Privacy policy (United Arab Emirates)

Last updated 10 October 2026.

This policy explains how NearbyWise ("we") handles personal data on NearbyWise in the United Arab Emirates, in line with Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on the Protection of Personal Data (PDPL).

Reading the site

You don't need an account to read NearbyWise, and we don't run advertising or analytics trackers. Our hosting provider keeps standard server logs (such as IP address, browser type and the pages requested) to run the site and protect it from abuse. These logs are kept for a short period and are not used to profile you.

We use two small cookies: one remembers the country you chose, and one remembers that you have seen our cookie notice. See the cookie policy.

When you contact us

If you email us (for example with a correction), we use your name, email address and message to reply and to act on your request, and keep them only as long as needed for that.

Business information

We publish information about businesses, not private individuals: details each business makes public on its own website and on its public Google listing, such as its name, address, phone number, prices and services. A business can ask us to correct or remove its listing at any time (see corrections).

Who we share data with

We don't sell personal data. We use service providers to host the site and store our data, and they process it only on our instructions. Some of them store data outside the UAE; where they do, we transfer it only as the PDPL allows and require an adequate level of protection.

Keeping data safe

We protect personal data with appropriate security measures, and if a breach puts your privacy at risk we will notify the UAE Data Office and tell you, as the PDPL requires.

Your rights

You can ask what personal data we hold about you and how we use it, and ask us to correct or erase it, restrict or stop its processing, or transfer it to you or another organisation. We will respond within 30 days. You can also complain to the UAE Data Office.

Contact

For any privacy question or request, email us at hello@nearbywise.com.

Changes

We may update this policy. The date at the top shows when it last changed.