Your words are yours.

Who we are

Noted is operated by Volante Labs, Zambia (“we”, “us”). For anything about your data, email emmanuelkasuba2005@gmail.com.

What we collect

Your account

• Email address and password. Used to sign you in and to send account emails (confirmation, password reset, security notices). Passwords are stored as a secure hash by our authentication provider — we never see them.
• Username, role and profile. Your username, whether you joined as a poet or a reader, an optional bio and an optional profile photo.
• Date of birth. We ask for it when you sign up, only to check you’re 13 or older. We don’t store it: once the check passes, we keep only a note that it did.

What you create and do

• Poems you write, including whether each one is public or private.
• Comments, likes on comments, ratings and feedback you give on poems.
• Who you follow and who follows you.
• Which poems you’ve opened, so the New feed can show you ones you haven’t read yet.
• In-app notifications generated by this activity.

Settings and device

• Your display preferences (such as theme and font) and notification preferences, including quiet hours.
• A push notification token and your device platform (iOS or Android), if you allow notifications. This lets us deliver notifications to your phone.

Photos

The app asks for photo-library access only when you choose a profile photo or save a poem card to your phone. We upload only the photo you pick as your profile picture. Poem cards you save stay on your device.

What we don’t collect

No advertising identifiers, no location, no contacts, no analytics or tracking tools, and no payment details.

How we use it

• To run your account and show your writing to the people you choose.
• To send the notifications and emails you’ve allowed.
• To keep Noted safe — for example, investigating reports of abuse.

We don’t use your writing to train AI models, and we don’t sell or rent your data to anyone.

Who can see what

• Public: your username, bio, profile photo, follower counts, and poems you mark as public — along with comments on them.
• Only you: poems you keep private, your email address, your settings.
• You and the poem’s author: feedback you leave on someone’s poem.

Services that process your data

We use a small number of providers to run Noted. They process data only on our behalf:

• Supabase — database, sign-in and profile-photo storage.
• Expo — delivering push notifications and app updates.
• Resend — sending account emails.
• Vercel — hosting this website.

These providers may store data on servers outside Zambia. All connections are encrypted in transit.

How long we keep it

We keep your data for as long as you have an account. When you delete your account, your profile, poems, comments, feedback, follows, notifications, settings and profile photo are deleted immediately. Copies may remain in our providers’ encrypted backups for up to 30 days before they are overwritten.

Your choices and rights

• Edit your profile and poems, or make a poem private, at any time in the app.
• Turn off notifications in the app or in your phone’s settings.
• Delete your account in the app (Settings → Delete account) or on the web at noted.volante.center/delete-account.
• Ask us for a copy of your data, or to correct it, by emailing emmanuelkasuba2005@gmail.com. We’ll reply within 30 days.

These rights apply wherever you live, including under Zambia’s Data Protection Act, 2021 and similar laws elsewhere.

Children

Noted is for people aged 13 and over. We ask for a date of birth when someone signs up and don’t create an account for anyone under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has made an account anyway, email emmanuelkasuba2005@gmail.com and we’ll delete it.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we’ll update the date at the top. For significant changes, we’ll let you know in the app before they take effect.

Contact

Questions or requests: emmanuelkasuba2005@gmail.com.