Mensha Ventures (collectively “[Mensha Ventures]”, “we” or “us”) values your security and privacy. Mensha Ventures is required to comply with DIFC Authority’s Data Protection Law, DIFC Law No. 5 of 2020 (the “DP Law”), and may for certain types of personal data processing, be subject to laws from other jurisdictions.

As such, it is the policy of Mensha Ventures to respect the privacy of its website services in accordance with DIFC DP Law

This online data protection policy (the “Policy”) sets out the basis on which any information, including any personal data, we collect from you, or you provide to us, will be processed by Mensha Ventures. Each time you access or use the Website Services or provide us with information, by doing so you acknowledge the practices described in this Policy.

1- Scope and Application

This Policy applies to persons anywhere in the world who access or use Mensha Ventures’ Website Services.

2- Collection of Information 

Information you give us

This is personal data you give us by corresponding with us (for example, by telephone, e-mail, website or any other digital or electronic form). It includes for example information you provide when you contact us or use our services.

If you contact us, we will keep at least an electronic record of such correspondence, including personal information shared at that time, in order to reply or process it as per your request. The personal information you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number, residential building, work address, photograph, and other information you choose to provide (“Personal Information” or “Personal Data”).

3- Processing, Storage and Transfer of Personal Data 

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure your Personal Data is processed fairly and lawfully, in accordance with the DP Law, other applicable laws and this Policy. By sharing your Personal Data, we expect you to understand that such transfer, storing or processing in order for Mensha Ventures to perform its general administrative functions is necessary and will be done in a proportionate, lawful manner.

In order to conduct our operations or fulfil regulatory obligations, we may transfer the Personal Data described in this Policy to and from, and process and store it in, the United Arab Emirates and (where applicable or required) with processors in other countries, some of which may have less protective privacy laws than those where you reside. In all such cases, and generally for any processing operations, we take appropriate security measures to protect your Personal Data in accordance with this Policy.

Mensha Ventures is not responsible for the accuracy of the information you provide and will modify or update your Personal Data in our databases when you provide updated information or ad hoc upon your request, as further outlined below. We will erase or put beyond active use your Personal Data upon request, unless we are required to retain it in accordance with DIFC or other applicable laws or to perform agreed services, in which case we align with applicable principles such as purpose specification and data minimization.

If it is not disproportionate or prejudicial, and required beyond this policy’s notices, we will contact you to let you know we are processing your personal information.

4- Sharing of Personal Data

We may share Personal Data which we collect about you as described in this Policy or as described at the time of collection or sharing, including as follows:

In response to a request for information by a competent authority or government entities if we determine that such disclosure is in accordance with, or is otherwise required by any applicable law, regulation, or legal process;

With law enforcement officials, government entities or authorities, or other third parties as required by applicable law;

With third parties in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, consolidation or restructuring, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by or into another company; or

With third parties in an aggregated and/or anonymized or pseudonymized form that cannot reasonably be used to identify you

Government Data Sharing

In some circumstances we are legally obliged to share information with public authorities or law enforcement. For example, we may be required to provide information related to a court order or where we must cooperate with supervisory authorities in handling complaints or investigations. In any scenario, we’ll attempt to satisfy ourselves that we have a lawful basis on which to share the information, document our decision making, and satisfy ourselves we have a legal basis on which to share the information.

5- Your Rights and Choices

Marketing and Preferences

Mensha Ventures supports Users’ legal rights to opt-in or subsequently opt-out of receiving communications from us. You have the option to ask us not to process your Personal Data for marketing purposes and to remove it from our database, to not receive future communications.

You may change your preferences at any time.

Please note that we may continue to send you transactional or service-related e-mails despite your desire to not receive promotional or marketing e-mail messages.

Access to and Correction of Your Personal Information

You have the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised for any reason, at any time, in accordance with DIFC and other applicable laws.

You have the right to ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

You may also request that we restrict the processing of, erase, transfer the information you gave us from one organisation to another, or otherwise process your Personal Data in line with the relevant articles providing for such rights set out in the DP Law or other applicable laws.

Any access request generally comes at no cost to you and we must respond within one month unless provided otherwise by the DP Law or other applicable laws. We may, where permissible, impose a reasonable fee to meet any extraordinary administrative costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

When you contact us about a potential Personal Data error or query, we will endeavor to confirm or verify the information in question, then correct verified inaccuracies and respond to the original inquiry. We will endeavor to send a correction notice to businesses or others whom we know to have received the inaccurate data, where required and / or appropriate. However, some third parties and third party sites may continue to process inaccurate data about you until their databases and display of data are refreshed in accordance with their update schedules, or until you contact them personally to ensure the correction is made in their own files.

As set out in Article 39 on the DP Law, we may not discriminate against you for exercising your rights by denying services or changing prices or quality of service, unless reasonable to do so in general, as objectively determined, and applicable to all individuals offered or receiving such benefits.

6- Security Precautions

Mensha Ventures makes every effort to ensure that your Personal Data is secure on its system. Mensha Ventures has staff dedicated to maintaining our data protection and security policies, periodically reviewing them and making sure that Mensha Ventures employees are aware of our data protection and security practices. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, Mensha Ventures cannot warrant or guarantee the security of any Personal Data you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.

Mensha Ventures has established policies and procedures for securely managing information and protecting Personal Data against unauthorized access. We continually assess our data privacy, information management and security practices. We do this in the following ways:

Establishing policies and procedures for securely managing information;

Limiting employee access to viewing only necessary information in order to perform his or her duties;

Protecting against unauthorized access to Personal Data by using data encryption, authentication and virus detection technology, as required;

Requiring service providers with whom we do business to comply with relevant data privacy legal and regulatory requirements;

Engaging in regular third party audits of our policies and practices; and

Conducting background checks on employees and providing training to our employees.

If you have any further questions about our security and processing activities, please contact the Mensha Ventures team. To the extent permitted by applicable law, Mensha Ventures expressly disclaims any liability that may arise should any other third parties obtain the Personal Data you submit through fraud or otherwise where it is no fault of Mensha Ventures.

7- Buildings Security and Contents

Building security records containing sign in and sign out information collected at the time of visiting and departing Mensha Ventures offices will be maintained in accordance with this the applicable building management policy.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, Mensha Ventures is not responsible for any contents, whether or not they contain Personal data or other business information, that remain in our premises after you leave Mensha Ventures offices.

8- Changes to this Policy

Mensha Ventures may change this Policy from time to time and without notice. We encourage you to periodically review this Policy for the latest information on our privacy practices.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, comments and requests related to this Policy, or if you have any complaints related to how Mensha Ventures processes your personal data, please contact:

Email: [email protected]

You may also contact the DIFC Commissioner of Data Protection’s Office at:

Dubai International Financial Centre Authority
Level 14, The Gate Building
+971 4 362 2222
[email protected]