Ezysphere · Legal

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Ezysphere Limited ("Ezysphere", "we", "us", "our") handles personal information when you visit our website, download or use one of our applications, or contact us. It is written to be read in plain English, and it is the policy we hold ourselves to.

The short version

We collect as little as we can get away with. Most of our apps work without an account, and several work entirely offline. We do not sell your personal information, and we never have. Where an app needs something sensitive to do its job - a floor-plan photo, a body photograph, an application document - we say so explicitly in that app's privacy supplement, we process it for that purpose only, and we tell you exactly how long we keep it. You can ask us to delete everything at any time.

1. Who we are

Ezysphere Limited is a software studio incorporated in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, registration number RC 9229333, with its registered office at Enugu, Nigeria.

For all personal information described in this Policy, Ezysphere Limited is the data controller (the entity that decides why and how your information is processed), except where a third-party platform acts as an independent controller in its own right - see section 9.

Our contact point for all privacy matters, including requests to exercise your rights, is apps@ezysphere.com. We have not appointed a Data Protection Officer, as we are not required to do so; privacy requests are handled directly by the people who build and maintain the products.

2. Scope of this Policy

This Policy applies to:

App-specific supplements

Individual Apps do different things with different data, so several have their own privacy supplement that adds detail on top of this Policy. A supplement never gives you fewer rights than this Policy does; it only describes that App's processing more precisely. Where a supplement and this Policy genuinely conflict, the supplement prevails for that App only. Where an App has no supplement, this Policy applies in full and on its own.

Every supplement is listed on our legal index.

3. Information we collect

3.1 Information you give us

CategoryExamplesWhen
Account informationEmail address, a password stored only as a salted hash by our authentication provider, display nameOnly if you choose to create an account. Most Apps work signed out.
Profile and preference informationCountry, currency, units, degree level or field of study, notification settings, themeWhen you set them up in an App
Content you create or uploadSaved estimates, calculations, bookmarks, checklists, watch terms, photographs, documents, files you transferWhen you use the relevant feature
CorrespondenceYour name, email address and the message you send us through a form or by emailWhen you contact us or submit a deletion request
Payment contextAmount, currency, payment reference, status and the points or subscription it relates toWhen you buy something. We never receive or store your card number, CVV or bank credentials.

3.2 Information collected automatically

CategoryExamplesNotes
Device and technical dataDevice model, operating system version, App version, language, coarse region, crash and error diagnosticsUsed to keep the App working on real devices and to fix faults
Advertising identifiersGoogle Advertising ID, or the iOS Identifier for Advertisers where you have permitted itOnly in Apps that show ads - see section 7
Usage eventsWhich feature was opened, points earned or spent, streaks, sync timestampsHeld against your account or device so the feature works and balances reconcile
Server logsIP address, timestamp, endpoint requested, response status, user agentGenerated by our hosting and backend providers for security, abuse prevention and rate limiting

Ezysphere does not run a general-purpose analytics or advertising tracker on the ezysphere.com website. The website sets no cookies of its own - see section 8.

3.3 Information from third parties

3.4 Information we deliberately do not collect

4. Sensitive information

Some Apps necessarily handle material that is personal in nature. We call this out rather than burying it:

We do not ask for, and ask that you do not send us, information revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic data, health data, or data concerning sex life or sexual orientation. If you send such information to us unprompted - for example in a free-text support message - we will process it only to answer you and will delete it when the matter is closed.

5. How and why we use your information

What we will not do with it

We do not sell personal information. We do not rent, trade or otherwise disclose it for another organisation's own marketing. We do not use the content you create in an App - your photographs, documents, files or estimates - to train machine-learning models. We do not build advertising profiles about you from the content of what you upload.

6. Legal bases for processing

Where the EU or UK General Data Protection Regulation applies to you, we rely on the following legal bases. Similar reasoning applies under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023.

PurposeLegal basis
Providing the App and its features; operating your account; taking paymentPerformance of a contract with you (GDPR Art. 6(1)(b))
Processing a body photograph in Snap Pattern; enabling optional cloud backup of documents in Assist Scholar; sending optional marketing; personalised advertising; non-essential device identifiersYour consent (Art. 6(1)(a)), which you may withdraw at any time
Security, fraud and abuse prevention; diagnostics and reliability; product improvement using aggregated data; defending legal claimsOur legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f)) in running a secure, working, sustainable service - balanced against your rights, and never where those rights override our interest
Keeping transaction and tax records; responding to lawful requests from authoritiesLegal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c))

Where we rely on consent, refusing or withdrawing it costs you nothing except the feature that depends on it, and withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before you withdrew.

