What we keep, and why

Ụdaume keeps a family’s voices so that they are not lost. That means we keep some things about you. This page says what they are, in plain words. We do not sell anything about you, we show no advertising, and nothing in the app follows you anywhere else.

Who we are

Ụdaume is made by UDAUME LIMITED, a company in Nigeria. Write to hello@udaume.com about anything on this page.

What we keep about you

• Your account: your name, a username, your email address or phone number (whichever you sign in with), a password if you choose one, and a picture if you add one.
• What you keep for your family: recordings of voices, songs and sounds, videos and pictures, the words you write down for them, and the names, years, towns and places in the family you put in.
• Your family’s people: the names and years of relatives you add, and a phone number only if you give one so that a question can reach them on WhatsApp.
• What you do in the archive, so the app can work: which recordings you pressed play on, what you marked with a heart, questions you asked and answered. Your listening is shown to nobody but you.
• Your phone’s notification address, if you allow notifications, so we can tell you when something waits for you.
• At a guest book: a guest’s name and the voice they leave for the family. A guest needs no account.
• Payments: what was paid, when, by whom and for what. Card and bank details go to the payment company and are never kept by us.

Who sees it

What you keep for your family is seen by your family. It is seen by everybody only if your family chooses to open it to everyone, and that is always asked for plainly first. People who look after the archive can see what they need to answer a report or to keep it safe, and every time they act it is written down.

Who helps us keep it

We use a few companies to run Ụdaume. They handle your information only to do their part:

• Supabase — where the archive, its recordings and sign-in are kept.
• Vercel — where the website runs.
• Resend — which sends our emails.
• Expo, Apple and Google — which carry notifications to your phone.
• WhatsApp (Meta) — only when a question is sent to a relative there.
• Flutterwave — which takes payments on the website. When plans can be bought in the apps, Apple and Google take those payments.

Your permissions on the phone

The app asks for the microphone to record, the camera and photos to add a picture or a video, and notifications to tell you when something waits. Each is asked for only when you first need it, and each can be turned off in your phone’s settings.

Taking it back

You can change your name, picture and anything you added at any time. You can ask us for a copy of what we keep about you. And you can delete your account inside the app, in Settings — or see how to delete your account without the app.

When an account is deleted, your sign-in, name, username, picture, email and phone number go. What you kept for your family stays with your family, because it is theirs too, and your name on it becomes “a keeper who left”. If you want something you recorded taken down as well, tell us and we will.

Children

Families add their children’s names and voices. If you believe a child’s voice or name was added without their parent agreeing, write to us and we will take it down.

Blocking and reporting

Anybody can report something they see, and anybody can block another member, so that they no longer see what that person adds. We read every report.

When this page changes

If we start keeping something new, this page changes first, and anything that matters is told to you in the app. Last changed 26 September 2026.