Data ownership
Your data is yours
Estate records have to outlive any single platform — including ours. Here's how we keep your data accessible, recoverable, and ultimately yours.
Software platforms come and go. Estates persist for decades — across multiple EXCO administrations, multiple chairs, multiple generations of residents.
That asymmetry shapes how we think about your data. The records your estate creates on MyEstates have to be useful to you not just today, but in a future where we may or may not still exist.
Export everything, anytime
Your data is exportable, and you don't need to ask permission. Invoices, payments, and member rosters can be downloaded in bulk from the chair/treasurer dashboard. Audit log entries are reviewable through the audit-log viewer.
No request forms, no support tickets, no waiting on us. The export is built into the platform; you decide when to run it.
We back up daily
Your estate's data is backed up every day. If something goes catastrophically wrong on our side — a botched database migration, a hardware failure, anything — we can restore from a recent backup.
We treat backups as operational infrastructure, not a marketing claim. They run automatically; they're tested regularly; they're stored separately from the primary database.
Data isolation at the database layer
Your estate's data is isolated by Row-Level Security policies enforced inside the database itself — not just by application code. One estate cannot see another estate's records, even hypothetically.
We can't accidentally show your data to the wrong estate; the database itself prevents it.
What if MyEstates disappears?
It's a fair question — and one Nigerian estate chairs are right to ask of any new platform handling estate finances.
Our answer: your records are yours. You can export everything, anytime. If we ever cease operations, you walk away with a complete history of every invoice and payment your estate has processed — in formats your accountant, your next chair, or your audit committee can use.
We're not a custodian of your data. We're a tool you use, on terms you can verify, with an exit you can take whenever you want.
The principle, plainly:
You own your estate's records. We're the tool that helps you create and manage them, not the custodian who controls them.
Bring clarity to your estate's finances.
Apply in a few minutes. Once we've reviewed your estate, we'll be in touch to set everything up.