PayPrivacy policy
PayZuri is a point of sale for shops. A shop's sales, stock and customer details belong to the shop. We keep them safe so the shop can run, and we don't sell them or use them for advertising.
Who we are
PayZuri is built and run by Etienne Maway in Uganda. For anything about your data, message or call us on WhatsApp at +256 758 092 320.
This website
- No cookies, no analytics and no advertising trackers.
- Your choice of language and light or dark mode is saved in your own browser so the page remembers it. It never reaches us.
- Fonts and images are served from this site, so visiting it doesn't send your details to other companies.
- If you contact us on WhatsApp, the message goes through WhatsApp (Meta) under its own privacy policy. We keep the conversation only to answer you and set up your shop.
The PayZuri app: what a shop stores in it
- Shop details: name, address, phone number, logo, currency and the Mobile Money numbers customers pay into.
- Staff: names, roles and an optional phone number. Sign-in PINs and passwords are never stored as they are typed: only as one-way Argon2id hashes, which can't be turned back into the PIN.
- Products and stock: items, prices, barcodes and every stock movement, with who made it and when.
- Sales and payments: what was sold, at what price, how it was paid, the Mobile Money transaction reference and, if the cashier enters it, the customer's phone number.
- Records for the owner: a log of sensitive actions such as discounts, price changes, stock adjustments and staff changes, and the name of each device the shop has registered.
We use this only to run the service for that shop: completing sales, keeping stock right, syncing devices, making reports and backups, and helping when the shop asks for support.
Where it is kept
- On our server, reached only over an encrypted connection (HTTPS).
- In encrypted backups made every night and stored off the server, so a shop's records survive a hardware failure. Backups are kept for up to 30 days, plus one per month for up to 12 months.
- On the shop's own devices, so they can keep selling when the internet is down. These copies are sent to the server when the connection returns.
Who can see it
- The shop's owner, and staff according to the role the owner gives them. Each shop is kept separate from every other shop.
- We can access it only to run, fix or support the service.
- Companies that host our server and store our backups hold the encrypted data for us and may not use it for anything else.
- We share data with authorities only when Ugandan law requires it.
We never sell personal data. We don't write PINs, login tokens, payment secrets or full phone numbers into our system logs.
How long we keep it
For as long as the shop uses PayZuri. When a shop stops, we give the owner a copy of their data if they ask, then delete it from our server within 90 days. Copies in backups disappear as those backups expire, within 12 months at most.
Your choices
A shop owner can ask us for a copy of the shop's data, to correct it, or to delete it. A customer or staff member whose details a shop recorded can ask that shop, or ask us and we will help the shop answer. We follow Uganda's Data Protection and Privacy Act, 2019. Contact us on WhatsApp at +256 758 092 320.
Children
PayZuri is a tool for businesses and isn't meant to be used by children.
Changes
If we change this policy we will update the date above, and tell shop owners directly about any important change before it takes effect.