Privacy notice

Wasabih is the professional platform of the global Halal economy: a directory of trade events, professionals and organisations, with introductions between members. Wasabih is the controller of your personal data.

For any privacy question or request, write to contact@wasabih.com.

When you create an account or sign in

• Your email address. We sign you in with a one-time code; we do not use or store passwords.
• The answers you give when you join: industries, markets and what you are looking for.

Your profile, if you fill it in

• Name, photo, headline, short bio, professional role, organisation, city and country.
• Industries you work in or are interested in, experience, education, causes you care about, your LinkedIn address.
• A phone number, if you add one. Your email and phone are never shown publicly (see section 4).

What you do on Wasabih

• Events you mark as interested in, attending, exhibiting at or sponsoring; saved searches and followed industries.
• Organisations you create, claim or join, and your role in them.
• Introduction requests you send or receive, including the short message you write, and whether they were accepted.
• Events you submit, including any website, poster image or text you give us to fill in the listing.
• Members you block and reports you make, so we can keep the community safe.
• A record of important actions (for example a claim, a role change or a moderation decision) for security and audit.

Technical data

• The cookies described in section 9.
• Event page statistics: we count views and clicks to organisers' websites with the visitor's country only. We do not store IP addresses or browser details for these counts and use no advertising or analytics trackers.
• Our hosting provider keeps standard server logs for a short period to run and secure the service.

From other sources

• The previous Wasabih directory. If you had a profile on the earlier version of Wasabih, we moved it to this platform. It stays private until you sign in and choose who can see it (see section 5).
• Public event information. We collect event details from organisers' public websites and calendars. This can include the business contact details organisers publish for their event, which we may use to invite them to confirm or update their listing.

You choose your profile's visibility in your settings, and you can change it at any time:

• Public: anyone can see your profile, and search engines can list it.
• Members only: only signed-in Wasabih members can see it.
• Private: nobody else can see it, and you are not suggested to other members.

Whatever you choose:

• Your email address and phone number are never shown publicly. They are shown only to signed-in members, and only if you switch on “show my contact details”.
• Events you attend appear on your profile only if you switch this on.
• Organisers see how many people are interested in their event, never who.
• When you request an introduction, the other member sees your name, profile and message, and decides whether to accept. Nothing more is shared unless they accept.
• Members you block cannot send you introduction requests, and you are no longer suggested to each other.

We moved the directory of the earlier Wasabih platform (profiles, organisations and their links) to this new platform. We did not move passwords. Imported profiles are private: they are not shown, searched or suggested to anyone.

We may send you up to three emails inviting you to sign in with your email address. When you do, you review your details and decide whether your profile becomes public, visible to members only, or stays private. If you do nothing, it stays private. To have it deleted instead, or to stop the emails, use the unsubscribe link or write to contact@wasabih.com.

We do not sell your personal data or share it for advertising. These providers process data for us, under contract and only to run the service:

We may also disclose data when the law requires it, to protect people's safety or our rights, or to a successor if Wasabih is reorganised or acquired, in which case this notice continues to apply.

Some providers above are in the United States. Where data protection law requires it, transfers rely on adequacy decisions or the standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission and the United Kingdom, as offered by those providers.

• Your account and profile: as long as your account exists. When you ask us to delete it, we delete it within 30 days.
• Sign-in codes: valid for one hour and single use.
• Imported profiles that are never claimed: kept private, and deleted on request at any time.
• Unsubscribe choices: kept so we never email you again after you opt out.
• Security, moderation and audit records: kept as long as needed to protect the platform and meet legal obligations; when an account is deleted, its records no longer point to it.
• Event view counts: kept as anonymous statistics.

We use only a few cookies, and none for advertising or third-party analytics:

Your browser also keeps a short-lived note of which event pages you have viewed in this tab, so a reload is not counted twice. It is deleted when you close the tab.

Depending on where you live, you can:

• access your data and get a copy of it;
• correct it (most of it you can edit yourself in your profile);
• delete your account and data;
• object to, or ask us to restrict, how we use it, including for the invitation emails;
• receive your data in a portable format;
• withdraw your consent at any time, for example by unsubscribing from emails.

Write to contact@wasabih.com from the address linked to your account. We answer within one month. If you are not satisfied, you can complain to your local data protection authority.

Data is encrypted in transit, access is restricted by role, sign-in uses one-time codes instead of passwords, and we remove location data from photos you upload. No system is perfectly secure; if a breach affects you, we will tell you and the authorities as the law requires.

Wasabih is a professional platform and is not meant for anyone under 16. If we learn that we hold data about a child, we delete it.

We will update this page when our practices change and show the date at the top. If a change matters for you, we will tell you by email or on the platform before it applies.