PRIVACY POLICY FOR SABI-ME APP

Last updated: 8th May 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Sabi-me, operated by Community Center for Integrated Development (CICD) collects, uses, stores, protects, and shares information when you use our mobile app, website, community features, and related services. Sabi-me is a privacy-first app built to support young people and communities with relationship safety, sexual health information, emotional wellbeing, boundaries, personal reflection, and access to helpful resources.

Our main privacy promise is simple:
Your private health, relationship, and safety journey should remain private.
This policy explains what information stays private, what may be shared in community spaces, and how we plan to protect users as the app grows.

1. What This Policy Covers

This Privacy Policy applies to:

  • The Sabi-me mobile app
  • The Sabi-me website
  • Account registration and login
  • Anonymous use where available
  • Private tools such as journals, safety planning, reflections, boundaries, saved resources, and vault features
  • Community tools such as posts, comments, campus events, campus map, quests, and reactions
  • Any future Sabi-me services that link to this Privacy Policy


2. Our Privacy Commitments

We are committed to handling your information carefully.

We do not sell your personal information.

We do not sell your health, relationship, safety, or wellness data.

We do not use your private journal entries, reflections, safety notes, or vault records for advertising.

We separate private spaces from community spaces.

We use encryption and secure storage where appropriate.

We collect only what we need to run, protect, improve, and support the app.

We will update this Privacy Policy if we make major changes to how sensitive information is handled.


3. Information We May Collect

The information we collect depends on how you use Sabi-me.

Account Information

If you create an account, we may collect:

  • Your email address
  • Your phone number
  • Your display name or handle
  • Your password or login details
  • Your user ID
  • Whether your account is anonymous or registered
  • Password reset details, such as reset codes

Some parts of Sabi-me may allow anonymous use. Even then, the app may create a technical user ID so it can save your progress and keep your session working.

Private Wellness and Safety Information

Sabi-me includes private tools where you may save sensitive information. This may include:

  • Journal entries
  • Mood reflections
  • Relationship reflections
  • Sexual health or reproductive health interests
  • Boundary exercises
  • Love Lens progress
  • Safety planning information
  • Saved resources
  • Safe Circle contacts
  • Documentation Vault notes
  • Incident records
  • Personal progress
  • Private achievements

This information may be personal and sensitive. We treat it with extra care.

Where supported, this information is stored on your device and/or encrypted before being synced to our servers.

Safe Circle Information

If you use Safe Circle, you may choose to save details about trusted people, such as:

  • Their name
  • Their relationship to you
  • Their phone number
  • Their backup phone number
  • Their email address
  • Whether they are safe to call
  • Whether they are safe to text
  • Whether it is safe to mention relationship concerns to them
  • Whether they may receive emergency or SOS-related alerts, if such features are enabled

You should only add people you trust.

Documentation Vault Information

If you use the Documentation Vault, you may save private records such as:

  • Notes about incidents
  • Dates or times
  • Images or supporting files
  • Safety-related observations

The Documentation Vault is for private record keeping. It is not a police report, legal report, medical report, or emergency service by itself.

Community Information

If you use community features, we may collect what you choose to post or interact with, such as:

  • Street Talk posts
  • Comments and replies
  • Tags
  • Polls
  • Red flag votes
  • Likes, dislikes, and other reactions
  • Your display handle
  • Moderation-related information

Community spaces are different from private tools. Posts, comments, reactions, events, map pins, and other community contributions may be visible to other users.

Campus Map, Events, and Quests

If you use campus or community features, we may collect information such as:

  • Map pins you submit
  • Place names
  • Categories
  • Descriptions
  • Contact details for a place or resource
  • Opening hours
  • Address hints
  • Coordinates for places or events
  • Event titles
  • Event descriptions
  • Event times
  • Event locations
  • Hosts
  • Cost information
  • What-to-bring notes
  • Personal notes attached to events
  • Quest progress
  • Quest reflection answers
  • Check-in status
  • Codes entered for quest completion

Sabi-me is not designed to continuously track your movements. However, if you submit a location-based item, such as a map pin or event, that location information may be stored and shown to other users as part of the community feature.

Device and Technical Information

We may collect basic technical information needed to run and protect the app, such as:

  • Device type
  • Operating system
  • App version
  • IP address
  • Server request logs
  • Error logs
  • Crash information
  • Authentication tokens
  • Session information
  • Date and time of activity

This helps us fix problems, improve security, prevent abuse, and keep the app working.

