Delete your Gusi Budget account

In the app, in under a minute

This is the fastest route and it needs nobody's help. Open Gusi Budget, go to Settings, then Delete account. The app shows you exactly what will be removed and what will stay, and asks you to type your email address to confirm. Deletion happens immediately.

If you cannot open the app

You do not need the app, and you do not need to reinstall it. Email support@gusistudios.com from the address you signed up with, asking for your account to be deleted. We will confirm and delete it within 30 days, and in practice much sooner.

Write from the address on the account if you can. If you cannot, say so and we will find another way to establish that the account is yours before deleting anything, because deleting on the word of a stranger would be its own kind of failure.

What is deleted

• Your account and your email address.
• Your membership of any household.
• Your settings, including your appearance and currency choices.
• Your entitlement record, meaning any ad-free purchase attached to the account.
• Everything stored on your device, once you sign out or uninstall.

What is kept, and why

Expenses in a household you shared with somebody else stay with that household. They are that household's records as much as yours, and removing them would silently change another person's budget. The app tells you this before you confirm, and offers to take your own entries with you when you leave a household instead.

Entries you added to a shared household will remain, but they will no longer be connected to you. The amount, date and note stay as part of that household's records; the record of who entered them is deleted with your account.

Leaving the household first does not change this. Leaving copies the entries you choose into your own budget; the household keeps its own copy either way, because those entries are its other members' records too. If you need something removed from a household, ask its owner to remove it, or write to support@gusistudios.com.

Backups are overwritten on a rolling basis and are fully replaced within 30 days. We may keep a minimal record of the deletion itself where we are required to, for security, fraud prevention or legal compliance.

Deleting some of your data, and keeping your account

You do not have to delete your account to remove part of what is stored. Each of these works in the app, on its own, at any time:

• One expense. Press and hold it in the list, then choose Delete.
• A category. In Categories, tap the ✕ next to it. Its expenses move to Uncategorized rather than being deleted.
• Your membership of a shared household. In Household, choose Leave this household. You decide which of its entries are copied into your own budget: all of them, only the ones you added, or none. The household keeps its own entries either way, because they are its other members' records too.
• Someone else's access to your household. If you own the household, you can remove a member in Household.

For anything the app does not let you remove itself, such as the name and profile picture that came from Google or Apple sign-in, email support@gusistudios.com from the address on your account and say what you want deleted. We will confirm and delete it within 30 days.

How long deleted expenses are kept

You do not have to delete your account to remove one expense. Deleting a single expense or a category removes it from the app straight away, and we erase it permanently 90 days later. We hold it for those 90 days so that a mistake can be undone and so a shared household's history stays consistent for everyone in it. After that it is gone automatically, without anyone having to remember.

A purchase does not survive the account

If you bought ad removal, the record of it on our side is attached to the account and is deleted with it. The purchase itself belongs to your Google Play account or your Apple ID, so if you later create a new Gusi Budget account on a phone signed in to the same one, the app finds the purchase and restores ad removal (on iPhone, with Restore purchases in Settings). One purchase unlocks one Gusi Budget account at a time.

Who to ask

Gusi Budget is provided by Gusi Studios LLC, at 2200 W 4th St. Apt. B, Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39401, United States. For anything about deletion, or about what is stored and why, write to support@gusistudios.com. Our privacy policy lists everything the app stores.