Privacy Policy
Ifẹ̀ is a culture-first community app for Yoruba people everywhere, and everyone is welcome. This policy explains what we collect when you use Ifẹ̀, why, who helps us run it, and the choices you have.
Last updated: 11 October 2026
1. Who we are
Ifẹ̀ is made by Oduaverse Tech Limited, Ibadan, Nigeria ("we", "us"). We are responsible for your personal data in Ifẹ̀. Contact us at support@oduaverse.com.
2. Ifẹ̀ is for adults
You must be 18 or older to use Ifẹ̀. We ask for your date of birth to check this. If we learn that someone under 18 has an account, we close it and delete their data. Read our Child Safety Standards.
3. What we collect
Your account and profile
- Email address and password (stored only as a secure hash), or your Apple or Google sign-in.
- Your Yoruba and English names, date of birth, gender, photos and bio.
- Where you live at city, state and LGA level. We do not collect your precise GPS location.
- Your username and referral code.
What you choose to share for Meet
Meet is optional. If you use it, you may add your relationship intent, religion, family and children preferences, education and work, lifestyle, interests and personality, Yoruba language level and heritage, height and genotype. Some of this, such as religion and genotype, is sensitive personal data; we use it only to suggest compatible people, and only with your consent. You can leave any of it blank or remove it.
Verification
If you choose to get verified, we collect a photo of a government ID and a selfie to confirm you are a real person and match your photos.
What you post and send
- Posts, comments, likes and reposts on Home; Moments (photos and videos); your status.
- Chats: messages, voice notes, photos, videos, documents, stickers and reactions.
- Calls and live audio rooms: connected in real time. We don't record them.
- Reports you make about other members or content.
Games, O-Verse and learning
- Scores, matches, levels and leaderboards; your Odu balance and its history (Odu is in-app only and has no cash value).
- In O-Verse: your character's look, your home and things, jobs, businesses, contacts, friendships and chemistry with friends, and where your character is in the virtual town. O-Verse locations are in the game only; they are not your real location.
- O-Verse whispers go straight to the other person's phone and are not stored on our servers.
- Your progress in Odua Academy and quizzes.
From your device
- Device type, operating system, app version, language and time zone; your IP address and the approximate location it suggests.
- A push notification token, if you allow notifications.
- How you use the app (screens opened, features used, crashes), to fix problems and improve Ifẹ̀.
- Access to your camera, microphone and photos only when you use a feature that needs them, and only if you allow it.
Payments
If you pay for anything in or around Ifẹ̀, the payment is made with Paystack. We receive a confirmation and the amount; we never see or store your card details.
4. How we use it
| What we do | Lawful basis |
|---|---|
| Run your account and the features you use: posts, Moments, chats, calls, rooms, games, O-Verse, Academy, news and films | Our contract with you |
| Suggest people in Meet using your values and preferences | Your consent (you can withdraw it) |
| Verify identities, keep members safe, review reports, stop scams, spam and abuse | Our legitimate interests, and legal obligations |
| Send notifications you've allowed | Your consent |
| Understand how Ifẹ̀ is used, fix bugs and improve it | Our legitimate interests |
| Keep records the law requires | Legal obligation |
We do not sell your personal data, and we do not let advertisers target you using your private information. Promotions shown in Ifẹ̀ are bought by businesses and shown in places like Home and O-Verse; they are not personalised from your messages or Meet answers.
5. What other members see
- Your profile (names, photos, bio, city and anything you add) and your posts and Moments, depending on your settings.
- Meet details only in Meet, as you choose to share them.
- Your character, name and status in O-Verse, to people in the same place.
- Never your email, phone number, date of birth (only your age, where shown), ID documents or exact location.
You can block anyone. Blocking hides you from each other across Ifẹ̀.
6. Who helps us run Ifẹ̀
These service providers process data for us, only to provide their service and under contract:
- Supabase: accounts, database, sign-in, profile photos and real-time features.
- Cloudflare: storage for media (Moments, chat media, verification), content delivery, and the servers for calls, live audio rooms and O-Verse.
- Expo: app updates and push notifications.
- PostHog: app usage analytics and crash reports.
- Paystack: payments, only when you pay.
- Anthropic and Google (Gemini): AI that decides cases in O-Verse's court; the case details you and the other party give are sent to it.
Some features play content from other services inside Ifẹ̀: films and clips from YouTube and music from Audiomack. When you play them, those services receive information such as your IP address and device under their own privacy policies.
We may also share data if the law requires it, to protect someone's safety, or with a buyer if our business is sold (they would be bound by this policy).
7. Where your data is stored
Our providers store and process data on servers outside Nigeria, including in the European Union and the United States. We rely on safeguards permitted by the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, such as our providers' contractual commitments.
8. How long we keep it
- Your account data: while your account is open. When you delete your account, we delete your profile and personal data, except what we must keep for legal or safety reasons (for example, records of serious abuse or banned accounts).
- Chat videos: deleted from our servers once the person you sent them to has received them, and within 7 days at most. Chat documents: within 30 days.
- Moments disappear when they expire, unless you keep them.
- Verification ID photos: deleted once verification is complete, or within 90 days.
- Payment records: as long as tax and accounting law requires.
9. Your choices and rights
- Edit your profile and Meet answers in Settings at any time.
- Turn notifications and device permissions on or off in Settings.
- Delete your account in Settings → Delete account, or at omooduduwa.org/ife/delete-account.html.
Under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 (and other laws that may apply to you, such as the UK or EU GDPR), you can ask us for a copy of your data, to correct or delete it, to restrict or object to how we use it, to send it to you in a common format, or withdraw consent. Email support@oduaverse.com; we reply within 30 days. You can also complain to the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) or your local data protection authority.
10. Security
Data is encrypted in transit (HTTPS) and stored encrypted by our providers. Our database limits each member to their own data, and only authorised staff can access member data, for support and safety. Messages are not end-to-end encrypted: they are protected on our servers, and our safety team may review content that is reported to us. No system is perfectly secure, and we will tell you and the authorities about a serious breach as the law requires.
11. Changes
We may update this policy as Ifẹ̀ changes. We'll update the date above and tell you in the app about important changes.
12. Contact
Oduaverse Tech Limited · Ibadan, Nigeria