Privacy Policy

Our data promise

• Your work belongs to you and your organisation, not to us.
• We never sell your personal data, and we don’t show you ads.
• Admins run their workspace, but they can never read your private chats.
• Ama, our AI assistant, only reads something when you ask her to, and only what you can already see.
• You can delete your account yourself, and we then remove your data.
• We tell you plainly what we keep, why, and for how long.
• During the beta, crash reports tell us what broke, never what you wrote.

1. Who we are

Econect is a work app for organisations, teams, schools and professionals, owned and run by Ama Verse Limited, Kyambogo, Nakawa Division, Kampala, Uganda (P.O. Box 222438, Kampala). When this policy says “we”, it means Ama Verse Limited, which decides how your personal data is used in Econect and is responsible for it. For the work you do inside a workspace, your organisation decides how that workspace is used; we look after the data on its behalf.

2. What we collect

Your account: email address, full name, date of birth, Eco-Address, and if you add them, a display name, photo, cover and short bio. We record which version of our terms and this policy you accepted, and when.

What you create: messages in chats and rooms, tasks, hand-ins, reviews and grades, notices, polls, events, notes, files, mail between Eco-Addresses, and your comments and reactions.

How you use Econect: when you open a notice (so its author and the room’s leaders can see who has seen it), when you read a chat (read receipts), who joined a workspace and how, and records of admin actions (see section 6).

Calls: who called whom, when and for how long. We do not record calls.

Your phone: a notification token so we can send you alerts, your time zone, and the app version and type of phone, so we can fix problems.

Crash reports: when something breaks, the app sends us the error, the screen it happened on, the app version and the type of phone, linked to your account. They never include your messages, files or anything you wrote, and they are deleted after 30 days.

We do not collect your location, your contacts or your phone number.

3. Why we use it

To run your account and keep it secure; to deliver messages, files, calls and notifications; to let people find you by your Eco-Address; to let your organisation organise its work (rooms, roles, tasks and reviews); to prevent abuse and keep Econect safe; and to understand problems and improve the app. We rely on our agreement with you to provide the service, on your consent where we ask for it, and on our legitimate interest in keeping Econect secure.

4. Who can see what

People in your workspace see your name, photo and Eco-Address, and what you post in the rooms you share. Private rooms are seen only by their members.

Private chats (DMs) are seen only by the two of you. Workspace owners and admins cannot read them.

Hand-ins are seen by you, the people you work with on that task, and its reviewers. Grades are written only by the reviewer.

“Seen by” on a notice is visible only to its author and the room’s leaders and admins.

The Econect team only looks at your data when you ask for help, to verify an organisation that asked for it, or to deal with abuse or a legal request.

5. Ama, our AI assistant

Your daily brief and “Around your workspaces” are written by the app itself, without AI. When you ask Ama for something (a task summary, a checklist, help with a review, or a chat with her), the text needed for that request is sent to our AI provider, Anthropic, to write the answer. Ama only sees what you can already see. Under its commercial terms, Anthropic does not use what Econect sends it to train its models. When you ask Ama about something current, she may search the web through Anthropic to answer, and shows you the sources. When Ama reads your day aloud with her natural voice, the text is sent to our voice provider, Deepgram, to make the audio; otherwise your phone’s own voice is used. AI use is counted against your plan’s allowance.

6. Admins and the audit log

Workspace owners and admins can manage members, roles, rooms and join links. Sensitive admin actions (changing roles, removing people, changing settings, verification) are written to an audit log that owners and admins can read. Nobody can edit it, and each entry is removed automatically after 30 days. Admins cannot read private chats, see your password, or change your account details.

7. Service providers

We use trusted providers to run Econect, under agreements that limit them to doing that work: Supabase (database, file storage and sign-in), Anthropic (Ama’s AI), Deepgram (Ama’s natural voice), Agora (calls and meetings), Expo, Apple and Google (push notifications), Brevo (sign-up codes and emails), and Cloudflare (the check that keeps bots from signing in). Payments, by mobile money or card, are handled by Flutterwave. Card details are encrypted as soon as they reach us and passed straight on to Flutterwave; we never store your card number, card PIN or mobile-money PIN. These providers store and process data outside Uganda, for example in the European Union and the United States. We only use providers that protect personal data to a standard comparable to Ugandan law.

8. How long we keep it

Files in private chats are kept on our servers for 8 days and files in workspace rooms for 14 days, then removed; a copy you already saved on your phone stays there. “View once” files last at most 8 days. Messages, tasks, notices and other work stay while the workspace exists, unless they are deleted. If you delete your account, it is permanently removed 14 days later (signing in before then cancels the deletion). Your profile, private chats and personal data are deleted; work you shared in a workspace (room messages, tasks, notices and hand-ins) stays there for the other members, without your name. Audit log entries and crash reports are kept for 30 days and notifications for 60 days, then deleted automatically. Backups of our database are overwritten within 7 days.

9. Your rights

You can see and correct your profile at any time, and delete your account in Settings › Account & security. You can ask us for a copy of your data (Profile › Account & security › Ask for a copy of your data), to correct or delete it, or to stop using it for a purpose; we reply within 30 days. You can turn off notifications for any workspace or kind of update, and set quiet hours for the whole app. If you’re not happy with how we handle your data, contact us first. You can also complain to Uganda’s Personal Data Protection Office.

10. Children and students

You must be at least 13 to create an account; we ask your date of birth to check this. Schools and universities that invite students under 18 are responsible for having the consent of a parent or guardian where the law requires it.

11. How we protect your data

Data travels over encrypted connections. Passwords are stored only in hashed form. Every table in our database has access rules, so people can only reach what their role allows, and those rules are tested before each release. Private files are stored privately and opened through links that expire. Secret keys for our providers stay on our servers, never in the app. You can sign out your other devices at any time.

12. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy in a way that matters, we’ll tell you in the app before it takes effect, and ask you to accept it again where the law requires.

13. Contact

Privacy questions or requests? Write to econectapp@gmail.com and we’ll reply within 30 days. Formal notices to the company: amaverse.ltd@gmail.com.