Privacy Policy

Notice version: draft-1

Effective date: October 2026. Controller: KodaStack Tech Labs (CAC business name registration no. 9891559), registered at 12 University Road, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria, contact ceo@shinzii.tech, website checkam.shinzii.me. This Privacy Policy explains how Check Am collects and uses information when you submit online content for verification through our website, Telegram bot (not available yet) or any enabled messaging integration.

What we collect

The text and other information you choose to submit (photographs, screenshots and links are not available yet); technical information such as request time and approximate network/security metadata; optionally your account email and saved reports (accounts are not available yet); messaging platform identifier and limited delivery data when you message our bot (not available yet); feedback and support messages. Submissions may contain information about people other than you, so please remove sensitive personal information unless essential and lawfully shared.

Why we use it

To receive and analyze your submission; retrieve public supporting sources (not available yet); generate a response and make it available to you; prevent abuse, maintain security, troubleshoot errors and honor legal obligations; remember checks and send requested service emails if you enable those features (not available yet). We do not use your submissions to target advertising or sell personal data. We do not use submitted content to train our own models by default.

AI and external processing

When online verification is switched on, Check Am will combine automated extraction, machine learning and source retrieval. Some tasks will be sent to selected AI API providers (such as Anthropic) or search/services listed on [SUBPROCESSOR PAGE]. We aim to minimize information shared. Using Telegram or WhatsApp (not available yet) also involves processing by those platforms under their own policies. Specific providers, transfers, retention and settings are listed at [LINK] and may change with notice. We do not claim an external provider never retains data unless documented in its binding terms.

No AI model is used yet. When one is switched on, Check Am will send the text you submit to Anthropic’s Claude Haiku model through Anthropic’s API. Anthropic’s commercial terms say it does not train its models on content sent through its API. Check Am, including the database that holds your submissions and reports, runs on a server we operate ourselves.

Legal basis

As applicable under Nigerian data-protection law and other relevant laws, we process information to provide the requested service, comply with legal duties, protect the security of the service and, where required, based on your consent. Marketing communication requires separate optional consent and can be withdrawn without losing access to the core service. Precise purpose-by-purpose lawful bases are documented at [LINK/CONTROLLER RECORD].

Sharing

Apart from anyone who has your report link, access is limited to authorized service personnel and approved providers needed to deliver checks, secure systems or obey valid legal requests. Anyone who has your report link can read and delete your check. We do not make private submissions or reports public unless you expressly choose public sharing (not available yet). Once public sharing is available, a public share page will be accessible to anyone with its link until withdrawn or expired; do not publish personal or confidential information.

Storage, security and retention

Submissions are private by default. We use access controls, encryption in transit, restricted storage and deletion routines.

• Checks still queued or in progress after 72 hours: erased.
• Guest submission text: kept for 7 days, unless you delete the check sooner.
• Guest private reports: kept for 30 days, unless you delete the check sooner.
• Raw uploads: Not offered yet.
• Account history: Not offered yet.
• Public reports: Not offered yet.
• Security logs: [FILL IN ACTUAL RETENTION SCHEDULE]
• Backups: [FILL IN ACTUAL RETENTION SCHEDULE]

No system is perfectly secure. If an incident creates a material risk, we will take appropriate steps and provide notices required by law.

Your choices and rights

Subject to applicable law, you may request access, correction, deletion, objection, restriction, withdrawal of consent and other available rights by contacting ceo@shinzii.tech or using [SELF-SERVICE LINK]. We may request proportionate verification to protect your data. We respond within legally applicable timeframes and explain any lawful limits. Once these features are available, you will be able to revoke a public report, opt out of marketing and request removal of bot records by messaging DELETE where supported.

Children

The service is not directed to children under [AGE POLICY, LEGALLY REVIEWED], and we do not knowingly solicit children's sensitive information. If we learn such material has been improperly collected, we will assess and delete or restrict it as required by law.

International transfers

Providers or hosts may process information in different countries. We assess relevant transfer safeguards and provider agreements before enabling those transfers; details can be requested at ceo@shinzii.tech.

Cookies and analytics

We do not currently use cookies or similar tracking technologies on this website. Nonessential analytics/marketing cookies, if added, will have appropriate choice mechanisms. See Cookies & tracking.

Contact, complaint and updates

Contact ceo@shinzii.tech. You may also contact a relevant supervisory authority, including the Nigeria Data Protection Commission where applicable. We will update this notice when processing materially changes and display the revision date.