Política de Privacidade

Who we are

Federal Africa, operated by Africa One LLC ("we", "us") runs federalafrica.org and federalafrica.com, the websites of Federal Africa, a citizen-led simulation of a united Africa. This policy covers the public site, the member area, the member dashboard and public profiles. Questions about it go to info@federalafrica.org.

What we collect

• Account details: first and last name, email address, country, and a password we store only as a one-way hash.
• Profile details you choose to add: photo, city, biography, interests, expertise, previous positions, social links.
• Membership and payment records: your tier, membership number, dates, the amount paid, the provider used and its reference. We never see or store card numbers or mobile money PINs; those go to the payment provider.
• Activity inside Federal Africa: votes cast, projects joined, councils and communities you belong to, posts and comments you make.
• Technical data: IP address, browser and device type, and the pages you request, kept in server logs for security, abuse prevention and rate limiting.
• Email events: whether a confirmation, reset or receipt mail was sent, and bounces reported by our email provider.

Why we use it

• To run your membership: create your account, confirm your email, take payment, activate your tier, send receipts and renewal reminders.
• To run the federation: count your votes, seat you in councils and institutions, list you in the member directory, show your public profile at the visibility you choose.
• To keep the site safe: detect abuse, limit sign-up and login attempts, moderate reported content.
• To contact you about Federal Africa: service messages always; newsletters and announcements only while you keep them switched on in your profile.

Who else handles your data

We use these providers, each under its own privacy terms, and share only what each needs:

• Hetzner Online GmbH (Germany): hosting of the website and database.
• Cloudflare, Inc.: DNS and traffic protection in front of the website.
• Amazon Web Services (Amazon SES, EU-Central): sending of confirmation, reset and receipt emails.
• Pesapal, Flutterwave and PayPal: processing of membership payments. Your name, email and the amount are passed to the provider you choose; the provider returns a reference and the outcome.
• The Federal ID system (OFIS), once enrollment opens: issuing and verifying your Federal ID.
• Meta Platforms (WhatsApp): carrying the messages you send to our WhatsApp number and our replies.
• Anthropic, PBC: the AI model that writes the answers of the assistant on our site.

Checking that you are a person

When you create a Federal ID, we use Cloudflare Turnstile to check that the request comes from a person and not an automated program. Turnstile receives your IP address, technical details about your browser and signals about how it behaves, and tells us whether the check passed. Cloudflare handles this for us and may also use it to improve its bot detection. We do not use it for advertising.

Writing to us on WhatsApp

When you write to Federal Africa on WhatsApp, your message, your WhatsApp name and your phone number reach us through Meta, the company that runs WhatsApp. Our support team reads the messages in order to answer you. We keep them for up to 24 months, then delete them. Do not send passwords or card details on WhatsApp.

The assistant on our site

When you type a question into the assistant on our site, the question and the conversation so far are sent to Anthropic, the company that provides the AI model, to produce the answer. We do not send your name, account or contact details with it. We save the questions and answers for up to 12 months so that our team can read them and improve the assistant. They are saved without your name, account or internet address, and we remove email addresses, phone numbers and ID numbers we recognise before saving. Do not type personal details into the assistant.

Your public profile

Your public profile shows your name, photo, country and city, tier, the offices you hold and the profile details you added. You choose whether it is public, visible to members only, or private, from your dashboard. Your email address and payment details are never shown.

How long we keep it

• Your account and profile: for as long as you are a member or your membership is pending.
• A pending account that is not paid within 30 days is deleted.
• Payment and membership records: seven years after the payment, for accounting.
• Server logs: 30 days.
• WhatsApp messages to our support team: up to 24 months.
• Questions and answers in the site assistant: up to 12 months, without your name, account or internet address.
• When you delete your account, your profile, posts and votes are removed or anonymised within 30 days; payment records are kept as above.

Your rights

You can see and correct your details from your dashboard at any time. You can ask us for a copy of your data, ask us to correct or delete it, or object to a use of it by writing to info@federalafrica.org. We answer within 30 days. If you are in a country with a data protection authority, you may also complain to it.

Cookies and storage

We set no advertising or tracking cookies. The site keeps your sign-in tokens and your preferences in your browser's storage so that you stay signed in; Cloudflare may set a security cookie to protect the site from abuse. When you choose a language, or the site picks one from your browser's settings, we store that choice in a cookie named NEXT_LOCALE for one year so that pages open in your language; it holds only the language code (for example "fr") and is not used for tracking.

Age

Membership is open to people aged 18 and over. We do not knowingly collect data from children.

Changes

We update this policy when our services change and show the effective date at the top. Members are told of material changes by email.