Delete your account and data

1.Deletion for the Babu app

This page belongs to the Babu app, published by Harun Yaman. It explains how to delete your account and the associated data, and exactly what happens when you do.

If you never switched syncing on, you do not have an account. Your records are then held only on your device, and the sectionDeleting everything is all you need.

2.Deleting everything

1. Open Babu and go to Settings.
2. Choose Privacy, then Delete all data.
3. Confirm when asked.

What happens depends on whether you have syncing switched on. The app tells you before you confirm, but here it is in full:

Without syncing: this device only, because there is nothing else

If you never created an account, your records exist only on the phone. They are deleted immediately and permanently, not merely flagged as deleted. This cannot be undone.

With syncing: the server first, then the device

With syncing active, the same button also deletes your account and the data on the server — in that order: server first, phone second.

The order is deliberate. The other way round, a network failure would leave an empty phone next to a full server: the data lost to you, the copy retained. If deletion on the server fails, nothing local is touched and you can try again.

What exactly is deleted, and what remains if a second member is in the household, is set out under What is deleted, what remains, and for how long.

If you want to keep the data, use the export in the settings first.

3.Deleting individual data without giving up your account

You do not have to give up everything to get rid of something. Every individual entry can be deleted, and your account stays.

1. In the day view or the timeline, tap the entry you want to remove.
2. Choose Delete in the edit sheet.

This works for every kind of entry:

• sleep records and individual night wakings
• feeds, expressed milk and storage items
• nappies, temperature readings, medication
• growth measurements, crying episodes, milestones, activities
• your own recipes and saved items

A whole child can be deleted too, along with every record belonging to them, without touching your account. That is the route if you want to remove all data about one child but keep the household.

With syncing active, these deletions are passed to the server. A deletion marker remains there at first, so that the second parent’s device picks the deletion up rather than re-uploading the entry at the next sync. Marker and data are removed permanently after 90 days.

4.Deleting your account and server data

1. Open Babu and go to Settings.
2. Choose Account, then Delete account.
3. Confirm when asked. The account is deleted straight away; no email confirmation is needed.

You do not need to contact support for this. If you have already removed the app, the email route is under If you have already removed the app.

5.What is deleted, what remains, and for how long

Case A: you are the last member of the household

The household and everything attached to it is deleted immediately and with no retention period:

• details about the child (name, date of birth, due date, sex)
• sleep records including wakings and settling methods
• feeds, expressed milk and its storage
• nappies, temperature readings, medication
• growth measurements, crying episodes, teeth, milestones, activities
• daily mood and day markers
• your own recipes and saved list
• stored estimates from previous days
• your user account itself, with sign-in details and all active sessions

Case B: someone remains in the household

Your membership ends and your user account is deleted. The records remain, because they belong to the other parent as well: they are that person’s records about the same child.

An app in which one parent can wipe everything from the other at the press of a button would have a bigger problem than an unresolved one. The right to erasure under Article 17 GDPR does not extend to data another person keeps about the same child.

If the household was assigned to you, that role passes to the longest-standing remaining member. Invitations already redeemed stay marked as used but lose the link to you.

If you want nothing at all to remain, agree it with the second parent first: once every member has deleted their account, Case A applies to the last person and the household disappears entirely.

Individual entries you deleted earlier

When you delete a single entry in the app, a deletion marker remains on the server at first. It is needed so that the second parent’s device picks the deletion up rather than re-uploading the entry at the next sync. That marker and the associated data are removed permanently after 90 days.

That is the only additional retention period there is. It does not apply to deleting the account itself.

Local data and photo diary

Photos from the local photo diary remain exclusively on your phone and never leave it. They are deleted when you empty the photo diary, delete entries, choose “delete all data”, or uninstall the app. No photos are stored on the server at any point.

What we do not hold in the first place

Payment details sit with Apple or Google, not with us. Deleting your account does not end an active subscription: that is managed in the App Store or Google Play and must be cancelled there.

6.If you have already removed the app

Write to us from the email address you signed in with:

support@babusleep.app

We delete the account under the same rules as above and confirm when it is done. We reply within one month (Article 12(3) GDPR), and usually far sooner.

Please do not send us identity documents. If we have doubts about who you are, we will ask about a specific detail only the account holder could know.