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Privacy Policy

Effective Date: October 4, 2026

Welcome to My Learning Buddy. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting the information you provide when using the myLB mobile application.

This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, how it may be processed by third-party services, and the choices available to you.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect information you provide directly to us, information generated through your use of myLB, and certain technical information collected automatically.

Account Information

When you create or maintain an account, we may collect information such as:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Account credentials, including your password or authentication information
  • Other information you voluntarily provide as part of your account

Study Materials and User-Generated Content

myLB allows you to create and use educational content. Depending on the features you use, this may include:

  • Notes and text you enter into the app
  • Study materials you upload
  • Flashcards and study sets you create
  • Mind maps and information contained within your Infinite Canvas
  • Text or voice responses submitted during Feynman Mode
  • Questions or problems submitted to AI Solve
  • Information used to generate AI-powered study plans

This information is used to provide the learning features you request.

Learning and Gamification Data

When you use myLB, we may collect information about your learning activity, including:

  • Study progress
  • Study sessions and interaction history
  • Feynman Mode activity
  • Study set and flashcard progress
  • Study plan progress
  • Focus Pet status and progression
  • Pet XP, evolution, and related game progress
  • Achievements and milestone badges
  • Trophy Room information
  • Co-op Quest participation and progress
  • Group challenge contributions and Group Relics
  • Learning analytics and performance information

Device and Technical Information

We may automatically collect certain technical information when you use the application, such as:

  • Device type and model
  • Operating system and version
  • Application version
  • General technical information about your device
  • Information about how you interact with the application
  • Error and diagnostic information

We use this information primarily to maintain, secure, troubleshoot, and improve myLB.

2. How We Use Your Information

We may use the information we collect to:

  • Create and manage your myLB account.
  • Provide and maintain the core features of the application.
  • Convert your notes and study materials into study sets and flashcards.
  • Generate and display mind maps through the Infinite Canvas.
  • Provide Feynman Mode and evaluate your explanations to provide AI-powered feedback.
  • Generate personalized study plans based on the information you provide.
  • Provide AI Solve and other educational assistance features.
  • Track your learning progress and study activity.
  • Maintain your Focus Pet, XP, evolution, achievements, and other gamification features.
  • Provide co-op quests, group challenges, shared progress, and Group Relics.
  • Display learning analytics and progress information.
  • Improve the functionality, reliability, security, and user experience of myLB.
  • Detect, prevent, and address technical problems, abuse, fraud, or security issues.
  • Respond to questions, support requests, and other communications.
  • Communicate important information about the application, including updates, security notices, and changes to our services or policies.

3. Legal Bases for Processing

We process your personal information only where we have a lawful basis to do so. Under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, the EU and UK GDPR, and comparable laws, our bases are:

Performance of a contract

To create and manage your account, provide the features you request (study sets, flashcards, Infinite Canvas, Feynman Mode, AI Study Plans, AI Solve, Focus Pets, Co-op Quests), and respond to support requests. Without this processing, we cannot provide myLB to you.

Consent

Where you have given us clear, specific permission, such as for optional communications, or where you choose to submit content into an AI feature. You may withdraw consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing carried out before you withdrew it, and it may mean you can no longer use features that depend on that processing.

Legitimate interests

To secure and protect myLB, detect and prevent abuse and fraud, troubleshoot errors, maintain and improve reliability and performance, and understand how the service is used. We balance these interests against your rights and expectations, and you have the right to object at any time (see Section 8, Your Data Rights).

Legal obligation

To comply with applicable law, respond to lawful requests from courts or authorities, and meet our regulatory and tax obligations.

Vital interests

In rare circumstances, to protect someone's life or safety.

Where we process personal information of a user below the age of legal majority, we do so on the basis of the consent of a parent or legal guardian where required by applicable law, or as necessary to provide the requested learning features.

4. Artificial Intelligence and Third-Party Processing

myLB uses artificial intelligence to provide features such as Feynman Mode, study-set generation, mind maps, study planning, AI Solve, and other AI-powered learning functionality.

DeepSeek

At this time, myLB uses DeepSeek as its third-party AI service provider.

DeepSeek processes data in the People's Republic of China, and its data controller is Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd.

Depending on the feature you use, information you submit to myLB may be sent to DeepSeek for processing so that the requested AI functionality can be provided.

For example, this may include:

  • Text from your study materials
  • Questions or prompts you submit
  • Your explanations during Feynman Mode
  • Transcribed voice input, where applicable
  • Other content necessary to generate the AI response you requested

We do not sell your personal information.

You should avoid submitting highly sensitive personal information (such as medical details, financial account numbers, government identification numbers, or information about third parties) into study materials, prompts, or other content unless it is strictly necessary for your use of the application.

Our AI provider's terms permit it to use submitted content to develop and improve its technology, including training its machine learning models. By using AI-powered features, you understand that content you submit may be used for this purpose. Do not submit content you are not comfortable with being used in this way.

