Privacy Policy

1. About this Policy

EcoTech Africa is powered by EcoDrop BioTech (Pty) Ltd. We respect your privacy and aim to handle personal and business information responsibly.

2. Information We May Collect

• Name and surname.
• Email address and login details.
• Country, industry and participation interests.
• Business Profile information.
• Publisher and contributor information.
• CloudFeed applications, messages and opportunity interests.
• Representative programme information.
• Website usage data and analytics information.

3. How We Use Information

We use information to operate and improve EcoTech Africa, including:

• Creating and managing user accounts.
• Displaying Business Profiles and contributor information.
• Publishing stories and articles.
• Matching members with CloudFeed opportunities.
• Supporting country participation and representative programmes.
• Sending relevant platform notices and updates.
• Improving platform security, performance and user experience.

4. Public Information

Some information may be publicly visible, including Business Profiles, published stories, author names, countries, industries, profile links and selected representative information.

Please do not submit information to public areas of EcoTech Africa that you do not want to be visible.

5. CloudFeed and Applications

CloudFeed may use your country, interests, industry tags, applications and participation activity to recommend relevant opportunities.

When you apply or express interest in an opportunity, your submitted message and profile information may be shared with the relevant opportunity owner.

6. Country Representatives

Country Representative information may include your name, country, organisation, representative email, role, participation status and relevant public profile details.

Representative information may be used to support country participation, onboarding, training, communication and ecosystem development.

7. Analytics and Cookies

EcoTech Africa may use analytics tools, cookies or similar technologies to understand traffic, page views, countries, device types and platform usage.

This helps us improve the platform, measure participation and identify which areas of the ecosystem are growing.

8. Payments

Payments may be processed by third-party payment providers such as PayFast. EcoTech Africa does not store full card details on its platform.

Payment providers may process payment information according to their own privacy and legal policies.

9. Sharing of Information

We do not sell personal information. Information may be shared where necessary to:

• Operate the platform.
• Process payments.
• Support CloudFeed applications.
• Respond to legal or security requirements.
• Provide representative onboarding and communication.

10. Data Security

We take reasonable steps to protect user information. However, no online system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

11. Your Responsibility

Users are responsible for keeping login details secure and for ensuring that information submitted to EcoTech Africa is accurate and authorised.

12. Contact

For privacy-related questions, contact: