← HamantehPrivacy notice
Last updated: 2026-05-02
Who we are
Hamanteh — Banjul South Oral History is a community archive run by Dundal Systems based in The Gambia. We record and preserve the oral histories of families in Banjul South.
What we collect
- Submissions you provide: family name, neighbourhood, story text, photos, audio recordings, the names + roles of people in your story, your contact details (email, phone) if you share them.
- Consent records: a timestamped log of which permissions you granted, with your IP address and browser user-agent, so we can prove your consent if asked.
- Analytics: aggregate page views, audio plays, search terms — used to understand which stories the community engages with. IPs are hashed before storage; we never store the raw IP for analytics.
What we do with it
- Recordings, transcripts, and family entries are made public on this site only with explicit consent (the "Public archive use" checkbox at submission).
- Anonymised transcript text may be included in an AI training corpus only if you ticked "AI corpus use".
- Your contact details are used to follow up on your submission and never shared.
- We do not sell, rent, or trade any personal information.
Your rights
- Access: ask us for a copy of everything we hold about your family.
- Correction: ask us to fix wrong information.
- Removal: ask us to remove your family's entry from the public archive at any time. We will export everything we have to you first, then purge it from production. See Terms for the takedown procedure.
- Withdraw consent: revoke any optional consent you previously gave (e.g., remove from AI corpus while keeping the public entry).
Retention
- Submissions: kept indefinitely once approved (that's the point of an archive).
- In-progress submissions: deleted after 90 days if not finalised.
- Analytics events: 90 days of raw events, then aggregate-only.
- Audit logs: 2 years.
- Backups: rolling 30 daily + 12 weekly + 12 monthly.
Where data lives
Data is stored in DigitalOcean's NYC region (managed Postgres + Spaces object storage). Audio originals also exist in the project's source Google Drive folder.