This page explains how to delete your account in SMELLiT, the research app published by the Weizmann Institute of Science on Google Play and the App Store.
How to ask for deletion
In the app
Open SMELLiT → Settings → Delete my account. This opens a message to the study team. Send it.
Without the app
Email smellita@weizmann.ac.il with the subject “Delete my SMELLiT account” and the phone number you signed up with. We may ask you to confirm that the account is yours.
We reply within one month.
Before you delete
If you want to be paid for the questionnaires you completed, request payment in the app first: Settings → Quit the study, then follow the payment steps. Quitting alone stops your notifications but keeps your account.
What is deleted and what is kept
We delete, within one month of your request:
- your sign-in account and recovery code, so your phone number can no longer sign in;
- your payment email address, once any payment due to you has been made;
- your support messages and their attachments;
- the link between your account and your study code.
We keep:
- your research answers, photos and survey answers under your study code, no longer linked to you;
- results already analysed or published;
- a record that your phone number has taken part, so that each person takes part only once, until the study stops recruiting new participants;
- payment records that financial rules require us to keep, for 7 years.