How to delete your Snaplet account

About deleting your Snaplet account

Snaplet is a specialized developer tool designed to capture, transform, and share database snapshots. By allowing engineers to create realistic, anonymized subsets of production data, it streamlines local development and debugging workflows. However, as projects evolve or team requirements change, you may need to offboard from the platform to maintain data hygiene and security.

Users often choose to delete their Snaplet accounts for several reasons specific to the nature of database-as-a-service tools:

• Completing a project migration: Once your development lifecycle has moved away from Snaplet-synced environments, maintaining an active account creates unnecessary exposure.
• Minimizing data footprint: If you are concerned about the persistence of anonymized snapshots, total account deletion is the most effective way to ensure that your data is no longer processed by Snaplet's ingestion engine.
• Simplifying your tech stack: Consolidating your developer tooling often involves purging accounts on services that are no longer integrated into your CI/CD pipelines.

What happens to your data

When you trigger a permanent deletion of your Snaplet account, the service initiates a process to wipe your associated assets. This includes the deletion of your user profile, linked cloud identities, and any project-specific snapshots generated through their CLI or web interface. Snaplet handles sensitive schema metadata and subsets, so termination is critical for maintaining your privacy perimeter.

Data collected and processed by Snaplet includes:

• Database schema definitions: The structure of your production or staging databases.
• Anonymization configuration rules: Custom scripts and patterns used to mask or obfuscate data.
• Snapshot artifacts: The actual subsets of data cached for local development purposes.
• User telemetry: Basic authentication logs and usage metrics tied to your integration tokens.

Please note that while Snaplet purges active data, backups or server-side logs may persist for a short duration in compliance with their internal retention policies or legal requirements.

Privacy considerations

Using Snaplet involves providing access to your database structures, which makes data privacy a top priority. Unlike general-purpose software, Snaplet directly interfaces with your backend infrastructure to extract and transform records. Ensuring that your snapshots are properly sanitized before they are stored on Snaplet's infrastructure is key to maintaining a secure development environment.

• Audit your configuration files: Before deletion, ensure you have scrubbed your local repositories of any Snaplet-specific configuration files that might reveal database structure.
• Revoke API keys: Even after deleting your account, ensure any associated API tokens or CLI keys are revoked within your database providers (e.g., AWS RDS or Supabase).
• Review data sharing: If you have shared snapshots with teammates, clarify how those shared instances are managed after your account deletion.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does deleting my account delete the snapshots stored in my own storage bucket?

No, if you have configured Snaplet to push snapshots to your own S3 bucket or similar storage, you must manually delete those files from your cloud provider account separately.

Can I recover my Snaplet account after deletion?

Account deletion in Snaplet is generally permanent. Once the account and its associated project configurations are purged from their primary database, they cannot be restored.

Will Snaplet keep a copy of my production data after I delete my account?

Snaplet primarily stores anonymized snapshots. Upon deletion, they remove your data from their primary database, though standard cloud service backups may remain until they are automatically rotated out.

Should I revoke my database connection strings before deleting my account?

Yes, it is a best practice to revoke any database credentials you provided to Snaplet to ensure that the connection is severed permanently.

Does deleting my account affect my teammates who collaborate on the same projects?

If you are the owner of a shared project in Snaplet, you should transfer ownership before deleting your account, otherwise, the project may become inaccessible to the rest of your team.