocked, and there are two ways out. Open the gym's Managers screen and let somebody else change it, or delete the gym. Either one unblocks the deletion.

Several people can hold that at once, and any of them can pass it to anybody else in the gym, so this is usually a thirty-second problem. Nobody can take it off anybody, though — it is given, and only its holder can give it up.

This is not about keeping your data. It is that a gym nobody can change is one whose walls, members and join code are frozen for everyone still climbing there.

Keeping the account, deleting the thing

You do not have to delete your account to remove something from it. In the app, any climb you have logged can be deleted, any comment you wrote can be deleted, and any problem you set can be deleted by you. Signing out removes that device's notification token.