7. Advertising and analytics

Some Apps - currently Build Estimate, AI Trivia and Grid Shooter - show advertising supplied by Google AdMob, including rewarded ads you can choose to watch in exchange for points. Assist Scholar and Snap Pattern carry no advertising.

We do not operate a third-party analytics SDK for behavioural advertising purposes. Where we use crash reporting or basic usage counters, they exist to keep the App working, not to profile you.

8. Cookies and similar technologies

The ezysphere.com website sets no cookies of its own. It stores nothing in your browser for tracking, and it runs no advertising or analytics scripts. Pages load two third-party static resources - the Google Fonts service and the Cloudflare-hosted cdnjs library used for icons - and submitting a form on the site sends your message to Web3Forms, our form-delivery provider. Those providers necessarily see your IP address and browser user agent as part of serving the request. They are listed in section 9.

Inside the Apps, we use ordinary local storage on your device (for example a preferences file or a local database) to hold your settings and your offline data. That is storage on your own device, not tracking, and it is removed when you uninstall the App.

9. Who we share information with

We share personal information only with the service providers that make the products work, and only to the extent each one needs. Each is bound by a contract or by its own terms to process the data for our purposes, keep it secure, and not use it for its own unrelated ends.

ProviderWhat it does for usWhere
SupabaseAuthentication and database for account-based AppsEU / US regions
Google FirebaseAuthentication, database, push notifications and crash reporting for Apps that use itGlobal (Google Cloud)
Google AdMobServing and measuring advertising in Apps that carry adsGlobal (Google)
FlutterwaveCard and bank payment processing (international)Nigeria / global
PaystackCard and bank payment processing (Nigeria, naira)Nigeria / global
RenderHosting for the Snap Pattern measurement engineUS / EU regions
Google Cloud RunHosting for the Assist Scholar watcher serviceGlobal (Google Cloud)
VercelHosting and content delivery for ezysphere.comGlobal edge network
Web3FormsDelivering website form submissions to our inboxEU / US
Google Fonts, Cloudflare (cdnjs)Serving fonts and icon files to the websiteGlobal edge networks
Google Play, Apple App Store, Microsoft StoreDistributing the Apps and processing store purchases and subscriptionsGlobal
RevenueCatManaging subscription entitlements and receipts where an App offers subscriptionsUS

We may also disclose personal information:

This list reflects the providers in use at the date of this Policy. If we add a provider that materially changes how your information is handled, we will update this table and, where required, notify you.

10. International transfers

We are based in Nigeria and our providers operate globally, so your information may be processed outside the country where you live, including in the United States and the European Union.

Where personal information protected by EU or UK data protection law is transferred outside the EEA or the UK, we rely on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses (with the UK International Data Transfer Addendum where applicable), on an adequacy decision, or on another lawful transfer mechanism, together with the technical measures described in section 12. Where the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 applies, we transfer personal data only on a basis permitted by section 41 of that Act.

You may request a copy of the relevant transfer safeguards by writing to apps@ezysphere.com.

11. How long we keep information

We keep personal information only as long as we need it for the purpose we collected it for, or as long as the law requires - whichever is longer. In practice:

InformationRetention
Account and profile dataFor as long as your account is active, then deleted within 30 days of a verified deletion request
Content you create in an App (estimates, bookmarks, checklists, measurements, patterns)Until you delete it, or until your account is deleted
Images sent for processing (floor plans, body photographs)Held only for the life of the request and discarded when the result is returned. Not stored.
Points ledger entriesFor as long as the account exists, so balances can be reconciled and disputes answered; deleted with the account
Payment and transaction recordsUp to 7 years from the transaction, to meet tax, accounting and anti-money-laundering obligations, then deleted
Support correspondenceUp to 24 months after the matter is closed
Server and security logsTypically 30 to 90 days, depending on the provider, unless retained longer for an active security investigation
Aggregated or de-identified statistics that cannot be linked back to youMay be retained indefinitely
Records of a deletion request itselfRetained as proof that we honoured the request, minimised to the request, its date and its outcome

Backups are overwritten on a rolling cycle. Where data has been deleted from live systems but still exists in a backup, it is isolated from further active use and is removed when that backup expires.

