This policy explains what Furst Solutions (Pty) Ltd (registration number 2021/557066/07), of Nr 38 The River Hamlet, Gie Road, Milnerton, Western Cape, 7441, South Africa ("Anton", "we", "us"), collects when you use the Anton app, and what we do with it. It is written to South Africa's Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA). We are the responsible party for your personal information.
Our Information Officer is the director of Furst Solutions (Pty) Ltd, contactable at anton@spartacusv4.tech or on the Contact page.
| Data | Why |
|---|---|
| Email address & password (hashed, never stored in plain text) | Sign-in, password reset, account emails |
| Date of birth | Checking you're old enough (16+), and whether a parent/guardian needs to consent (under 18) |
| For under-18 accounts: a parent or guardian's name and email, and a record that they consented | Meeting POPIA's rule on processing a child's information |
| Language and voice preferences | Runs the app the way you've set it up |
| Sentences, translations, custom notes, photos, audio recordings you create | This is the product — your own card collection |
| Usage counts (how many AI generations this month/today) | Enforcing plan limits fairly |
| Subscription status, plan, renewal date | Knowing what you're entitled to |
| IP address, briefly, on login/password-reset attempts | Rate-limiting abuse, nothing else |
We do not collect payment card details. PayFast handles those directly — we only ever receive a payment reference and status, never a card number.
We use a small number of other companies (operators, in POPIA's terms) to run the Service. Each is bound by an agreement to process your information only on our instructions and to keep it secure, and each only gets what it needs:
We don't sell personal information, and we don't use advertising trackers on this site.
Anton's database and your uploaded audio and photos are stored on our hosting provider's server. OpenAI, Google, PayFast and our email provider process data outside South Africa. POPIA allows this where the transfer is necessary to provide the service you've asked for, and by using Anton you agree to it. Each of these providers is an established company subject to its own data-protection obligations, and our agreement with each requires an adequate level of protection.
Your cards, audio, photos and account details are kept for as long as your account exists, and are deleted when your account is deleted. Payment and tax records are kept for five years afterwards, as South African tax law requires. Brief login/reset IP logs are kept for a few days.
Passwords are hashed, never stored in plain text. Payment and mail provider credentials are encrypted at rest. The site runs over HTTPS. No system is perfectly secure, but this is a small, deliberately simple app with a small attack surface, not a sprawling one.
Under POPIA, you can:
You can edit your name and account details yourself in Settings. To get a copy of everything we hold about you, or to have your account and its data deleted, email us (see below) and we'll do it within a reasonable time, normally within 30 days. There's no charge for a reasonable request.
We use one session cookie to keep you signed in. That's it — no advertising or tracking cookies.
Anton is for people aged 16 and older. We don't accept sign-ups from anyone under 16.
Under South African law anyone under 18 is a child, and POPIA does not let us process a child's personal information without a parent or legal guardian's consent. So if the date of birth you give at sign-up is under 18, your account is created but held inactive: you can't create cards, use any AI feature, or open the lessons until consent is confirmed. You're asked for a parent or guardian's name and email address, we email them an explanation of what Anton collects and does, and they confirm by clicking a one-time link. We record that a named person consented, when, and from what IP address — that record is kept for as long as the account exists, as evidence the consent was given.
A parent or guardian can withdraw consent at any time by emailing us (see the Contact page); we then delete the account and its data. Consent given while the account holder was under 18 does not need to be renewed when they turn 18.
If this changes materially, we'll say so by email or in-app notice before the change takes effect.
Questions, or to exercise any of the rights above — email anton@spartacusv4.tech, or write to Furst Solutions (Pty) Ltd, Nr 38 The River Hamlet, Gie Road, Milnerton, Western Cape, 7441, South Africa. See the Contact page for all our details.
If you're not satisfied with how we've handled your information, you can complain to the Information Regulator: inforegulator.org.za, complaints.IR@inforegulator.org.za.