Data Retention

How long we keep your personal data and the reasons for our retention periods.

We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, or as required by law:

Data Category Retention Period Reason
Account Data (name, email, phone, username) Until you request account deletion Required for ongoing service delivery
Transaction Records As required by Nigerian financial regulations (minimum 5 years) CBN regulatory compliance, AML/CTF obligations
API Logs 30 days (automatically deleted) Service monitoring and debugging
Activity & Notification Logs 12 months, then anonymised or deleted Security audits and service improvement
Device Tokens Until you uninstall the app or disable notifications Push notification delivery

When data is no longer needed, it is securely deleted or irreversibly anonymised.