Privacy policy

Who we are

Nearhire (nearhire.co) is operated by Catch Consultants International Pte Ltd, a company in Singapore. We help businesses in Australia and New Zealand hire accounting and finance professionals based in South Africa, and we talk to those professionals about roles. In this policy, “we” and “Nearhire” mean that operator.

Contact for anything in this policy: hello@nearhire.co.

What we collect

If you are a business or practice and use the role builder, send a brief or book a call, we collect your name, work email, company, the role or brief you describe, any notes you add, and the time you choose for a call.

If you are a candidate and apply on the apply page, we collect your name, email, phone or WhatsApp number, LinkedIn link, the role you are interested in, years of experience, credentials and software you list, an optional salary figure, a link to your CV, and anything you add in notes. You tick a consent box before you send it.

When you visit the site, our own first-party events record the page you viewed, a random session identifier (held in your browser session, not a cookie), the referring site and campaign tags (such as utm_source), and your approximate country. We respect the browser Do Not Track signal for these events.

We do not ask for payment details, government ID numbers or health information on this site. Please do not put them in free-text fields.

Advertising and analytics cookies

We use the Google Ads tag to measure whether visitors who arrive from our Google ads go on to book a call or send a brief. That tag can set cookies or similar identifiers in your browser and sends Google information about your visit. We also use Google Analytics 4 to understand how the site is used (page views and actions such as sending a brief or booking a call); it works the same way. The Google tag is loaded on our pages regardless of the Do Not Track signal.

Fonts on our pages are loaded from Google Fonts, so Google receives your IP address when a page loads.

You can control this through your browser settings, by blocking third-party cookies, or by using Google’s own controls at adssettings.google.com. Blocking these cookies does not stop you from using the site.

How we use information

• to reply to you, scope a role and book and run calls;
• for candidates, to assess your details and match you to roles, and to contact you about them;
• to measure and improve the site and our advertising;
• to keep the site secure and prevent spam and abuse.

We do not sell personal information.

Who we share it with

With the people at Nearhire who handle enquiries and recruitment, and with service providers that run the site for us: website hosting, the server that stores bookings and form submissions, and the email and messaging tools our team uses to receive them. Google receives the advertising and analytics data described above.

For candidates: when we match you to a role, we may share your profile and CV link with the business that is hiring, so they can consider you. We will not do that for a role you have not agreed to be put forward for.

We may also disclose information where the law requires it.

Where information is handled

Our visitors and candidates are in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, and we operate from Singapore. Your information may therefore be handled in Singapore, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, and by service providers in other countries, including the United States and Europe. If you are in Australia, New Zealand or South Africa, that includes sending information outside your country.

Your choices and rights

You can ask us to tell you what we hold about you, correct it, or delete it, and candidates can withdraw consent to be matched to roles. Email hello@nearhire.co from the address you used and we will respond. We may need to confirm it is you first.

Privacy laws that may apply to you include the Privacy Act 1988 (Australia), the Privacy Act 2020 (New Zealand), the Protection of Personal Information Act (South Africa) and the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (Singapore). If you are not satisfied with our response you can complain to the relevant regulator: the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner, the South African Information Regulator or the Singapore Personal Data Protection Commission.

How long we keep it

We keep information for as long as we need it for the purposes above, then delete or anonymise it. You can ask us to delete your information sooner at any time.

Google services we use internally

Our own team uses Google Ads and Google Search Console tools, including their APIs, to read and manage Nearhire’s own advertising and search data. These tools work on Nearhire’s own accounts. We do not collect Google account information from visitors to this site.

Children

This site is for businesses and working adults. It is not directed at anyone under 18.

Changes to this policy

We will update this page when what we do changes and change the date below. Last updated: 27 October 2026.