What to send
An email with the link to the post, and a line saying it is yours. That is the whole requirement. No identity document, no notarised statement, no legal citation, and no explanation of why — the reason is yours and we do not need it.
What you can ask for
Full removal deletes every row about that item. Partial removal keeps the numbers — score, comment count, the hourly history — and drops the caption and the link, which is what carries your handle. Most people want the second one. Say which; if you do not say, we do the full removal.
What we do
We delete the rows, not flag them. We also add the item to a block list, so the next hourly collection does not quietly pick it up again — without that step a deletion undoes itself within the hour, which would make the promise worthless.
How long
Seven days, and usually the same day. The law allows thirty; the archive is small enough that seven is honest, and if that ever stops being true the number on this page goes up rather than the answer going missing.
Cases where we do not ask anything
- You deleted the post. Data collected from a page that no longer exists should not survive in someone else's archive.
- Your account is private now, or always was.
- You are not the author, but the post is about you and identifies you.
- You are asking on behalf of someone who cannot ask themselves.
What this does not cover
We can only remove things from our own archive. We cannot take a post down from TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, YouTube or anywhere else — those are not ours, and a request sent here does not reach them. If the post itself is the problem, the platform is where that has to start.
Where to write
kauvpereira@gmail.com. It is a personal address rather than one at our own domain — we have the domain but no mailbox on it yet, and an address that bounces on a page promising to answer you is worse than no page at all. A person reads this one.
The full detail of what the archive stores, and what it deliberately does not, is on the privacy page.