Cancellation Policy
Last updated: March 1, 2021
We want satisfied customers, not hostages. That’s why we make it easy for you to cancel your account directly — no phone calls required, no questions asked.
Account owners can follow these instructions to cancel in-app:
- Navigate to "Account / Billing" from the Profile menu (top-right corner of the app) and select "Cancel Subscription".
Our legal responsibility is to account owners, which means we cannot cancel an account at the request of anyone else. If for whatever reason you no longer know who the account owner is, contact us. We will gladly reach out to any current account owners at the email addresses we have on file.
What happens when you cancel?
You will still be able to access your account. You will not be able to add, edit, or delete anything in the account. It is essentially "frozen in time". All notifications and alerts will also be frozen.
We’ll permanently delete your account data within 90 days from our servers and logs, and within 120 days from our backups. Retrieving data for a single account from a backup isn’t possible, so if you change your mind you’ll need to do it within the first 90 days. Data cannot be recovered once it has been permanently deleted.
We won’t bill you again once you cancel. We don’t automatically prorate any unused time you may have left but if you haven’t used your account in months or just started a new billing cycle, contact us for a fair refund. We’ll treat you right.
Ready Five-initiated cancellations
We may cancel accounts if they have been inactive for an extended period:
- For trial accounts: 90 days after a trial has expired without being upgraded
- For frozen accounts: 180 days after being frozen due to billing failures
We also retain the right to suspend or terminate accounts for any reason at any time, as outlined in our Terms of Service. In practice, this generally means we will cancel your account without notice if we have evidence that you are using our products to engage in abusive behavior.
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