> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.ashenmarch.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Your Account

> The Herald, notifications, Strava, membership, privacy, and account deletion.

## The Herald

Your **Herald's Dispatch** is a running feed of what's happened across your realm — land you've **claimed** or **fortified**, **milestones** earned, **walls** that held, **sieges**, **rank** advancements, and **court** or **Kingdom Region** changes. It reports **outcomes**, not every march: a campaign that didn't claim or change anything won't add an entry, and after a quiet stretch the Herald simply reports that **your kingdom stands firm**.

**Notifications:** if you allow them, the app can alert you to urgent moments while you're away — your land coming **under siege**, a territory **lost or won**, or a **rank advancement**. You're in control: manage or silence these from your device's notification settings (on iOS, *Settings → Notifications → Ashenmarch*; on Android, the app's notification settings). The Herald's Dispatch feed is always there in the app whether or not notifications are on.

<Tip>
  Leave siege alerts on even if you silence everything else — a siege answered the same day is usually held ([defending](/en/war#defending)), and a besieged holding pays no tribute until you break it.
</Tip>

## Strava

Strava is a **data connection**, not a sign-in. You log in with Apple, Google, or email; connecting Strava just lets your activities import (automatically via webhook, or manually from the Strava page). You can disconnect any time.

## Membership

Every new player gets a **30-day free trial** with full access — claim land, build your house, raise your rank, join a court, all of it. After the trial, you continue with a **membership**.

**Cost:** **$7.99/month** or **$59.99/year** (the yearly plan is the better value). You purchase and manage it through the App Store or Google Play, and you can cancel any time from your store account.

**If your membership lapses:** you never lose your account, your rank history, or your total-ever-claimed milestones — those are permanent. While a membership is lapsed your current territory weakens faster and eventually returns to the map as unclaimed land, but resubscribing lets you reclaim and rebuild it.

## Privacy

The realm reveals **numbers, never places or times.** Others can see your **house name, coat of arms, rank, and the territories your house holds on the map**, plus public aggregates like your total ground held and your honours. They **cannot** see your home or most-visited spots, your exact route paths, when you tend to march, your real name or email, or your exact coffers. Your individual march details — route, distance, times — are yours alone.

## Deleting your account

You can delete it in the portal. Your account is deactivated immediately and fully removed after a short recovery window (you can sign back in within that window to restore it). You may also request a copy of your data by emailing [support@ashenmarch.com](mailto:support@ashenmarch.com).

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