Last updated 18 August 2026
Send a message to desredmon@bright.net from the email address the account uses, with
the subject Delete my account. We do not need a reason. We will confirm within
7 days and complete the deletion within 30.
Open Account from the main menu and choose Delete account. You will be asked to confirm once.
| When | What |
|---|---|
| Immediately | You are signed out and cannot sign in again. Notifications stop and the notification token is deleted. You are removed from matchmaking. |
| Immediately | Your name is replaced everywhere it appeared. Anyone mid-match against you sees a former player rather than a name. |
| Immediately | Games you were playing continue for the other players, with your fleet left on the water so they can finish. They cannot see anything of yours they could not already see. |
| After 30 days | Your account is permanently erased: sign-in record, email address, profile, your copy of your game history, career statistics and purchase record. |
| Within 90 days of each game ending | The games themselves. A game is a single shared record holding both fleets and every shot both ways — see below. |
Why a game takes longer than your account. A game is not stored as your half and their half. It is one record, holding both fleets, every shot in both directions and both players' state together, because that is what a game is. There is no way to take your half out of it without destroying the other player's game as well — and we promised them their finished games for 90 days too.
So we delete every game whole, 90 days after it ends, which happens anyway and to everyone. In the meantime what is left in it is not you: your name is gone from it on day one, and after 30 days there is no account, no profile and no sign-in for it to point at. We would rather tell you this than write a shorter sentence that is not true.
Why 30 days and not instantly? Two reasons, and both are about people rather than about us. Deletion is easy to tap by accident — especially by a child — and a short window means a mistake is recoverable by writing to us. It also lets games already in progress reach an ending instead of collapsing for everyone else. Nothing is used for anything during that window; the account is already closed.
Nothing that identifies you. We keep counts that are not attached to any person — how many matches have been played in total, for example — because they contain nobody's data and cannot be traced back.
A parent may delete a child's account the same way, from the parent's own email address. The child's data follows exactly the same schedule.
If you delete a parent account that has child profiles under it, we will stop and tell you which children are attached, because a child's game runs on the parent's licence and we are not going to take it away by surprise. You can then choose to close the children with you. We do not leave a child account behind with no parent on it.
Write to desredmon@bright.net within 30 days and we can stop the deletion. After that
it is gone and we cannot bring it back — there is no copy to restore from, which is rather the
point.