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Who this policy covers
This Privacy Policy explains how Sọfúnmi, operated by Bryta Apps (“Sọfúnmi”, “we”, “us” or “our”), handles personal information when you use the Sọfúnmi mobile apps, website, support, newsletters and related services. BrytaAfrica is a separate service for African stories; its handling of information is not covered by this policy.
Information we collect
| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| Account and identity | Your name, email address, password credential in protected hashed form, sign-in provider identifiers, account status and authentication records. |
| Learning and preferences | Your target language, base locale, course progress, lesson and review state, saved settings and notification choices. |
| Purchases | Subscription product, entitlement and store transaction references. Apple or Google processes your payment details; we do not receive your full card number. |
| Messages | Contact and support enquiries, your reply address, newsletter consent and related delivery or unsubscribe records. |
| Device and service activity | App version, device and operating-system type, push token, security events, crash and performance information, and limited network information needed to protect and operate the service. |
| Native app product analytics | The iOS and Android apps record allowlisted, non-sensitive product events and masked, sampled screen replays by default. You can turn this off at any time under Privacy and security in Settings. We do not include email addresses, typed answers, lesson audio, learner recordings or advertising identifiers. |
| Optional website analytics | After you allow analytics, Sọfúnmi records a stable page category, campaign source, medium, campaign or content, broad referrer category, language or article identity, and download, store, audio-sample or form outcome. It does not include the form values, email address, contact message, search term, raw URL or learner activity. |
Your private speaking recordings stay on your device and are temporary by default. We do not upload them for transcription, model training or voice donation. Published lesson voices are recordings from approved native tutors and speakers, not learner recordings.
How we use information
- Provide your account, lessons, progress, review and cross-device continuity.
- Authenticate you, protect accounts, prevent abuse and keep the service reliable.
- Manage subscription access and restore purchases.
- Send service messages and learning reminders you have chosen.
- Reply to support, contact, press, partnership and contributor enquiries.
- Send newsletters only when you subscribe, with an unsubscribe option in each email.
- Improve the native product while its Settings preference is enabled, and improve the public website only after you choose to allow website analytics.
- Comply with law, enforce our terms and protect people, rights and the service.
AI-assisted curriculum discovery
With your permission, OpenAI processes messages submitted to Sọfúnmi Guide and natural-language lesson discovery. TypeSafe processes submitted searches for enhanced matching. These services receive request text, relevant conversation context when needed, the selected language and relevant curriculum information. We do not include your account identifiers, contact details or private speaking recordings in these requests. Anything personal you type into a request may be included, so avoid sharing sensitive information.
Guide recommends existing published curriculum. It does not generate instructional voices. Conversations are saved for up to 30 days and can be deleted from Guide. You can turn off AI request processing in the app’s Settings; ordinary search remains available. We record recommendation outcomes, latency and usage to improve discovery without including raw messages in analytics events. Providers also process published curriculum to prepare search representations and recommendations.
When information is shared
We disclose only what is needed to:
- service providers that host and secure the service, deliver email or push notifications, process diagnostics, and provide analytics allowed by your current preference;
- Cloudflare, which hosts the website and checks the contact form for automated abuse;
- Apple, Google and RevenueCat for sign-in, app distribution, subscriptions and entitlement verification;
- authorities or other parties when legally required or necessary to protect rights;
- a successor in a merger, financing, reorganisation or sale, subject to this policy or notice of any materially different handling.
Providers may process information in countries other than yours. We use contracts and other safeguards appropriate to the information and destination. We do not sell personal information or use it for third-party behavioural advertising.
Retention and deletion
We keep account and learning information while your account is active. When you confirm account deletion in the app or at our account deletion page, the service deletes the account and account-owned learning data from the active system and revokes its sessions. Deleting Sọfúnmi does not cancel a subscription managed by Apple or Google; cancel it separately in your store settings.
Contact, support, delivery, security and transaction records are kept only as long as reasonably necessary for their purpose, dispute prevention, legal obligations and security. Where we must retain a limited record, we restrict its use to that reason. De-identified information that can no longer identify you may be retained.
Your choices and rights
- Review or update account information through your account settings.
- Turn learning reminders and optional analytics on or off.
- Unsubscribe from marketing email without affecting essential account messages.
- Request access, correction, deletion or a copy of your information where applicable.
- Withdraw consent for future processing that relies on consent.
Depending on where you live, you may also have rights to object, restrict processing or complain to a data-protection authority. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request.
Optional analytics
Optional website acquisition analytics are off until you choose otherwise. They help us understand public pages, campaign links, QR scans and the route to an app store. Native app product analytics are enabled by default and can be turned off at any time under Privacy and security in the iOS and Android Settings screen. Security and basic reliability processing remain limited to operating and protecting Sọfúnmi.
Children
Sọfúnmi is not directed to children and does not offer child accounts. If you believe a child provided personal information without appropriate permission, contact us so we can investigate and delete it where required.
Security and changes
We use administrative, technical and organisational safeguards designed to protect information. No service can guarantee absolute security. We may update this policy as Sọfúnmi changes; we will post the revised date and provide additional notice when required.
Contact us
For privacy questions or requests, email [email protected] or use our contact form.
