Settings
Personalize your app experience, manage your privacy, and submit feedback through the Settings options. Click on the gear icon (⚙) in the upper right-hand corner of the app to access Settings.
Set Preferences
The options under Settings let you personalize the app and save your preferences.
Contact Us takes you to links to seek help, share your ideas, leave a review, and get in touch with the team behind the app. Other options let you set preferences like accessibility needs and the language used in the app.
My App Privacy Settings
Privacy settings allow you control the amount and type of personal information that the Illinois app can collect and process.
Some services in the Illinois app require you to provide more personal information than others. You can enable or disable services that collect different levels of personal information in Manage and Understand Your Privacy. (For additional information about personal information processed by the Illinois app, see the Illinois App Privacy Notice.)
Your personal information may be retained in the Illinois app and on its data servers until you request its deletion. To expunge your stored information, use the Delete My Account option.
View Privacy Settings
Tap Manage and Understand Your Privacy to change your privacy level.
Level 1 = View
You are anonymous.
You can view most features but cannot use all of them. Your data are not shared or stored.
2 = Location Sharing
You share your location.
Wi-Fi location services deliver information like nearby bus stops or the distance to a dining location. Your location data are shared but not stored.
3 = Personalizations
You can customize the app.
You can save preferences, mark favorite sports teams, or choose dining locations to highlight.
4 = Notifications
You agree to receive information.
You can sign in with your NetID. You will receive notifications about events or appointments, you can access your Illini ID, and you can use your bus pass.
5 = Sharing
You can access all features and can share your information with others.
You can create group posts.
Delete My Account
Depending upon the privacy level you select, the Illinois app may collect, store, and use your personal information. This information is stored both on your phone and on external servers. Some of your personal information may be stored indefinitely until you request for it to be deleted.
Use Delete My Account to Purge Your Data
- Go to Settings > My App Privacy Settings.
- Tap Delete My Account.
- Tap Forget My Information.
Your data will be deleted from the app and its servers.
What Will Be Deleted?
All personal information collected by the app will be deleted permanently from the Illinois app and its servers, including any personal identifiers, credentials, avatar photos, and user preferences along with interests and favorites.
By checking “Please delete all my contributions” you will also remove any content you contributed to groups, such as posts, replies, reactions, and events.
Retention Policy
Some statistical information that does not identify you will be retained indefinitely, such as app usage data, frequency of access, duration, and time of access.
Your contributions to documents shared by others such as event surveys and polls will not be deleted.
Technical Details
The following data types are purged through Delete My Account.
Core Building Block
- account – ID, app org ID, roles, auth types, username, external IDs (NetID, UIN), preferences (tags, interests, favorites, privacy level etc.), last login info, devices
- profile – first and last names, email, phone, birth year, address, zip code, state, country
- credentials (we store user credentials if the user signs in with email and/or phone) – auth type, hashed password, verification and reset codes, verification and reset expiration dates
- login sessions – access token, refresh tokens, identifier, app ID, org ID, auth type, app type identifier, ip address, device ID
Groups Building Block
- user – ID, name, email, external ID (UIN), net ID, client ID (application ID)
- memberships – group ID, user ID, external ID, net ID, client ID, name, email, photo url, status (member, admin, or pending), answers
- posts/replies – group ID, client ID, parent (post) ID, subject, body, is private, image url, reactions, member (creator), and members (recipients of post)
For additional information about data collection and retention policies in the Illinois app, see the Illinois App Privacy Notice.
