Terms of Use

You must be at least 18 years old. By creating an account you confirm that you are able to enter into a binding agreement.

NIDEA is for private, lawful communication. You agree not to:

• harass anyone, commit fraud, pretend to be someone else, or send spam;
• share content that breaks Nigerian law, exploits children, or spreads sexual images of someone without their consent;
• try to get around, switch off or alter the app’s security or encryption.

What you send is yours. Because messages are end-to-end encrypted, Netgrawl does not see, monitor or moderate the content of private chats, and you are responsible for what you share. How we handle your data is set out in the Privacy Policy.

An @username is a licence you can lose, not property. Netgrawl may take back a username used to impersonate someone, that infringes a trademark, or that has been inactive for a long time.

NIDEA is free to use and has no ads. Optional Premium plans are described on the Premium page. Netgrawl may change the service, add optional features or update these terms, and will tell you in the app first.

• Premium is optional and is bought on the NIDEA website. Payments are handled by Paystack; Netgrawl never sees your card number.
• There is no free trial of Premium: you pay when you start, and you see the price before you pay. Monthly and yearly plans renew until you cancel, and we email you 2 days before each renewal.
• A six-month offer is paid once, does not renew, and can be used once per person. We tell you a week before it ends.
• If you cancel, you keep Premium to the end of the period you paid for.
• If a renewal fails you have a short grace period to fix it before Premium features pause. Your chats and everything free stay as they are.
• Hush chats are Premium to start; anyone can receive them. Hush chats are not backed up, and we cannot bring one back.
• Billing through an app store may be added later, and these terms will say so first.

• Hush is built to protect your privacy. It cannot promise more than a phone can do: no app can stop someone photographing a screen with another camera, which is why your alias matters.
• Hush works as described on an unmodified NIDEA app. A modified app can ignore the rules.
• Some keyboards and accessibility tools can see what is typed. Switching off copy and paste does not stop that.
• The Hush PIN keeps messages blurred from a casual look at your screen. It does not stop another phone filming the screen after you reveal a message. If you forget the PIN, ending your open Hush chats resets it.
• The earpiece rule for Hush calls is a safeguard against casual loudspeaker use. A phone cannot tell what is plugged into it.
• Calls, Hush calls included, are encrypted on their way through our servers but are not end-to-end encrypted like messages. They are never recorded or stored.
• We keep a short record that a Hush chat took place (who asked, when it was accepted, when it ended), never what was said or the aliases. A Hush chat cannot be reviewed if reported: you can block the person and report them in the normal way.
• The person you Hush with knows who they invited.

These terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Disputes are for the courts in Abuja, Nigeria.