Privacy Policy

ISAMEA Global (International Silicon of Asia, Middle East & Africa) operates a cross-regional innovation and business ecosystem connecting founders, investors, businesses, experts and institutions across Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

This policy applies to this website and to the services, programmes and member activities we operate.

Information you provide: name, email address, country, organisation, role, sector, market interests, professional background and any other details you submit through application or contact forms.

Information generated through participation: your ecosystem profile, programme participation, stated interests and mandates, and records of introductions made through ISAMEA Match.

Technical information: standard server and analytics data such as browser type, device type, approximate location and pages visited, used to operate and improve the site.

To review applications and determine whether ISAMEA is a fit for you.

To operate membership, incubation, market access, intelligence and matching services.

To make relevant introductions. Introductions through ISAMEA Match are made on a double opt-in basis: both parties see the rationale and agree before contact details are shared.

To send intelligence briefings, opportunity notifications and ecosystem updates relevant to your stated profile. You can opt out of these at any time.

To maintain the security, integrity and quality of the network.

We share your information with another ecosystem participant only where you have agreed to an introduction, or where you have made specific details part of a public-facing ecosystem profile.

We use service providers for hosting, email delivery and analytics. They process information on our behalf and under obligations of confidentiality.

We do not sell personal information. We do not share member lists with third parties for marketing purposes.

We may disclose information where required by applicable law or to protect the rights and safety of ISAMEA, our members or others.

ISAMEA operates across Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Your information may be processed in countries other than your own. Where this occurs, we take reasonable steps to ensure appropriate protection.

We retain application and member information for as long as your relationship with ISAMEA continues, and for a reasonable period afterwards for record-keeping and legal purposes. You may ask us to delete your information at any time, subject to any legal obligations we have to retain it.

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to the processing of your personal information, and to receive a copy of it in a portable format.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us through the Join ISAMEA form and mark your request clearly. We will respond within a reasonable period.

We apply reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information. No system is entirely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security of information transmitted over the internet.

We use essential cookies to operate the site and may use analytics cookies to understand how it is used. You can control cookies through your browser settings.

We may update this policy as our services develop. Material changes will be reflected on this page.

For any privacy question or request, contact ISAMEA Global through the Join ISAMEA form on this website.