5. How We Share Information

We may share information in the following circumstances:

Service Providers

We may use trusted third-party service providers to help us operate myLB, such as providers involved in:

  • AI processing
  • Cloud infrastructure and data storage
  • Authentication
  • Analytics
  • Application security
  • Technical support

These providers receive only the information reasonably necessary to provide their services.

Legal Requirements

We may disclose information if we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:

  • Comply with applicable law, regulation, legal process, or government request.
  • Protect the rights, safety, or property of myLB, our users, or others.
  • Detect, prevent, or investigate fraud, abuse, security issues, or other unlawful activity.

Business Transfers

If myLB is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, sale of assets, or similar business transaction, information associated with the application may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable privacy laws.

6. Data Security

We take reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect your information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no method of transmitting information over the internet or storing information electronically is completely secure. Therefore, while we work to protect your information, we cannot guarantee absolute security.

7. Data Retention

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide myLB's services, maintain your account, provide requested functionality, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and protect our legitimate interests.

Our current retention periods are:

  • Account information (name, email, credentials): retained while your account is active, then deleted within 30 days of account deletion.
  • Study content and learning data (notes, flashcards, study sets, progress): retained while your account is active, then deleted within 30 days of account deletion.
  • Support communications: retained for 24 months from the date the matter is closed.
  • Technical and diagnostic logs: retained for 12 months.
  • Backups: data may persist in encrypted backups for up to 90 days before being routinely overwritten.

Where we are required by law to retain information for longer (for example, tax or accounting records), we will retain only what is necessary and for the minimum period required.

8. Your Data Rights

Depending on where you live and the laws that apply to you, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. These may include the right to:

  • Request access to the personal information we hold about you.
  • Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.
  • Request deletion of your account or personal information.
  • Request restrictions on certain processing of your information.
  • Object to certain uses of your information.
  • Request a copy of certain information in a portable format, where applicable.
  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
  • Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. In Nigeria, this is the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC). If you are in the EU or UK, you may complain to your local data protection authority.

To exercise applicable rights or ask questions about your information, contact us at:

mylearningb@gmail.com

We will respond to valid requests within the timeframe required by applicable law (generally 30 days, extendable where permitted).

9. Account and Data Deletion

You can delete your account directly within the myLB application. Go to Settings → Account → Delete Account and follow the prompts.

When you request deletion in the app:

  • We will ask you to confirm your choice.
  • Your account will be deactivated immediately and you will be signed out of all devices.
  • Your account information, study content, and learning data will be deleted within 30 days.
  • Data in encrypted backups will be overwritten within 90 days in the normal course of operations.
  • We will retain only information we are legally required or permitted to retain, such as records needed for tax, fraud prevention, or legal compliance.

You may also request deletion by emailing mylearningb@gmail.com from the email address associated with your account. We will verify your identity before acting.

Some information may remain temporarily in backups or records until those systems are routinely overwritten or the information is no longer required.

10. Children's Privacy

myLB is intended for users aged 13 and older. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

Where a user is under 18 or otherwise below the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, we process their information only as necessary to provide the learning features they request, and we may require verifiable parental or guardian consent where required by applicable law.

Under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, a child is any person under the age of 18, and parental or guardian consent is required for processing a child's personal data except in limited circumstances permitted by law.

If you believe that a child under 13 has provided personal information to us, or that we have collected information from a child in a manner that violates applicable law, please contact us at:

mylearningb@gmail.com

We will review the request and take appropriate action, which may include deletion of the information and closure of the account.

11. Cookies and Similar Technologies

The myLB mobile application may use technologies such as device identifiers, local storage, analytics tools, or similar technologies where necessary to operate, secure, understand, and improve the application.

If our use of these technologies changes materially, we may update this Privacy Policy or provide additional notices where required.

12. Third-Party Services and Links

myLB may use or interact with third-party services to provide certain functionality. These include AI processing providers, cloud infrastructure and storage providers, authentication services, analytics providers, and app stores.

Third-party services operate under their own privacy policies and terms. We encourage you to review the privacy practices of any third-party service you interact with.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party services that we do not control.

13. International Data Processing

Depending on where you live and where our service providers operate, your information may be processed or stored in countries other than your country of residence.

In particular, content you submit to AI-powered features is processed by DeepSeek in the People's Republic of China.

Where required by applicable law, we take appropriate measures to provide protection for your information when it is transferred internationally.

Under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, such transfers may be made where the destination country is recognised by the NDPC as providing adequate protection, or where an approved Cross-Border Data Transfer Instrument (such as Standard Contractual Clauses) is in place, or where a recognised exception applies.

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to myLB, our practices, third-party services, or applicable legal requirements.

When we make changes, we will update the Effective Date at the top of this Privacy Policy and, where appropriate, provide additional notice.

We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information about our privacy practices.

15. Contact Us

If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or your personal information, please contact us at:

Email: mylearningb@gmail.com