Website Information

When you visit our website, we may collect limited information such as:

  • Pages visited
  • Browser type
  • Device type
  • IP address
  • Approximate location or region
  • Contact form messages
  • Email signups, if offered

If we use cookies or analytics on the website, we will explain how they are used where required.

4. How We Use Information

We use information to:

  • Create and manage accounts
  • Let users log in
  • Support anonymous access where available
  • Save private progress and settings
  • Sync private data where supported
  • Provide community features
  • Show campus resources, events, maps, and quests
  • Protect users and improve safety
  • Moderate harmful or abusive content
  • Prevent spam, fraud, and misuse
  • Respond to support requests
  • Send password reset messages
  • Fix bugs
  • Improve performance and accessibility
  • Keep the app secure
  • Build future privacy-first health, safety, and community features

We do not use your private journal entries, vault records, safety notes, or private reflections to target ads.


5. Private Spaces and Community Spaces

Sabi-me has two types of spaces.

Private Spaces

Private spaces include tools such as:

  • Journal
  • Personal reflections
  • Mood history
  • Love Lens
  • Boundaries
  • Safe Circle
  • Documentation Vault
  • Saved safety resources
  • Private progress and achievements

These spaces are meant for you. They are not meant to be public.

Community Spaces

Community spaces include:

  • Posts
  • Comments
  • Replies
  • Reactions
  • Polls
  • Campus map pins
  • Campus events
  • Campus quests
  • Shared community contributions

Information you add to community spaces may be seen by other users, moderators, or administrators. Please do not post private information about yourself or someone else unless you are comfortable sharing it.


6. How We Protect Your Information

We use reasonable security measures to protect your information.

These may include:

  • Secure device storage
  • Encrypted storage where supported
  • Encrypted private sync
  • Password protection
  • Authentication tokens
  • Backend access controls
  • Secure communication between the app and server
  • PIN or biometric protection for some features

Some private information may be encrypted before it is sent to our servers. This may include private data such as journals, Safe Circle data, vault records, relationship reflections, boundary progress, and personal progress.

However, not all information can be encrypted in the same way. For example, account details, community posts, comments, map pins, events, moderation information, and server logs may need to be readable by our systems so the app can work properly.


7. Data Stored on Your Device

Some information may be stored directly on your phone. This may include:

  • Journal entries
  • Vault records
  • Safe Circle contacts
  • Settings
  • Preferences
  • Offline data
  • Progress information
  • Saved resources

If you delete the app, clear app data, reset your phone, or lose your device, some local information may be lost unless it has been synced or backed up.

You should protect your phone with a PIN, password, fingerprint, face unlock, or other device security feature.


8. Privacy and Safety Features

Sabi-me may include safety and privacy features such as:

  • Biometric lock
  • Quick Exit
  • Disguise Mode
  • Discreet alerts
  • PIN-protected vault features
  • Local-first storage
  • Encrypted sync where supported
  • Anonymous access options

These features are designed to help users in sensitive or shared environments. They can improve privacy, but they cannot guarantee complete safety.

For example, someone with access to your phone, password, screenshots, notifications, cloud backups, or monitoring apps may still see some information.


9. Health, Safety, and Educational Content

Sabi-me may provide information about:

  • Sexual health
  • Reproductive health
  • Relationships
  • Consent
  • Boundaries
  • Red flags
  • Emotional safety
  • Digital safety
  • Violence escalation
  • Financial escape planning
  • Recovery and healing
  • Campus and community resources

This content is for education and support only.

Sabi-me is not a hospital, clinic, therapist, lawyer, police service, emergency service, or crisis response provider.

If you are in immediate danger or need urgent help, contact local emergency services, a trusted person, a medical provider, law enforcement, or a relevant support organization.


10. When We Share Information

We do not sell your personal data.

We may share information only in limited situations.

We may share information with service providers that help us run the app, such as hosting providers, database services, email services, authentication services, security tools, or support tools.

Community content may be visible to other users because that is how community features work.

We may access, review, preserve, or disclose information if needed to protect users, investigate abuse, prevent fraud, enforce rules, respond to legal requests, or protect our rights and services.

We may also share information when you clearly give us permission.


11. Data We Do Not Sell

We do not sell:

  • Journal entries
  • Private reflections
  • Sexual health information
  • Safety planning information
  • Vault records
  • Safe Circle contacts
  • Community participation data
  • Account information
  • Device data

We do not sell user information to advertisers, data brokers, political groups, or organizations that profile people based on sensitive health or relationship information.


