- You are signed in to Daviah, either with an email and password or through a connected login provider.
- If you are the only administrator of any organisation, you must first add a second administrator to each of those organisations before you can close your account.
Step by step
- Open your account menu
In the top-right corner of the Daviah office, click the button showing your initials. A dropdown menu opens showing your name, your email address, and three options: Your account, Close my account, and Log out.
- Go to the Close my account page
Click Close my account in the dropdown. Daviah takes you to the account-closure page, which opens inside the full office with the normal navigation and header in place.
- Wait for the page to load your details
Daviah checks that you are signed in and retrieves your account record. At the same time it looks up which organisations you belong to, whether you are the sole administrator of any of them, and whether you appear on any member roll. These results decide what the page shows you.
- Read the summary of what will happen
The page shows a Close my account heading and a warning that the action cannot be undone. Below that, a What happens section lists the consequences: you will be signed out everywhere and your credentials will stop working; you will leave any organisations listed; records you have authored will remain but without your name attached; if you are on a member roll, that roll entry stays but its link to your sign-in is cut.
- Check whether a sole-admin block appears
If you are the only administrator of one or more organisations, the form is not shown. Instead you see a notice naming those organisations and telling you to add another administrator to each one first. Return to each organisation, add a second administrator, then come back to this page.
- Type your email address to confirm
If no organisations are blocked, a confirmation form appears. Type the email address shown in the label exactly as it appears, then click the Close my account button. The button is disabled and shows Closing while your request is being processed.
- Daviah verifies your identity
When you submit, Daviah reads your identity from your session — it never uses anything you typed for this purpose. It then checks that the email address you typed matches the one on your account. If it does not match, an error appears inline telling you that the address is not the one this account is under, and you can try again.
- Daviah runs a final check and deletes your account
Daviah checks once more that you are not the sole administrator of any organisation, as a safeguard even if the request came from outside the form. Provided no organisations would be left without an administrator, your user record is permanently deleted. All your sessions, organisation memberships, and preferences are removed with it. Records you authored remain but the link to your account is cleared.
- Get redirected to the sign-in page
Once deletion is confirmed, Daviah sends your browser to the logout route, which clears your session cookie and takes you to the sign-in page. Your account no longer exists and you are fully signed out.
What happens next
Your user record is gone for good and cannot be restored. Every active session you had is ended, every organisation membership is removed, and your saved preferences are deleted. You will not be able to sign in again with the same credentials, and any connected login provider will no longer grant access.
Every record you created — minutes, attendance entries, payments, media files, audit events — remains exactly where it was. The records simply no longer show your name. Any member-roll entries belonging to an organisation are also kept; they just lose their connection to the sign-in account that has been deleted.
Good to know
The sole-administrator check runs twice: once when the page loads to decide whether to show the form, and again on the server when you submit. This means that even if something changes between those two moments, no organisation can be left without an administrator as a result of your account being closed.
You do not need to be a member of any organisation to access this page. Anyone with a valid sign-in — including people who joined Daviah but never joined an organisation — can close their account from the same screen.
Daviah — Permanently delete your Daviah sign-in account, removing your credentials and memberships while leaving all authored records intact.