The platform: your projects and your users' data
Here we are your processor, acting on your instructions.
| Data | Where it lives | Leaves Zambia? |
|---|---|---|
| Your databases: tables, sign-in users, sessions | Each project's own PostgreSQL container on our server in Lusaka | No |
| Your uploaded files | Our server in Lusaka | No |
| Platform records: accounts, projects, billing ledger, project credentials | Our platform database in Lusaka | No |
| Off-site backup copy (paid plans) | Cloudflare R2 (Cloudflare, Inc., USA; location chosen by Cloudflare). Encrypted with AES-256 in Lusaka before upload; the key stays in Zambia | Yes, encrypted outside Zambia |
| Requests on their way in | Cloudflare's network and DNS. The secure connection is set up at the site nearest the user; for Airtel users in Zambia that is Johannesburg | Passes through outside Zambia |
| Sign-in emails your projects send (confirmations, password resets) | Resend (USA) | Yes outside Zambia |
Plan fees
Here we are the controller.
| Data | Service |
|---|---|
| Payer phone number, amount and reference | Lenco (mobile money collection) |
This website and its sign-up form
Here we are the controller.
| Data | Service | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Website hosting and form handling | Vercel | USA outside Zambia |
| Emails to people who sign up, and to our team | Resend | USA outside Zambia |
| Newsletters and updates to people who sign up | Zoho Campaigns | USA outside Zambia |
| Company email, including replies to people who sign up | Zoho Mail | USA outside Zambia |
| Website analytics, if you accept the cookie banner | Amplitude | EU outside Zambia |
| Website page views, if you accept the cookie banner | Google Analytics | Global outside Zambia |
| Conversations with people who sign up | WhatsApp (Meta) | Global outside Zambia |
| Company email and documents, including notes from calls | Google Workspace | Global outside Zambia |
Keeping this current
We add a service to this page before it goes live, and review the list at least every quarter. Our intention is to move the off-site backup copy and the website's sign-up storage into Zambia; this page will change when they do.