1. Who we are

Mamawise is made by Meraki IT, a South Africa-based software studio. This policy covers the Mamawise mobile app and this website (mamawise.care). If you have questions about this policy, contact us at amanda@meraki-it.co.za.

2. What Mamawise stores, and where

Mamawise does not have a backend server. There is nothing for the app to send data to, even if it wanted to. Everything you enter is stored locally, on your device, using standard on-device storage:

What	Where it's stored
Your profile (e.g. due date, last period, or a clinic estimate)	An on-device database (WatermelonDB / SQLite)
Check-in answers, symptom & mood logs, danger-sign history	The same on-device database
Reminders you've set or that the app generated for you	The same on-device database
App settings (language, discreet mode, etc.)	On-device app storage (AsyncStorage)
Your PIN, if you set one	Your device's secure hardware-backed storage (never stored as plain text, and never leaves your device)

None of this is transmitted anywhere. It is not backed up to a Meraki IT server, because no such server exists for app data.

3. Accounts

Mamawise does not require you to create an account, and does not ask for your name, email address, or phone number to use the app.

4. Notifications

Reminder notifications (for example, for an upcoming antenatal visit) are scheduled and delivered entirely on your device, based on dates you enter. They are not sent from a server, and Mamawise is not notified when you receive or dismiss one.

5. Sharing your information

Mamawise includes a setting called "share with clinic," intended for a future version that would let you choose to share check-in results with a health worker. As of this version, that setting is a placeholder only — turning it on or off changes nothing, and nothing is transmitted. Nothing leaves your device today.

If you use the app's export or "share" feature to save or send your data yourself (for example, by email or messaging app), that happens through your phone's own share function, at your instruction. Mamawise does not control or see where that information goes once you've chosen a destination — the same as sharing any other file from your phone.

6. Analytics, advertising, and third parties

Mamawise does not include advertising, third-party analytics, or trackers of any kind. We do not know how many people use the app, how they use it, or who they are, beyond what a store listing (like Google Play) may tell us in aggregate.

This website, mamawise.care, similarly does not use cookies, analytics, or tracking scripts. We only receive information you choose to send us directly — for example, by emailing us.

7. Data deletion

Because everything is stored on your device, you're always in control of it. Uninstalling the app permanently deletes all of its locally stored data from your phone. There is nothing further for us to delete on our end, because we never received a copy.

8. Children's privacy

Mamawise is designed for pregnant and postpartum women and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect information from children, and — per the sections above — we do not collect personal information from any user, of any age.

9. A note on data protection law

Laws like South Africa's Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) and the EU's GDPR generally regulate organisations that collect, store, or process other people's personal data. Because Mamawise does not transmit your data to Meraki IT or anyone else, most of those obligations have limited application to how the app itself works — we're describing our actual practices above for transparency, not asserting a particular legal status. If you have questions about how this applies to your situation, we'd encourage you to seek independent legal advice.

10. Changes to this policy

If Mamawise changes what it stores or how — for example, if a future version adds an optional clinic-sharing feature — we'll update this page and change the "last updated" date above before that feature becomes active.

11. Contact us

Questions about this policy or how Mamawise handles information can be sent to amanda@meraki-it.co.za.