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

# Personal Settings: Timezone, Privacy, and Data Controls

> Manage your timezone, toggle presence and history tracking, export a copy of your data, or permanently delete it — all from one place.

Your personal settings control how Percy stores and uses information about you. From here you can set a timezone so that reminders and time displays always reflect your local time, choose whether Percy tracks your presence and name history, and exercise your full data rights — including exporting or permanently deleting everything Percy holds about you.

## Viewing Your Settings

Run `/settings` (or `/settings show`) to open your settings card. It shows your current timezone, the state of each tracking toggle, and buttons to manage them all in one place.

## Timezone

Percy uses your timezone to interpret relative times in reminders (`tomorrow at 9am`, `next friday`) and to display local times across all servers where Percy is active.

### Commands

| Command                              | Description                                                                         |
| ------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `/settings timezone set <timezone>`  | Set your timezone                                                                   |
| `/settings timezone show`            | See your current timezone and your local time right now                             |
| `/settings timezone info <timezone>` | Look up the current time, UTC offset, DST status, and clock format for any timezone |
| `/settings timezone reset`           | Clear your saved timezone (reverts to UTC)                                          |

### Examples

```
/settings timezone set Europe/Berlin
/settings timezone set America/New_York
/settings timezone set Asia/Tokyo
```

You can also type common names like `Eastern Time`, `Pacific Time`, or abbreviations like `EST` and `PST` — Percy will resolve them automatically.

<Tip>
  Run `/settings timezone info Europe/Berlin` before setting a timezone to confirm the UTC offset and whether daylight saving time is currently active.
</Tip>

## Privacy & Tracking

Percy can optionally record your presence activity and track changes to your name, nickname, and avatar. Both features are **on by default** and can be toggled off at any time. Stored history is automatically deleted after **30 days**.

<Accordion title="Presence Tracking">
  When enabled, Percy logs when you come online and go offline. This data powers presence-related features across servers.

  Toggle it off from your `/settings` card, or run `/settings show` and click the **Presence Tracking** button.
</Accordion>

<Accordion title="Name & Avatar History">
  When enabled, Percy keeps a record of your past usernames, nicknames, and avatars. Toggle it off to stop new entries from being stored.

  Toggle it off from your `/settings` card, or run `/settings show` and click the **Name & Avatar History** button.
</Accordion>

<Note>
  Disabling a tracking toggle stops **new** data from being collected. It does not remove data already stored. Use `/settings remove-personal-data` to erase existing history.
</Note>

## Data Rights

Percy gives you full control over the data it holds about you, in line with GDPR principles.

### Export your data

```
/settings request-data
```

Percy compiles everything it has stored about you — settings, reminders, presence and name history, economy stats, tags, highlights, and more — into a JSON file and sends it to your DMs.

<Note>
  Make sure your DMs are open from server members before running this command, otherwise Percy can't deliver the file.
</Note>

### Delete your personal data

```
/settings remove-personal-data
```

Permanently erases your stored presence history, name/nickname history, and avatar history. Percy will ask you to confirm before anything is deleted.

<Warning>
  Data deletion is **irreversible**. Once removed, Percy cannot recover your presence or name/avatar history.
</Warning>

### What Percy stores

| Data type                               | Retention            | Notes                           |
| --------------------------------------- | -------------------- | ------------------------------- |
| Discord user ID                         | Indefinitely         | Required for core functionality |
| Timezone preference                     | Until you reset it   | Used only to localise times     |
| Presence history                        | Up to 30 days        | Auto-purged; opt-out available  |
| Name & avatar history                   | Up to 30 days        | Auto-purged; opt-out available  |
| Command content (reminders, tags, etc.) | Until deleted by you | Managed via their own commands  |