Privacy policy

WAKA WELL is a map and directory for Lekki and Yaba, Lagos. This page says what we collect and why, in plain words.

What stays on your phone

Your saved places, recent places, Home and Work, display name and settings are stored on your phone only. Your position is used on your phone to show where you are and to plan a route. It is not sent to us for that.

What we receive

• When you confirm a place, review it, add a photo, report a problem or send a survey: what you wrote or chose, your display name if you gave one, a random device ID, and the date. A photo has its hidden location data removed before it is sent. For a confirmation we check on our server that you were within 250 m of the place, and we keep that distance, not your position.
• A hashed network address: we turn your IP address into a scrambled value so we can stop abuse such as many submissions from one source. We cannot read the address back.
• Field agents: the position at the time of a survey is kept, because it sets the entrance or the corrected pin.

Business phone numbers and websites

Most places come from public listings. The phone number or website shown is the one the business published itself, and it is marked "from a public listing, not confirmed". We do not add numbers from anywhere else.

If a number is yours and you want it gone: open the place, tap "This is my number: remove it" (or "Report a problem" and choose "Remove my number or listing"). We remove it from the app once we have checked the request.

Who sees what

Reviews, photos and corrections are shown to everyone only after we have approved them, with the display name you chose. We do not sell personal data and we do not run advertising trackers. Map data comes from OpenStreetMap contributors and Overture Maps.

How long we keep it

Submissions are kept while they are useful to keep places accurate. You can ask for yours to be deleted using "Report a problem" in the app, naming the place and what you sent.

Your rights

Under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 you can ask what we hold about you, ask us to correct or delete it, and complain to the Nigeria Data Protection Commission. Use "Send feedback" in Profile to reach us.