Project SEEN - Withdrawal
Leaving is always an option; removing all memory of you from the server is a slightly longer process.
Because your participation is fully anonymous, the process for requesting a server purge works differently than you might expect. Read this before you uninstall.
Your anonymity
When your device registers with the server, no identifying information is stored. Your device generates a random ID and that ID is all the server knows about you. There is no name, no account, no email, no IP address, not even a phone version or model on record. The server cannot connect your participation to you as a person.
This is by design, and it is worth naming plainly as a feature of the project: the server is not building a profile of you. It receives condensed files, logs a device ID it cannot trace, and that is the extent of what it holds.
The consequence is that withdrawal works differently than a typical "delete my account" request. There is no account. There is no form on this website that could identify your device because nothing here knows what your device ID is. That knowledge only exists inside the app.
If by ending participation, you're content with permanently stopping file transmissions, then all you need to do is uninstall the app. However, if you'd like to proactively remove all of your files from the server before ending participation, there's a simple process you need the app for (or, deleting them yourself is always an option).
⚠ Understand before you uninstall the app
When you uninstall the app, your participation ends, file transmission ends, and your device authentication to the server is destroyed; the server will never be able to recognize you by that ID. This means if you uninstall before completing a withdrawal request through the app, the link between your device and its server ID is gone. There will be no way to authenticate a purge request and no way to identify which files on the server belong to your device. Reinstalling afterward will not give you your old device ID either, so it's imperative you wait before uninstalling. Stopping sync is not the same as uninstalling; the app supports pausing all file transmission without being removed. Use that if you need a break while you decide or wait.
If this matters to you, complete the in-app withdrawal first, then uninstall.
The process
Pause sync if you want to stop sending immediately
Inside the app you can pause all file advertising without uninstalling. Nothing further will be sent. Your existing data on the server is unaffected until you complete the withdrawal request. Find the "STOP SYNCING" button in the side-panel of the screen you see when you open the app, when you press the MENU button.
Use the in-app messaging to send a withdrawal request
The app has a direct message channel to the artist. Send a message requesting withdrawal and server purge. You can simply say "Purge me from the server", no explanation required. On the server side, your message appears alongside your device ID. This is the only mechanism that connects a withdrawal request to the right device without requiring you to know or share that ID yourself. The artist will always confirm the purge and respond.
Wait for confirmation
Pending files that have not yet been seen will be purged within 24 hours of the request being confirmed. You will receive a message in-app when it is done. You don't necessarily need to keep the app and wait for this, once you ask for a purge it will happen regardless.
In the back-end, the artist has a button to end a device's participation and mark all files on the server for a device as "rejected", which means they will be deleted next midnight. This includes anything archived; it is all deleted.
Uninstall
Once you have received confirmation, uninstall the app. All files you've ever sent to the server have been destroyed, and uninstalling will destroy your device's ID with the server. If you want to restart participation, you can reinstall and return anonymously under a new device ID; all files you've sent previously will not be sent again.
What you can't undo
If a file was seen before you withdrew, it simply was seen. The file itself has been deleted but the experience of having been seen, for that file, cannot be reversed.
This is part of the project. The How It Works page describes this honestly, and it is worth understanding before you participate rather than after.