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Delete your account
This page is for readers of Today News Africa. You can delete the reader account you use on todaynewsafrica.com and in the Today News Africa app for Android (com.todaynewsafrica.app) here, without installing the app. Accounts at Today News Africa are separate from any other newspaper or service: deleting this one does not affect any other account you have.
What is deleted
- Your email address, display name and password
- Every signed-in session and your recovery codes
- Saved articles, reading history and reading preferences
- Your profile photograph
- Newsletter sign-ups and notification settings
- Your comments: the text and your name are removed; the place in a conversation shows “Deleted reader”
- Complimentary access granted to the account
Deletion is immediate and cannot be undone.
What is kept, and why
- Payment and subscription records (dates, plan, amounts, Stripe references) — needed for accounting, tax and refunds; they keep only an internal account number, not your email or name. Stripe keeps its own payment records under its own policy.
- Newsletter consent history (when you subscribed or unsubscribed) — kept as proof of consent; it holds only the internal account number.
- Security and audit records (for example, that an account was deleted, and when) — they hold only the internal account number.
- Moderation records (a past suspension or comment ban) — they hold only the internal account number.
None of what is kept contains your email address or name in our records.
Delete the account now
Sign in first, then come back to this page: Sign in to your account. Forgot your password? Use one of your recovery codes on the sign-in page.
Delete some of your data and keep your account
Signed in at Your account, you can at any time: clear your reading history (and switch it off), remove saved stories one by one, and remove your profile photograph. Each is deleted at once. To ask for any other data to be deleted, send a privacy request; the records listed above as kept are kept for the reasons given.
Can’t sign in?
Send a deletion request from the contact form from the email address on the account. We will confirm that the account is yours by replying to that address before we delete it, and tell you when it is done.
A paid subscription that is still renewing must be cancelled first (Your account → Manage subscription) so that you are not charged again.