How to remove my number and account from Getcontact?

Instructions for deleting a phone number, tags and other data from the Getcontact application.

If you remove the Getcontact application from your phone, the user data will still remain in the service database. We tell you how to completely remove your data and number from the Getcontact database.

Removing tags and numbers from Getcontact via the app

If the Getcontact application has become unnecessary for some reason, do not rush to remove it. Before that, you must delete the account, otherwise it will remain in the application database. To remove your sensitive data from Getcontact, you must:

1. Open application.
2. Go to the “Other” section.
3. In the “General” section, select “Settings”.
4. Next, click on the “Account Settings” line.
5. Select “Account Management”.
6. Click “Block”.

After that, the application will ask you to indicate the reason – why the user wanted to delete the account. You can select any from the list or click on the “Other” line if none of the reasons fit. Next, you need to confirm the lock, and all data will be deleted.

Important ! If the user logs in to the account again in the Getcontact application, his account will again become available to another user. Until then, other people will not be able to find the user’s phone number in this application, as his account will be blocked.

How to delete a Getcontact account through the website?

You can also remove your phone number and information about yourself from the Getcontact database using their official website. To do this, on a computer, you need to go to any page of the site, and then, scrolling to the very bottom, select the “Profile privacy management” section. After that, the site will offer to make a quick login in three ways:

1. Quick login via whatsapp.
2. Quick login via Telegram.
3. Quick login via SMS.

You can choose any of the three methods and follow the instructions. For example, to log in to Getcontact via WhatsApp, you need to select your phone’s OS, scan a QR code, and then send an auto-typed message in the chat that opens.

After the login is completed, a page with information about the user will open. At the bottom there will be an item “Visibility settings”, which you need to select. A list of benefits that the user will lose if they delete the account will open, as well as a slider that turns off account visibility. It is enabled by default, so it must be disabled.

Number deactivation can take up to three hours, as stated on the site itself. After that, the user account will become inaccessible to other people who will use the application or search for the user number.

Important ! Disabling account visibility through the website and deleting the account through the app are not two mutually exclusive ways. If the user has turned off visibility on the site, then he needs to manually delete the account in the application. This will not be done automatically. If the account is deleted in the application, you must disable its visibility on the site.

Results

You need to remove your data and phone number from the Getcontact system in two stages: first through the application (delete your account), and then through the official website of the service (turn off data visibility). At the same time, the phone numbers that are in the user’s contact list and to which he allowed access during registration will remain in the database. The service does not provide the ability to completely remove them.