Privacy

Asotele is currently a public-information project: it ingests public economic data, publishes forecasts and briefings, and offers a newsletter. We collect the minimum required to operate that. This page documents what we collect, why, how long we keep it, and what changes when the SME-facing tier launches.

What we collect right now

  • Newsletter signups — email address only, submitted to our newsletter provider (Buttondown). Used to send engineering updates roughly quarterly. Unsubscribe link is in every email.
  • Inbound emails — when you write to francis.oyakhire@gmail.com, we receive your email content via standard mail handling.
  • Standard web logs — our static-site host records IP-level request logs for abuse prevention. These rotate on the host's standard retention.

What we do not collect

  • No user accounts, no passwords, no behavioural profiles.
  • No third-party advertising or marketing trackers.
  • No analytics SDKs that fingerprint visitors.
  • No location data beyond what HTTP requests inherently expose.
  • No resale, licensing, or sharing of user-provided data with third parties for marketing.

What changes when the SME tier launches (Q4 2026)

The free multilingual web chat interface will, by necessity, collect more — your messages to the assistant, language preference, and minimal session identifiers needed to maintain conversation context. Before that launch, this privacy page will be updated to cover:

  • Exactly what conversation data is stored, where, and for how long
  • How to request export or deletion of your own data
  • Which (if any) third-party processors are involved (e.g., model-inference hosting, chat-channel adapters if added later)
  • Data minimisation, retention limits, and breach-notification commitments
  • The legal basis under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 and (where applicable) other regional regimes

The principle is privacy-by-design: collect the minimum necessary to provide the service, never resell, expire by default.

Institutional & pilot deployments

When Asotele is deployed inside a bank's VPC or via the institutional REST API, the institution's data stays with the institution. We do not pull customer transaction data back to our infrastructure for model training or any other purpose without a separate, explicit data-processing agreement.

Contact & data-subject requests

For any privacy question, access request, correction request, or deletion request, write to francis.oyakhire@gmail.com. We respond within 14 days.

Updates

This page is the canonical statement of what we currently collect. Material changes are dated below and announced in the engineering newsletter.

Last updated: 2026-06-14