12. How we protect information

An honest limit

No method of transmission over the internet and no method of electronic storage is completely secure. We use appropriate technical and organisational measures, but we cannot and do not guarantee absolute security. You are responsible for keeping your own account credentials and your own device secure, and for the security of any file you choose to share out of an App.

13. Your rights

Wherever you live, and regardless of whether a particular statute applies to you, we will honour the following requests about your own personal information:

How to exercise them

Use our data request page, or email apps@ezysphere.com stating which App and which right. We will:

An authorised agent may make a request on your behalf where the applicable law allows it, provided they supply proof of authorisation.

14. Region-specific rights

14.1 Nigeria

We process personal data in accordance with the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 and the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation. You have the rights set out in section 13 above, and the right to lodge a complaint with the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC).

14.2 European Economic Area, United Kingdom and Switzerland

You have the rights described in section 13 as they are set out in Articles 15 to 22 of the GDPR and the UK GDPR. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your national supervisory authority - in the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office - although we would appreciate the chance to resolve the matter first.

We have not appointed an EU or UK representative under Article 27, as our processing does not meet the threshold that requires one. If that changes, we will name a representative here.

14.3 California

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the CPRA, California residents have the right to know, delete and correct personal information, to opt out of its sale or sharing, to limit the use of sensitive personal information, and not to be discriminated against for exercising those rights.

14.4 Other United States states

If you live in a state with a comprehensive consumer privacy law - including Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon and Montana - you have rights to access, correct, delete and obtain a copy of your personal data, and to opt out of targeted advertising, sale and certain profiling. We do not sell personal data or engage in profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects. You may appeal a refusal of a request by replying to our decision; we will respond to an appeal within the period your state's law allows.

15. Children and young people

Our Apps are not directed to children, and the minimum age to use them is set out in our Terms of Service. In summary:

We do not knowingly collect personal information from a child below the applicable minimum age. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact apps@ezysphere.com and we will delete it and close the account promptly.

16. Automated decisions and profiling

We do not make decisions producing legal effects concerning you, or similarly significantly affecting you, based solely on automated processing.

Some Apps compute things automatically - a match score against your stated study preferences, a bill of quantities from a floor plan, a set of measurements from a photograph. These are informational outputs that you review and act on yourself. They are estimates, they can be wrong, and nothing about you is decided by them. Automated checks are also used to detect fraud and abuse; if such a check restricts your account, you can ask a person to review it by emailing us.

17. Security incidents

If a personal data breach occurs that is likely to result in a risk to your rights and freedoms, we will notify the relevant supervisory authority - including the NDPC where Nigerian law applies - within the period required by law, generally 72 hours of becoming aware of it. Where the breach is likely to result in a high risk to you, we will notify you directly and without undue delay, describing what happened, what it means for you, and what we are doing about it.

18. Third-party sites and services

Our website and Apps link out to third-party destinations - app stores, payment pages, and in Assist Scholar the official websites of scholarship providers. We do not control those destinations and are not responsible for their content or their privacy practices. Once you leave our website or App, this Policy no longer applies. Read the policy of any site you land on.

19. Store privacy disclosures

The Data Safety section on Google Play and the Privacy Nutrition Labels on the Apple App Store summarise each App's data practices in the format those stores require. Those summaries are prepared from this Policy and the relevant App supplement. Where a store summary is necessarily compressed, this Policy and the App's supplement are the authoritative statement of what we do.

20. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Policy as our products and the law change. When we do:

Continuing to use the website or an App after a non-material change takes effect means the updated Policy applies to you. Previous versions are available on request.

21. Complaints

If you are unhappy with how we have handled your personal information or a request, write to apps@ezysphere.com with "Privacy complaint" in the subject line. We will investigate and reply within 30 days. If you remain unsatisfied you may complain to the Nigeria Data Protection Commission, to your national supervisory authority in the EEA, to the Information Commissioner's Office in the UK, or to your state Attorney General in the United States. Nothing in this Policy limits your right to do so.

22. How to contact us

Ezysphere Limited
Registered in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, RC 9229333
Enugu, Nigeria
Email: apps@ezysphere.com
Web: ezysphere.com