Privacy Policy.

Last Updated: 7 July 2025

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Beam Ventures Ltd. (“Beam Ventures”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) is a company incorporated in the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), United Arab Emirates. This Privacy Policy describes how we, acting as data controller, collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information when you access and interact with our website at https://beamventures.com/ (the “Website”).

This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) applies to all Personal Data (defined below) collected through the Website. We collect and use your Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Policy and in compliance with applicable data protection legislation, including but not limited to the ADGM Data Protection Regulations 2021, EU General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (“GDPR“) and EU Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive (2002/58/EC) where required.

1. Contact Details

The controller is Beam Ventures Ltd. Address: 14th Floor, Al Sarab Tower, ADGM Square, Al Maryah Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE. For any queries you can contact legal@beamventures.com. Please note that no Data Protection Officer (DPO) has been appointed as Beam Ventures does not engage in high-risk or large-scale processing.

2. How we process your Personal Data

Under ADGM DPR 2021, “Personal Data” refers to any information that can directly or indirectly identify a person. We do not intentionally collect data from children under 18 and we do not process special categories of personal data. Beam Ventures does not use automated decision-making or profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects on you.

We process your Personal Data according to the table outlined below:

Purpose of the processing	Category of Personal Data	Source of the Personal Data	Lawful basis for the processing	Data retention
Respond to your inquiries and requests	Identity and contact data (name, business email, phone, company, title) Feedback and correspondence Pitch decks	Your direct contact with us (e.g. from our contact page) Providing identity and contact data is voluntary, if you choose not to supply it we may be unable to respond to your enquiry or grant access to certain investor materials	Our legitimate interest to respond to your messages and run efficient client communication channels	3 years from last contact
Manage our client base	Our legitimate interest to respond to your messages and run efficient client communication channels Contract details	Your contractual relationship with us	Our contractual or pre-contractual relationship with you	Up to 7 years from the end of our contractual relationship (statutory requirement for compliance records).
Send e-mail communications including marketing and event invitations	Contact data (professional email) Marketing preferences (newsletter opt-in/opt-out status) How you engage with our communications	Your direct contact with us, Your contractual relationship with us, or Third parties including our PR partners or social media platforms	Our legitimate interest to promote our activities Marketing communications are only directed at professional clients	Until you opt-out
Comply with our legal and regulatory obligations	All of the above, as required	The Personal Data collected for the purposes described above	The respect of its legal obligations by Beam Ventures	Up to 7 years (statutory requirement for compliance records).
Enforce our rights including protect our, your or others' rights, privacy, safety, enforce our Terms of Use and protect, investigate and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity.	All of the above, as required	The Personal Data collected for the purposes described above	Our legitimate interest to enforce our rights and defend legal claims	until the expiry or foreclosure of any applicable statutory period
Anonymize your Personal Data	All of the above	The Personal Data collected for the purposes described above	Our legitimate business interests to create anonymous data including to analyze and improve the Website and promote our business	Retention periods are not applicable to anonymized data

3. How we share your Personal Data

With the exception of the provider(s) listed below, we do not make your Personal Data available to third parties unless you have expressly consented to it, if we are legally obligated to, or if this is necessary to enforce our rights concerning a contractual relationship.

To date, we disclose Personal Data to:

Service providers. We may share your Personal Information with third party companies and individuals that provide services on our behalf or help us operate the Website and run our activity (such as collaborators of Beam Ventures, PR firms, website hosting provider, IT support provider, email platforms, analytics provider).

Professional advisors. We may disclose your Personal Information to professional advisors, such as lawyers and auditors, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.

For compliance, fraud prevention and safety. We may share your Personal information as required for compliance (including AML-CT regulations), fraud prevention, and safety purposes described above.

4. International Data Transfers

If we transfer your data outside the UAE or an adequate jurisdiction (per the Commissioner’s adequacy list), we rely on standard contractual clauses or another lawful transfer mechanism. Copies of relevant safeguards can be obtained by e-mailing legal@beamventures.com.

5. Security Practices

We employ appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your stored Personal Data against manipulation, partial or complete loss, and unauthorized access by third parties of Personal Information we maintain. Unfortunately, data transmission over the internet cannot be guaranteed as completely secure. Please note that any data transmission on the internet is generally not secure or may be accessed by third parties, and we accept no liability for data transmitted to us via the internet.

