Account deletion
Tables uses your existing Google account, and when you delete your Google account, the following data deletion practices take place:
- Identifiable account information: we have proper support for wiping out any of your account information across the application if your Google account is deleted. Any references to your account will be anonymized.
- Tables/workspaces owned by you: all your tables and workspaces will be deleted. In the future, we’re considering Enterprise controls that would allow the domain to keep the tables and workspaces when an employee account is deleted. To prevent your workspaces and tables being deleted, you can change ownership to another Google user.
- User-generated data in other people’s tables: data that you have entered into tables owned by other users is considered to be owned by the owner of the table. That data will be kept until the owner of the table deletes it or the owner’s account is deleted.
Data deletion
There are different data retention periods for different types of deleted data in Tables:
- When deleting a table's forms, bots, or views, these are deleted immediately with no undo or restoration capabilities.
- When deleting a workspace, table, table row, or a specific value in a row, these changes are kept for a period of time depending on your account tier, to allow you to undo or restore changes in case of mistakes.
- When deleting a table column, these changes are kept for 1 week to allow you to undo or restore changes in case of mistakes. This time frame is consistent regardless of your account tier.
After the retention time period passes, then the data is wiped out permanently from all our servers.