Last Updated: August 2, 2026
NearMeZone.com (“NearMeZone,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and share information when you visit our website, create an account, list a business, contact a business, request a booking, submit content, or otherwise use our services.
1. Information We Collect
Depending on how you use NearMeZone, we may collect the following information:
Information You Provide
- Name, email address, phone number, and account credentials.
- Business name, category, description, location, opening hours, services, prices, photographs, and contact details.
- Booking details, enquiries, messages, and communication preferences.
- Reviews, ratings, comments, photographs, and other submitted content.
- Billing and subscription information related to paid business plans.
- Information included when you contact our support team.
Information Collected Automatically
When you use our website, we may automatically collect:
- IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, and language.
- Pages visited, referring pages, clicks, session duration, and website interactions.
- Approximate location based on your device or IP address.
- Cookie identifiers and similar technical information.
- Login, security, performance, and error data.
2. How We Use Your Information
We may use collected information to:
- Create, operate, and secure user and business accounts.
- Publish and manage business listings.
- Help users discover, contact, and request bookings with local businesses.
- Process business subscriptions and paid listing plans.
- Send account, booking, payment, security, and service-related communications.
- Provide customer support and respond to enquiries.
- Display reviews, ratings, photographs, and other submitted content.
- Personalize search results and website experiences.
- Analyze website usage and improve our features, performance, and services.
- Detect fraud, abuse, spam, unauthorized access, and policy violations.
- Comply with legal obligations and enforce our agreements.
- Send promotional communications where permitted or with your consent.
3. Legal Grounds for Processing
Where required by applicable law, we process personal information based on one or more of the following grounds:
- To provide services or fulfil a contract with you.
- Your consent.
- Our legitimate interests in operating, improving, and protecting the website.
- Compliance with legal or regulatory obligations.
- Protection of the rights, safety, and security of users, businesses, and others.
Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawal will not affect processing completed before consent was withdrawn.
4. Public Business Listings and Content
Information added to a public business listing may be visible to website visitors and search engines. This may include the business name, location, contact details, services, prices, photographs, opening hours, ratings, and reviews.
Reviews, comments, profile information, and other content submitted publicly may also be visible to other users. You should avoid publishing personal or confidential information that you do not want publicly available.
5. Bookings and Communications
When a user contacts or requests a booking with a listed business, we may share the information required to process that request with the relevant business.
Businesses are independently responsible for how they handle personal information received through enquiries, bookings, or direct communications. Their handling of that information may also be governed by their own privacy practices.
6. Payments
Payments for business plans or other paid services may be processed through third-party payment providers.
We may receive limited payment-related information, such as transaction status, billing name, subscription type, and payment reference. Complete card or banking details are generally collected and processed directly by the payment provider according to its own privacy policy.
7. How We Share Information
We may share information with:
- Businesses contacted or booked by users.
- Hosting, analytics, email, security, mapping, communication, and technical service providers.
- Payment processors and subscription-management providers.
- Professional advisers, auditors, insurers, or legal representatives where necessary.
- Government authorities or law-enforcement agencies when legally required.
- A buyer, investor, successor, or related party involved in a merger, acquisition, restructuring, financing, or sale of assets.
We may also share aggregated or anonymized information that does not reasonably identify an individual.
We do not authorize service providers to use personal information for purposes unrelated to providing their services to us.
8. Cookies and Similar Technologies
We may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Keep users signed in.
- Remember preferences.
- Maintain security.
- Support website functionality.
- Analyze traffic and performance.
- Measure marketing effectiveness.
Where required, you may manage non-essential cookies through our cookie banner or your browser settings. Please review our Cookies Policy for further information.
9. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to:
- Provide our services.
- Maintain accounts and business listings.
- Complete transactions and bookings.
- Resolve disputes and enforce agreements.
- Prevent fraud and maintain security.
- Meet legal, accounting, or regulatory requirements.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected. Information may remain in backups for a limited period after deletion.
10. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
However, no website, database, or online transmission method can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Users are responsible for protecting their passwords and account-access information.
11. International Data Transfers
NearMeZone and its service providers may process or store information in countries other than the country where you live.
Where required by applicable law, we will use appropriate safeguards for international transfers of personal information.
12. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to:
- Request access to your personal information.
- Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.
- Request deletion of certain information.
- Object to or restrict certain processing.
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
- Request a portable copy of certain information.
- Opt out of promotional emails.
- Submit a complaint to an applicable data-protection authority.
You may unsubscribe from promotional emails by using the unsubscribe link provided in the message. Important account, booking, payment, and security communications may still be sent.
To submit a privacy request, contact us at contact@nearmezone.com. We may need to verify your identity before completing the request. Some requests may be limited where retention or processing is legally required.
13. Account and Listing Deletion
Users and business owners may request the deletion of their accounts or listings by contacting us.
Deleting an account may not immediately remove information that must be retained for legal, security, fraud-prevention, payment, dispute-resolution, or backup purposes. Public content may also remain where another lawful reason permits its retention.
14. Children’s Privacy
NearMeZone is not intended for children under the minimum age required to consent to online services in their location.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children without appropriate authorization. If you believe that a child has provided personal information through our website, please contact us so that we can review and take appropriate action.
15. Third-Party Websites and Services
Our website may contain links to business websites, maps, social media platforms, payment providers, and other third-party services.
We are not responsible for the privacy, security, or data-handling practices of third parties. Users should review the privacy policies of those services before providing personal information.
16. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to our services, technology, business practices, or legal obligations.
The revised policy will be published on this page with an updated “Last Updated” date. Continued use of the website after an update constitutes acknowledgement of the revised policy where permitted by law.
17. Contact Us
For privacy-related questions, requests, or concerns, please contact us at:
Email: contact@nearmezone.com