What we hold about you, and who can see it

Your name and phone number are how you log in and how somebody reaches you about an order, a listing or a susu. Without them there is no account.

What you do on Bantaba is held because it is the record. A susu balance is worked out from the dated lines of your own contributions, so the lines have to exist for the balance to mean anything. That is the whole point of replacing the notebook.

Identity documents exist because a Business Rotating susu pays a member a large sum before they have finished paying in, and the people putting money in are entitled to know who is being paid. That is why no other product asks for one.

Photographs exist so a shopper can see a product and a renter can see a room. Payment details exist so money can reach you.

Identity documents are treated differently from every other file on the site. They are not public, they are not served from a guessable address, and they are handed only to the people entitled to review them: the organiser of the susu that required the document, or an administrator handling that review.

A photograph you put on a product or a rent listing is, by definition, visible to anybody who visits that page. Think about what is in the frame behind the thing you are photographing.

Your account and what is in it are kept for as long as you have an account. Ask us to delete it and we delete it.

Two things survive that, and both for the same reason. Records of money that actually moved are kept for as long as the law requires a business to keep them. And a susu that other people are still saving in keeps the record of what you contributed to it, because deleting your lines would change the arithmetic for everybody else in the group. Your name comes out of it, the figures stay.

Identity documents are deleted once the susu that required them has finished and the review they were for is closed. Photographs go when the listing or the product they belong to goes. A message sent through the contact form is kept only as long as it takes to answer it properly.

Bantaba can be added to your home screen, and when it is, a small piece of the site is kept on your phone so it opens quickly and does not stare at you blankly on a bad connection.

What is kept is the shell only: the layout, the fonts, the icons, the parts of the page that are the same for everybody. No balance, no contribution, no order and no document is ever written to that cache. Anything that is yours is fetched fresh from the server each time, which is why a balance needs a connection to show at all.

Clearing your browser data clears it. Nothing is left behind on a phone you sign out of.

Bantaba is young and it is still being built, so this notice will change. When it does, the date at the top of the page changes with it, and anything that materially alters what is held about you or who can see it will be told to you rather than quietly edited in.

The binding version of your relationship with Bantaba is in the terms and conditions, which are published with a version number and which you are asked to accept before a new version applies to you.