12. Data Retention

We keep information only for as long as reasonably needed.

How long we keep information may depend on:

  • Whether your account is active
  • Whether the data is stored locally or synced
  • Whether the data is part of a community feature
  • Whether we need it for security, moderation, legal, or operational reasons
  • Whether you ask us to delete it

Private data stored on your device may remain there until you delete it, clear app data, or uninstall the app.

Community content may remain visible unless you delete it, we remove it, or deletion is available through account controls.


13. Deleting Your Data

Depending on the feature, you may be able to:

  • Delete journal entries
  • Delete private records
  • Remove saved resources
  • Clear local app data
  • Delete community posts or comments where supported
  • Request account deletion
  • Request deletion of personal information stored on our servers

To request deletion, contact us using the details at the end of this policy.

Some information may not be deleted immediately if we need to keep it for legal, security, moderation, abuse prevention, backup, or operational reasons.


14. Your Choices and Rights

Depending on your location and the law that applies, you may have the right to:

  • Ask what personal information we hold about you
  • Correct inaccurate information
  • Delete your personal information
  • Request a copy of your data
  • Object to certain uses of your data
  • Withdraw consent where consent is required
  • Restrict certain processing
  • Complain to a data protection authority

You can contact us to make these requests.


15. Young Users

Sabi-me is designed to support young people, students, and community members with sensitive health, relationship, and safety information.

Users should only use the app if they are old enough under applicable law or have the required permission from a parent or guardian.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children where parental consent is legally required. If we learn that we collected such information without proper consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.


16. Shared Devices and Sensitive Situations

Some users may use Sabi-me in sensitive situations. Please remember that privacy can be affected by things outside the app, such as:

  • Someone else knowing your phone password
  • Shared devices
  • Screenshots
  • Notification previews
  • Screen recording
  • Cloud backups
  • Spyware or monitoring apps
  • Browser history
  • App store history
  • Someone else controlling your phone or account

Sabi-me offers privacy features where possible, but we cannot control your device, operating system, mobile network, family members, partners, institutions, or third-party apps.


17. Future Plans

Sabi-me may grow in the future.

Future features may include:

  • Better health resource directories
  • Partner clinic or support organization referrals
  • AI-assisted educational guidance
  • Anonymous surveys
  • Research and impact reports
  • Expanded campus safety tools
  • Emergency support workflows
  • Web dashboards
  • Counselor, peer educator, or moderator tools
  • Appointment or referral features
  • Learning programs
  • Community campaigns
  • Data export tools
  • Stronger encrypted backup and recovery options

If we add features that significantly change how sensitive information is collected, used, stored, or shared, we will update this Privacy Policy. Where required, we will ask for consent or give additional notice.

Our future work will continue to follow the same principle: sensitive health, relationship, safety, and wellness data should be handled with care, honesty, and respect.


18. Research and Impact Measurement

In the future, we may use aggregated or de-identified information to understand whether Sabi-me is helping users and communities.

For example, we may study:

  • Which resources are used most
  • Which topics users engage with
  • General app performance
  • Community safety trends
  • Educational campaign reach
  • Program impact

When possible, this information will be grouped together or de-identified so it does not directly identify individual users.

We will not publish private journal entries, vault records, Safe Circle contacts, or personal reflections as research data without clear permission.


19. Third-Party Links and Resources

Sabi-me may link to third-party websites, clinics, organizations, hotlines, educational resources, or support services.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third parties. If you use a third-party service, their own privacy policy applies.


20. Security Limits

We work hard to protect your information, but no app or system is completely secure.

We cannot guarantee that information will never be accessed, lost, changed, or disclosed because of:

  • Cyberattacks
  • Weak passwords
  • Device theft
  • Unauthorized device access
  • User error
  • Software bugs
  • Legal disclosure requirements
  • Third-party service failures

If we discover a security issue that affects your personal information, we will take reasonable steps to respond and notify affected users where required by law.


21. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

If we make important changes, we may notify users through the app, website, email, account notices, or another suitable method.

The latest version will always show the date it was last updated.


22. Contact Us

If you have questions, concerns, or requests about this Privacy Policy, contact us at:

Email: info@comuceid.org

Organization: Community Center for Integrated Development (CICD)

Website: https://comuceid.org

Address: Express Union Building D61 Road, Checkpoint Buea, Molyko, Buea – Cameroon (CM)

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