Privacy and participation

Echoes Talent Directory Privacy and Participation Policy

Last updated: 20 August 2026

This policy explains how Echoes of the Wild, a business name under Okavango Gear (Pty) Ltd, collects, uses, publishes, shares, and manages information submitted to the Echoes Talent Directory.

This policy supplements the main Echoes of the Wild Privacy Policy available at www.echoesofthewild.co.bw/privacy-policy.

By submitting a profile to the Echoes Talent Directory, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to this policy.

1. Purpose of the Echoes Talent Directory

The Echoes Talent Directory is created to identify, showcase, promote, and connect creative talent across Botswana, Africa, and beyond.

The directory may be used by Echoes of the Wild for:

Submitting a profile does not guarantee selection, booking, payment, sponsorship, endorsement, or any opportunity from Echoes of the Wild or its partners.

2. Information We Collect

A Talent Directory submission may include:

We may also keep operational information needed to protect, verify, and run the directory, including:

3. How We Use the Information

Echoes of the Wild may use Talent Directory information to:

Email verification proves control of an address. It does not automatically approve or publish a profile.

4. What Becomes Public

Profiles are published only after review and approval by Echoes of the Wild.

A published profile may display:

Your email and phone number remain private unless you select the option to make them public or give permission for them to be shared.

Your full or legal name and internal moderation records are not intended for public display.

5. Sharing With Third Parties, Sponsors, and Stakeholders

By submitting your profile to the Echoes Talent Directory, you agree that Echoes of the Wild may share your submitted information, profile details, portfolio links, images, and creative category with selected third parties where reasonably connected to the purpose of the directory.

These third parties may include:

Echoes of the Wild may also include Talent Directory information in sponsorship proposals, business presentations, stakeholder reports, grant applications, marketing materials, website content, social media content, and other company communication.

This is done to promote the Echoes of the Wild platform, grow the creative ecosystem, attract partnerships, and create visibility for listed talent.

6. No Compensation for Use of Directory Information

Talent will not be entitled to payment, royalties, commission, compensation, or any other financial benefit simply because their profile, name, image, category, biography, or information is included in the Echoes Talent Directory, shared with stakeholders, used in proposals, used in reports, presented to sponsors, or used to promote the directory.

Any paid performance, booking, appearance, campaign, endorsement, or professional engagement must be agreed separately in writing between the talent and the relevant party.

Listing on the Talent Directory does not create an employment relationship, agency relationship, management agreement, exclusive representation agreement, or automatic commercial contract with Echoes of the Wild.

7. Future Paid Profiles and Featured Listings

Echoes of the Wild may introduce paid Talent Directory services in the future.

These may include:

If such services are introduced, the applicable fees, benefits, and conditions will be communicated before payment is required.

Echoes of the Wild reserves the right to change, limit, suspend, or discontinue free listings in the future. Existing free profiles may be asked to upgrade, renew, verify, or confirm continued participation.

8. Talent Responsibilities

By submitting a profile, you confirm that:

Echoes of the Wild may edit, reject, unpublish, suspend, or remove any profile that does not meet its standards or appears false, harmful, incomplete, inappropriate, or unlawful.

9. Service Providers

We use service providers to host the application and database, deliver transactional email, and provide anti-spam protection.

This may include providers such as:

These providers process only the information needed to provide their service and may process data outside Botswana under their own security and privacy terms.

10. Retention and Deletion

Pending and published profile records are retained while needed for review, verification, publication, support, promotion, reporting, and directory operations.

Rejected or unpublished profiles may be scheduled for permanent deletion after a 30-day retention period through the directory’s operational cleanup process.

Limited records may remain for longer where reasonably required for:

You may ask us to correct, unpublish, or delete your profile information, subject to legal, operational, and security requirements.

11. Your Choices and Rights

You may contact Echoes of the Wild to:

Some information may be retained where required for legal, security, dispute, or business record purposes.

12. Minors

If you are under 18, you must ask a parent or legal guardian to contact us before submitting personal information or creating a Talent Directory profile.

Echoes of the Wild may request parental or guardian consent before approving or publishing a minor’s profile.

13. Changes to This Policy

Echoes of the Wild may update this Talent Directory Privacy and Participation Policy from time to time.

The latest version will be published on www.echoesofthewild.co.bw and will apply from the date of publication.

Continued use of the Talent Directory after changes are published means you accept the updated policy.

14. Contact

For Talent Directory privacy questions, corrections, profile updates, unpublishing requests, or deletion requests, contact:

Echoes Talent Directory
Email: support@talent.echoesofthewild.co.bw
Website: www.echoesofthewild.co.bw

Echoes of the Wild
A business name under Okavango Gear (Pty) Ltd
Botswana