Nearshore Middle East Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 2026 

Nearshore Middle East S.A.E. (“Nearshore Middle East”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal data we collect and process through our website, professional services, training programs, communications, and related business activities. 

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, disclose, and protect personal data when you visit our website, contact us, engage us for professional services, register for training programs, subscribe to updates, or interact with us in any other way. 

This policy applies to website visitors, clients, prospective clients, training participants, students, suppliers, business contacts, and other individuals who interact with Nearshore Middle East. 

Where we provide professional services, this Privacy Policy should be read together with the relevant engagement letter, proposal, training application form, terms and conditions, or other contractual documents agreed with you. 

1. Who We Are

Nearshore Middle East S.A.E. is an audit, tax, advisory, and training services firm operating in Egypt and supporting businesses across Egypt, the GCC, and the wider Middle East region.

For privacy-related questions, you may contact us at:

Email: info@nearshoreme.com
Phone: +20 106 991 5551
Address: Unit 102, Building 216, Sector 2, South 90 Street, Fifth Settlement, New Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

2. Personal Data We Collect

We may collect and process the following categories of personal data, depending on how you interact with us:

Identification and contact data

This may include your name, job title, company name, email address, phone number, country, and other contact details.

Business and professional data

This may include your employer, position, industry, business requirements, service inquiries, proposal requests, engagement-related communications, and information you provide in connection with audit, tax, advisory, accounting, risk, governance, forensic, or training services.

Training and student data

Where you register for training programs, we may collect your registration details, course preferences, attendance records, payment status, exam-related information, professional qualification details, and communications relating to your training.

Payment and transaction data

Where online payments are available, payment processing may be handled through third-party payment service providers. We may receive limited transaction information, such as payment confirmation, invoice details, billing information, and transaction status. We do not intentionally collect or store full card details unless clearly stated and handled through an authorized payment processor.

Website and technical data

When you visit our website, we may collect technical information such as your IP address, browser type and version, device type, pages visited, time and date of visit, time spent on pages, referral sources, and cookie-related information.

Marketing and communication data

This may include your preferences for receiving newsletters, training updates, regulatory alerts, invitations, or other communications from us, as well as your interactions with our emails or website content.

Sensitive or confidential information

In the course of professional services, clients may provide confidential business, financial, tax, legal, payroll, employee, or transaction-related information. Such information is handled in accordance with our professional obligations, engagement terms, confidentiality commitments, and applicable laws.

Please do not submit highly confidential documents, sensitive personal data, or client records through general website forms. Where required, our team will provide an appropriate secure channel for document exchange.

3. How We Collect Personal Data

We may collect personal data when you:

• Visit or use our website.
• Complete a contact form or request a proposal.
• Register for a training program.
• Subscribe to newsletters, insights, events, or regulatory updates.
• Communicate with us by email, phone, messaging applications, social media, or in person.
• Engage us to provide audit, tax, advisory, accounting, risk, governance, forensic, or training services.
• Make an online payment or request an invoice.
• Attend a webinar, training session, seminar, or event.
• Provide information as part of a client engagement, proposal, or business relationship.
• Use or view our website through cookies or similar technologies.

We may also receive personal data from clients, employers, professional bodies, training partners, service providers, public sources, or third parties where it is lawful and relevant to our services.

4. How We Use Personal Data

We may use personal data for the following purposes:

• To respond to inquiries and proposal requests.
• To provide audit, tax, advisory, accounting, risk, governance, forensic, and training services.
• To manage client relationships and professional engagements.
• To process training registrations, attendance, certificates, invoices, and related communications.
• To process payments and manage billing and collection.
• To communicate with you about our services, training programs, events, regulatory updates, and insights.
• To improve our website, services, client experience, and training delivery.
• To maintain internal records, quality control, risk management, independence, and compliance procedures.
• To comply with legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, audit, professional, and contractual obligations.
• To protect our rights, prevent fraud, investigate misuse, and maintain the security of our systems and services.

Where required by law, we will rely on your consent before using your personal data for certain purposes, including direct electronic marketing or sharing training-related information with professional bodies.

5. ACCA and Professional Qualification Programs

Where you register for ACCA or other professional qualification training programs, we may process and share relevant student data with the relevant professional body where required for course administration, learning partner requirements, results analysis, student support, compliance, or quality monitoring.

For ACCA programs, student details may be used in connection with ACCA’s Results Service, subject to applicable requirements and your consent where required.

6. Marketing Communications

We may send you information about our services, training programs, events, publications, regulatory updates, or insights where you have agreed to receive such communications or where we are otherwise permitted to do so under applicable law.

