Deleting account

tl;dr: if you delete your account, we delete all information we have about you (email, nickname, encrypted password), there is not way you can recover those information.

How it works

The management of users is done with the Devise gem. We overwrote it to be able to give to it a hard delete method.

Because of how the platform is coded, we need the keep the contribution of the each user so s/he can see her/his points (/my_point) and because of that, deleting a user account would delete the points associated with it and make the use of the website moot.

So we decided that users that will delete their account will have their contributions moved to an anonymous account so the user's data is deleted but not her/his contributions.