What we collect

• Your account: your name and email. If you use a password, our sign-in provider stores it in scrambled form. If you continue with Google or Apple, they share your email and sometimes your name with us, and you don’t need a Kuva password.
• Your class: your university, department, level, session and semester.
• Course rep requests: what you tell us to prove you’re a course rep, including any proof file, link or contact detail you give.
• What you add: materials, timetables and class updates you publish as a rep, announcements and flyers you post, posts you report, questions you ask Study Padi, and the recordings, transcripts, assignments, drafts and presentations you create.
• Credits: your balance, each credit change, and a record of which AI tool ran and when.
• Payments: when you buy credits, the pack, the amount, how you paid (card, transfer or USSD) and the payment reference. Your card or bank details go to Paystack, not to Kuva.
• Your device: the cookies listed below and, if you turn on alerts, the address your browser gives us for sending them.

The PDF tools (merge, organise, photos to PDF, add text and sign) run on your own phone or computer. Those files aren’t sent to Kuva.

Why we use it

• To create your account, sign you in and connect you to your class.
• To show you your class’s materials, timetable, coursework and announcements, and to notify you about them. You can turn each kind of notification off in your settings.
• To check who is really a course rep.
• To run the AI tools you choose to use, and to track the credits they cost.
• To keep Kuva safe, including reviewing reported posts and limiting free credits to one per person.

We rely on the agreement between us to provide Kuva, on our legitimate interest in keeping it safe and working, and on your consent where we ask for it, such as for device alerts.

Stopping free credits being claimed twice

When you receive free credits, we keep a scrambled version of your email and of a code that identifies your device. It lets us recognise an email or device that has already had them. We keep this even after you delete your account, and we don’t use it for anything else.

Who else sees it

We don’t sell your information or show advertising.

• Your classmates and university: your name appears on announcements you post, which other students at your university can see. Materials and updates you publish as a rep are visible to the audience you choose.
• Kuva’s administrators: they can see account details, credit history, rep requests and reported posts, to run and protect the service.
• Supabase and Vercel store our data and files, handle sign-in and host the site.
• Google Gemini receives what you send to an AI tool, such as your question, a class PDF, your assignment details, your draft or a recording, and the words and flyer of an announcement posted without a date, to find when it ends. On its free service, Google may use what’s sent to improve its products, so don’t send anything private. Each tool tells you before you send.
• Wikipedia, OpenAlex and Crossref receive short phrases or search words when you check originality or have an assignment written. Your whole draft isn’t sent.
• Quetext receives your whole draft when you run the full plagiarism check, to compare it with web pages and academic sources. Kuva deletes it from Quetext as soon as the result is back. Quetext handles it under its own privacy policy while it has it.
• Google or Apple handle sign-in if you continue with them.
• Paystack takes payments when you buy credits. It receives your email and the amount, and handles your card or bank details under its own privacy policy.
• Our email provider sends your verification and password emails, and your browser’s alert service (from Google, Apple, Mozilla or Microsoft) delivers device alerts.

These providers may store or process information outside Nigeria, including in the European Union and the United States.

How long we keep it

• Your account and what’s saved in it stay until you delete them or your account.
• Recording audio is deleted once it has been transcribed. A recording left unfinished is deleted after two days.
• An announcement is deleted, with its flyer, once its date has passed, or after 14 days if it has no date.
• Payment records are kept even after you delete your account, because the law requires business records of payments.

Deleting your account

You can delete your account at any time from your profile. Your sign-in, class details, saved files, notifications and device alerts are removed, and you’re signed out everywhere. Materials you published as a rep stay for your class, shown as from a former course rep. We keep records needed for security and accounting, without your name or email, and the scrambled record described above.

Your rights

Under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, you can ask to see the information we hold about you, correct it, delete it, receive a copy, object to how we use it, or withdraw your consent. Contact us at notifications@kuva.com to do any of these. You can also complain to the Nigeria Data Protection Commission.

Cookies

Kuva only uses cookies it needs to work. There are no advertising or tracking cookies.

• Staying signed in: lasts up to a year, or until you sign out.
• Device code: lasts up to two years, for the free-credit limit.
• Sign-up and sign-in steps: last from minutes to a day, to remember where you’d got to.

Students under 18

If you’re under 18, a parent or guardian needs to agree to you using Kuva.

Changes

If we change this notice in a way that matters, we’ll update the date above and tell you in Kuva. See also our Terms.