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Privacy and your data

What we hold, and who can see it.

We ask for commercially sensitive material: accounts, models, land titles, beneficial ownership. This page says plainly what happens to it. If anything here is not clear enough for your legal team, write to us and we will answer properly.

Last reviewed 1 October 2026.

What we collect

Three things, and nothing else.

  • What you tell us about an opportunity: the nine sections of the submission form, and the documents you attach to support it.
  • What we need to run an account: your name, work email address, job title, organisation, and a record of when you signed in.
  • What we record about decisions: who looked at what, when, what they concluded and why. This is the audit trail, and it is the point of the platform.

Why we hold it

To screen an opportunity, to verify the evidence behind it, and to put it in front of investors whose stated mandate it fits. We do not use it to train anything, we do not sell it, and we do not share it with anyone you have not been told about.

Who can see it

  • Your own organisation sees everything it submitted, and nothing another organisation submitted.
  • Our review team sees a submission once it is sent. A draft you have not submitted is yours alone, and we cannot see it.
  • An investor sees an opportunity only because a deal manager named them, at a level we chose, until a date we set. There is no browsable list and no public listing. Every release is logged and can be withdrawn.
  • An investor at teaser level sees no documents and no organisation name at all.

Your declarations

The five declarations on the submission form are legal statements. Each is recorded individually with your name, the time, and the address you signed it from. Only someone at the organisation that owns the submission can sign or withdraw them.

Documents

Files go to encrypted storage and are never served directly. Every download is a short-lived link issued only after we have re-checked that the person asking still has access to that deal. A file attached to an investor's release stays the version they were shared, even after a newer profile is approved.

How long we keep it

  • An active opportunity, and its audit trail, for as long as the record is live.
  • A closed opportunity for seven years, because the record of what was checked is the thing that has to outlast the deal.
  • An access request that we decline, for twelve months, so we do not lose track of who we have already spoken to.
  • Sign-in records for twelve months.

What you can ask for

A copy of everything we hold about you, a correction, or deletion. Deletion is limited in one way worth stating: we cannot remove an audit entry about a decision that was made, because a record that can be edited afterwards is not a record. We can anonymise who you are within it.

Security

  • Two-step sign-in is required on every account.
  • Authorising acts, signing off a verification, approving a profile, authorising an introduction, need the person to re-authenticate at the moment they do it.
  • Nobody signs off evidence checks they recorded themselves.
  • Sessions end when a role changes, so a permission you no longer have stops working immediately.

What verification is not

Verification on this platform records the scope of checks completed. It is never a guarantee of the investment, the valuation or the returns. Where something could not be confirmed, that is recorded and investors see it. Diligence remains the investor's own.

Asking us something

Write to privacy@impactafrica.business and a person will answer. If you are deciding whether to submit something and want this in a form your legal team can review, say so and we will send it.

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