The thirty days after you ask to be forgotten

European data law gives you a genuinely powerful right: you can demand that a company erase the personal data it holds on you, and it has roughly one month to comply. The catch is that the right is only as strong as your willingness to follow up. People fire off a deletion request, feel a small sense of victory, and never check whether anything happened. The company is quietly counting on exactly that. Vanish now closes the loop.

A request is the start of a clock, not the end of a task

When you generate an erasure or access request in Vanish, you can mark it as sent and the tool starts the response deadline running — about a month for European requests, longer for some others. It's framed as a reminder, not legal advice, but the point stands: the obligation has a deadline, and you should know when it passes. Instead of a request disappearing into your sent folder, it becomes a tracked item with a countdown you can actually see.

When the deadline passes, you have a move

Most people don't know that ignoring a valid erasure request isn't the end of the story — every country has a data-protection authority whose job is to hear exactly this complaint. The problem is that nobody knows which one is theirs or what to say. So when a tracked request goes overdue, Vanish names your country's authority and drafts the complaint for you: it cites the date you originally asked, the right you invoked, and the fact that the deadline lapsed. You go from "they ignored me, oh well" to a filed, specific escalation in a couple of clicks.

The right to be forgotten isn't the request. It's the follow-up nobody has the patience for. We made the patience automatic.

Quietly, on your device, like everything else

All of this runs locally. The deadlines are computed on your device, the complaint is generated on your device, and sending stays in your own email client — Vanish never sees your correspondence and has no record of who you've written to. It's the same principle as the rest of the tool: give you a real lever over your own data without becoming one more place your data sits. The strongest version of a privacy right is the one you can actually exercise to the end.