MUTLE

Data Deletion Policy

Last updated: April 18, 2026

1. Overview

This Data Deletion Policy explains how account deletion currently works in Mutle, what happens during the grace period, what data is typically deleted or anonymized, and what limited data we may retain for legal, payment, graph-integrity, fraud-prevention, or security reasons.

2. How to Request Deletion

You can request account deletion in either of the following ways:

  • In product - use the account deletion control in Settings when available for your account.
  • By email - send a request from your registered email address to support@mutle.so or privacy@mutle.so.

We may require reasonable identity verification before acting on a deletion request, especially where the request is submitted by email or involves a high-risk account.

3. What Happens First

When a deletion request is accepted, Mutle currently applies a soft-delete workflow first.

  • Your account is marked as pending deletion.
  • Your profile visibility is changed to private immediately.
  • Your account is hidden from normal discovery and public-facing use.
  • A deletion date is scheduled for 30 days after the request.
  • Security records may be updated to reflect the pending deletion status.
  • An audit log of the deletion request is created.

This means deletion is not always instantaneous at the infrastructure level, even though the account is functionally hidden right away.

4. Thirty-Day Grace Period

Mutle currently uses a 30-day grace period after a deletion request. During that period, the account is treated as pending deletion rather than immediately and irreversibly erased.

The grace period exists to reduce accidental deletion, support recovery where appropriate, and preserve short-term records needed for abuse review, payment disputes, and legal compliance.

5. How to Cancel Deletion

During the 30-day grace period, logging back into your account may cancel or interrupt the pending deletion workflow, subject to the product flow in effect at that time.

If you want to restore access during the grace period and login does not complete the restoration flow, contact support@mutle.so.

6. What We Typically Delete or Anonymize

After the grace period, we generally work to delete, anonymize, or de-link the following:

  • Profile information such as name, bio, headline, contact details, and profile images.
  • Account-level access to introductions, messages, and personalized product state.
  • User-facing discoverability and graph visibility connected to the deleted account.
  • Verification state and certain connected-account records no longer needed for compliance or security.
  • Personalized recommendations, saved watches, and similar account-tied discovery preferences.

Some information may be anonymized rather than fully deleted where that is necessary to preserve system integrity, aggregate analytics, graph history for other users, or legal records.

7. What May Be Retained

Even after deletion, we may retain limited data where permitted or required by law, including:

  • Audit logs and deletion records.
  • Security, fraud, abuse, and enforcement records.
  • Payment, billing, subscription, payout, tax, accounting, and chargeback records.
  • Records needed to enforce our terms or resolve disputes.
  • Backup copies that are deleted on a delayed cycle.
  • Content or metadata that must be preserved to protect the rights or records of other users.

Retained data is generally isolated from ordinary product use and kept only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose that justifies retention.

8. Messages, Intros, and Shared Records

Because Mutle is a network product, some records involve other people. Deleting your account does not always mean every message, intro event, notification record, or shared thread disappears from every other participant's history.

In some cases, we may remove your identifying fields, replace them with a deleted-user label, restrict access, or otherwise de-link those records instead of fully removing shared artifacts from every system.

9. Imported Contacts and Ghost-Profile Data

Deleting your account does not automatically guarantee removal of all non-user records that may exist in independent contact-import or ghost-profile systems where those records are also tied to other users, public-source enrichment, fraud-prevention, or graph-integrity workflows.

If your request relates specifically to imported contacts, ghost profiles, or unclaimed-profile records, contact privacy@mutle.so so we can review the request under the applicable legal and technical rules for that dataset.

10. Data Export Is Separate

Account deletion and data export are separate requests. Mutle currently treats export as a separate process, and export requests may be rate-limited.

If you want a copy of your data before deleting your account, request export first, then submit the deletion request once you have what you need.

11. Contact

If you have questions about deletion, restoration during the grace period, or data rights, contact privacy@mutle.so or support@mutle.so.