You may opt out of marketing communications at any time by:

• Using the unsubscribe option included in our emails, where available.
• Contacting us at info@nearshoreme.com.
• Asking our team to remove you from future marketing communications.

We will continue to send you non-marketing communications where necessary, such as service-related messages, engagement communications, payment confirmations, legal notices, or administrative updates.

7. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. We may use cookies and similar technologies to operate our website, improve user experience, understand website traffic, and support marketing or analytics activities.

We may use the following types of cookies:

Essential cookies

These are necessary for the website to function properly.

Functional cookies

These help remember your preferences, such as language or previously selected settings.

Analytics cookies

These help us understand how visitors use our website so we can improve content, layout, and performance.

Advertising or marketing cookies

Where enabled, these may be used to understand interactions with our website and support relevant advertising or remarketing activities.

You can manage cookies through your browser settings or through the cookie options available on our website. If you disable certain cookies, some website features may not function properly.

8. Sharing Personal Data

We do not sell personal data.

We may share personal data where necessary with:

• Professional advisers, consultants, auditors, lawyers, tax advisers, or other service providers.
• Technology, cloud hosting, website, email, payment, CRM, analytics, or IT support providers.
• Professional bodies, training partners, or awarding bodies where relevant to training programs.
• Regulatory authorities, courts, government bodies, tax authorities, or law enforcement where required by law.
• RT ASEAN network firms or professional service partners where required to support cross-border client work, subject to confidentiality and applicable legal requirements.
• Other third parties where you have instructed us or given your consent.

Where third parties process personal data on our behalf, we expect them to apply appropriate confidentiality, security, and data protection safeguards.

9. International Data Transfers

Some of our service providers, technology platforms, professional partners, or cloud systems may process or store data outside Egypt.

Where personal data is transferred outside Egypt or shared across jurisdictions, we take steps designed to ensure that such transfers are made in accordance with applicable data protection requirements, contractual safeguards, professional confidentiality obligations, and relevant legal approvals where required.

10. How We Store and Protect Personal Data

We use reasonable technical, organizational, and administrative measures to protect personal data against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

These measures may include restricted access, password protection, secure cloud services, internal access controls, professional confidentiality procedures, and secure document exchange practices where appropriate.

No website, email, or online transmission method is completely secure. For highly confidential engagement documents, clients should use the secure channels provided by Nearshore Middle East rather than general website forms or unsecured email.

11. Data Retention

We retain personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including to provide services, manage client or training relationships, comply with legal and professional obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and maintain business records.

Retention periods may vary depending on the nature of the data and the purpose of processing. For example:

• Client engagement records may be retained in accordance with applicable legal, tax, audit, professional, and contractual requirements.
• Training and student records may be retained for course administration, certification, regulatory, professional-body, and quality-monitoring purposes.
• Marketing contact data may be retained until you unsubscribe or request removal, unless we have another lawful reason to retain limited records.
• Website analytics and cookie data may be retained in accordance with the relevant cookie settings and service-provider configurations.

When personal data is no longer required, we will delete, anonymize, or securely restrict access to it, subject to applicable legal and professional requirements.

12. Your Data Protection Rights

Subject to applicable law and certain conditions, you may have the right to:

• Request access to the personal data we hold about you.
• Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
• Request deletion of your personal data.
• Request restriction of processing.
• Object to certain processing activities.
• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
• Request transfer of your personal data where applicable.
• Object to direct marketing communications.

To exercise your rights, please contact us at:

Email: info@nearshoreme.com
Phone: +20 106 991 5551

We may need to verify your identity before responding to a request. We will respond within the period required by applicable law.

13. Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to third-party websites, including professional bodies, training platforms, payment providers, or external resources.

This Privacy Policy applies only to Nearshore Middle East. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or security of third-party websites. You should review the privacy policies of those websites before providing any personal data.

14. Children’s Data

Our website and services are generally intended for business users, professionals, students, and adult training participants.

We do not knowingly collect personal data from children through our website without appropriate consent where required by law. If you believe that a child has provided personal data to us without appropriate consent, please contact us.

15. Updates to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our services, legal requirements, technology, or business practices.

The latest version will be published on this page with the updated date shown at the top.

16. How to Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the personal data we hold about you, or your data protection rights, please contact us at:

Nearshore Middle East S.A.E.
Unit 102, Building 216, Sector 2, South 90 Street, Fifth Settlement, New Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

Email: info@nearshoreme.com
Phone: +20 106 991 5551

Where applicable, you may also have the right to contact the competent data protection authority in Egypt through its officially published channels.