Legacify is run by Legacy Lab NG. It exists so that Nigerian families can hold their own lineage rather than lose it. That only works if a family trusts us with names, dates, photographs and stories, so this page says plainly what we hold, who can see it and how to get it back out.

We do not sell anything held here. We do not advertise against it. We do not hand a family's records to anybody outside that family except where the law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria requires it, and we will tell the family's Head Admin when that happens unless we are forbidden from doing so.

When you sign in. Legacify signs you in with Google. We ask Google for three things and no more: that you are signed in, your email address, and your name. We store the email address and the name. That is the whole account record.

We never see or receive your Google password. We do not ask for and cannot read your Gmail, your contacts, your Drive, your calendar or your photos. We do not store your Google profile picture. You can check this yourself at any time in your Google account under Security, then Your connections to third party apps.

If you filled the testing form. During the test period we also hold what you typed on the join page: your name, your Gmail address, and, only if you chose to give them, your family name, your home town and a phone number. That record exists so we can let you in and write to you once to ask what you thought. It is kept as a record of who tested the platform and is not used for anything else. Write to us if you want it removed.

A sign-in cookie. One cookie keeps you signed in between pages. It is not used to follow you around the internet. There are no advertising cookies and no third party trackers on this site.

This is the heart of the platform and it needs saying carefully. A family records information about its own people, living and dead. That can include a person's name and the other names they are known by, whether the name is remembered at all, gender, whether they are living, dates or approximate periods of birth and death, birthplace, marriages, who their parents and children are, photographs, documents, audio and video, captions on those, written notes and stories, life events and notable dates.

Somebody can therefore appear on Legacify without ever having signed up. That is what a family tree is. If you find yourself recorded in a family archive and you want it corrected, restricted or removed, write to us at the address below and we will act on it. You do not need an account to make that request and we will not charge you for it.

Every family archive starts private. Nothing is public unless the family's Head Admin makes it so. Signing in does not let you see anybody else's family. You see a family's records because that family admitted you, and the family's Head Admin can remove you again.

Views of photographs and documents are logged. Where a Legacy Lab NG administrator has to look at a family's records to fix a problem, that access is logged too, against their name and the reason. Those logs exist so that a family can ask who looked at what, and get a real answer.

Legacify Family Tree was tested until 1 October 2026. Every person, date and relationship entered during the test was generated for testing or added by testers as practice, and all of it was cleared at the end of the test. The family names kept on the platform belong to real families of Ọ̀rún-Èkìtì who are recording now.

What is recorded from 1 October 2026 is a real family record and is kept, under the rules on this page.

A family archive is meant to outlive the people in it, so the default is that we keep it. An archive that goes untouched for a long time gets a notice to the family's Head Admin first, and is only taken offline after that notice has gone unanswered. Nothing is destroyed on a timer, and nothing is destroyed without a person deciding to destroy it.

Backups exist so that a family does not lose decades of recording to one accident. A record you delete disappears from the platform at once, and leaves the backups as those backups age out.

The Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 applies to us. Under it you can ask what we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected, ask for a copy of it, ask us to stop using it, and ask for it to be erased. You can withdraw consent at any time, and you can complain to the Nigeria Data Protection Commission if you are not satisfied with how we answered.

Write to hello@legacylab.ng, or use the contact form and choose the data option. Say what you want. We aim to answer within seven days and to finish within thirty. If the request is about a record inside a family's archive, we will normally need to involve the Head Admin of that family, and we will tell you that we are doing so.

Legacify runs on hosting and database services outside Nigeria, so a family's records are stored abroad and transferred across borders in the ordinary course of running the platform. We use Google for sign in only, and Brevo to send the few emails the platform sends. These providers act on our instructions. None of them is permitted to use a family's records for their own purposes.

Accounts are for adults. Children appear in family trees, because that is what families are, and a child's record is entered and controlled by the adults of that family. If you are the parent or guardian of a child recorded here and you want that record changed or removed, write to us and we will act on it.

If this changes in a way that affects what we hold or who can see it, we will say so on this page and date it. The date at the top is the real one.