6. Children

The Website is not intended for use by children under 18 years of age. If we learn that we have collected Personal Information through the Website from a child under 18 without the consent of the child’s parent or guardian as required by law, we will delete it.

7. Your Rights and Choices

Opt out of marketing communications. You may opt out of marketing-related emails by following the opt-out or unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of the email. You may continue to receive service-related and other non-marketing emails.

Data protection rights. To the extent permitted by applicable regulations, you may have the following rights:

To access the Personal Data we hold about you (including, if applicable, to receive it in a structured and commonly used machine-readable format);
To request we correct any inaccurate Personal Data we hold about you;
To request a copy of your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format;
To request we delete any Personal Data we hold about you;
To restrict the processing of Personal Data we hold about you;
To object to the processing of Personal Data we hold about you; and/or
To withdraw your consent to the processing of Personal Data we hold about you, when we have relied on consent as the legal basis to process your Personal Data.

Please note that, prior to any response to the exercise of such rights, we may require you to verify your identity. In addition, we may have valid legal reasons to refuse your request and will inform you if that is the case.

Notice to California Residents

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits individual California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of certain categories of personal information to third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us using the information in the “How to Contact Us” section below. This request may be made no more than once per calendar year.

If you are a California resident, you have certain additional rights with respect to your personal information pursuant to the CCPA.

We are required to inform you of:

What categories of information we may collect about you, including during the preceding 12 months: See the section above “Information Obtained”.
The purposes for which we may use your personal information, including during the preceding 12 months: See the section above “Use of Personal Information”.
The purposes for which we may share your personal information, including during the preceding 12 months: See the section above “Sharing of Personal Information”. In addition, we may share the following categories of information with the following parties:
- Identity information: Service providers such as KYC service providers.
- Contact information: Marketing partners and event partners.
- Financial information: Service providers such as payment service providers and logistics providers.
In the preceding 12 months, we have not sold any personal information of consumers.

You have the right to request to know: (i) the categories of personal information we have collected about you in the last 12 months; (ii) the specific pieces of personal information we have about you; (iii) the categories of sources from which that personal information was collected; (iv) the categories of your personal information that we sold or disclosed in the last 12 months; (v) the categories of third parties to whom your personal information was sold or disclosed in the last 12 months; and (vi) the purpose for collecting and selling your personal information. These rights are subject to limitations as described in the CCPA. We may deny your request if we need to do so to comply with our legal rights or obligations.

We will not discriminate against any consumer for exercising their CCPA rights.

You may exercise these rights yourself or you may designate an authorized agent to make these requests on your behalf. To protect your information, we may need to verify your identity before processing your request, including by collecting additional information to verify your identity, such as government issued identification documents. We will not fulfill your request unless you have provided sufficient information for us to reasonably verify you are the individual about whom we collected personal information. We will only use the personal information provided in the verification process to verify your identity or authority to make a request and to track and document request responses, unless you initially provided the information for another purpose. When we verify your agent’s request, we may verify your identity and request a signed document from your agent that authorizes your agent to make the request on your behalf. To protect your personal information, we reserve the right to deny a request from an agent that does not submit proof that they have been authorized by you to act on their behalf.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at the email in the “How to Contact Us” section below.

8. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by updating the date of this Privacy Policy and posting it on the Website. We may also provide notification of changes in another way that we believe is reasonably likely to reach you, such as via e-mail (if you have an account where we have your contact information) or another manner through the Website.

Any modifications to this Privacy Policy will be effective upon our posting the new terms and/or upon implementation of the new changes on the Website (or as otherwise indicated at the time of posting).

9. Your right to complain

If you have a concern about our privacy practices, including the way we handle your Personal Information, please contact us at: legal@beamventures.com. We will endeavor to respond to your complaint as soon as possible. You can also report it to your local data protection authority that is authorized to hear those concerns. Contact details for certain data protection authorities can be found using the links below:

For individuals in the UAE: https://u.ae/en/about-the-uae/digital-uae/data/data-protection-laws
For individuals in ADGM: https://www.adgm.com/operating-in-adgm/office-of-data-protection/
For individuals in the EEA: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en
For individuals in the UK: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/
For individuals in Switzerland: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/en/contact-2