Next Coast Media · Policies
Privacy Policy
Version 1.0 · Effective July 12, 2026 · Last updated July 12, 2026
This policy covers Next Coast Media and Marketing Services LLC (“Next Coast Media”, “we”) and all of its brands and websites: Nearshore Americas (nearshoreamericas.com and its subdomains, including our newsletter, resource, and events pages), Next Coast Brokerage (nextcoastbrokerage.com), and Next Coast Media (nextcoastmedia.com), plus the emails we send from any of them.
Change log
| Date | Version | What changed |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-12 | 1.0 | Central policy for all brands; supersedes the newsletter-only policy of 2026-07-05, which now redirects here |
| 2026-07-05 | pp-2026-07-v1 | First policy, newsletter signup only |
Who we are
Next Coast Media and Marketing Services LLC is the company behind Nearshore Americas (an industry publication and events organizer covering nearshore technology services, including the Nexus conference), Next Coast Brokerage (an M&A advisory), and Next Coast Media (our corporate site). The LLC is the data controller for everything this policy covers.
Questions, requests, complaints: . Postal address: 33 Dixwell Ave, 316, New Haven, CT, 06511, United States.
What we collect, and when
We only collect what you give us, plus the minimum a website needs to run. By activity:
Newsletter signups. Your email address; your first and last name if you choose to give them; which consent boxes you ticked, the exact wording you saw, and when; which link brought you to us.
Event pages (like “Save the Date”). Your email address; whether you also opted into the newsletter; the same consent record (exact wording, version, timestamp); a tag saying which campaign or link brought you. We deliberately do not store your IP address or browser details with your submission.
Event registration and ticketing. When you register for a live or digital event: name, email, company, role, and payment details where tickets are paid. Ticketing runs on our events platform; payment card data goes to the payment processor, never to us.
Gated resources (reports, ebooks). Email address and the details the specific form asks for, with the same consent record pattern.
Contacting us. Whatever you put in the message, plus your email so we can reply. Brokerage inquiries to Next Coast Brokerage are treated as confidential business correspondence.
Just browsing. Our sites sit behind Cloudflare, which processes IP addresses in its infrastructure logs and shows us aggregate analytics (pages, countries, traffic sources). We do not build individual browsing profiles. Where a site runs Google Analytics or Google reCAPTCHA, Google’s cookies apply and are covered by the cookie policy. Our forms use Cloudflare Turnstile to block bots; Turnstile evaluates your browser session without showing you a puzzle.
What we use it for
Each purpose comes with the legal basis we rely on:
- Sending you the newsletter or event updates you asked for (your consent).
- Running events you registered for: confirmations, tickets, practical updates (performing our contract with you).
- Marketing our own events, products, and offers to people who opted in or are existing business contacts (consent, or our legitimate interest in contacting business audiences, always with a working unsubscribe).
- Keeping our sites secure and our forms bot-free (legitimate interest).
- Meeting legal obligations like accounting records (legal obligation).
- Establishing or defending legal claims if we ever have to (legitimate interest).
What we do not do: we do not sell or rent your data. We do not send to purchased lists. We honor every unsubscribe permanently, and we keep a suppression record precisely so an opt-out is never forgotten.
Who processes it for us
Trusted service providers process data on our behalf, under their data processing terms, and only on our instructions. By category:
- Website hosting, security, and bot protection: Cloudflare. It hosts our pages, protects our forms (Turnstile), and provides aggregate analytics; it processes IP addresses in its infrastructure logs.
- Analytics and bot screening on some pages: Google (Google Analytics, and Google reCAPTCHA where a site still uses it). Covered in the cookie policy.
- Email delivery providers, which send our newsletters, event emails, and marketing on our behalf and track delivery and unsubscribes.
- Event registration and ticketing platforms, which handle registrations and tickets for our events. Payment card data goes to the payment processor, never to us.
- Business software providers for company email and documents, our contact database, our publishing platform, list hygiene, and customer relationship management.
We keep an internal register of every provider, updated the same day a tool is adopted or dropped. Want to know which provider handles a specific piece of your data? Ask at and we will tell you.
We share data with nobody else, except professional advisers (accountants, lawyers) when needed, or authorities when the law requires it.
If the business changes hands
If Next Coast Media or one of its brands is sold, merged, or reorganized, the data this policy covers may transfer with the business. The new owner takes it under this policy’s promises, and we will tell you before your data becomes subject to a different one.
Where it lives, and international transfers
We are a US company and our processors are primarily US-based. If you are in the EEA, UK, or another jurisdiction with transfer rules, transfers to us and our processors rely on the processors’ standard contractual clauses and equivalent safeguards. Ask us at if you want the details for a specific processor.
How long we keep it
- Email subscriptions and consents: for as long as you are subscribed, plus a record of the consent itself.
- Unsubscribes and opt-outs: kept permanently as a suppression record, so we never mail you again by mistake. When you ask us to delete your data, we keep only the minimum marker needed to honor that deletion.
- Event registrations: through the event and a reasonable period after, plus whatever accounting law requires for paid tickets.
- Business correspondence: as long as the relationship stays relevant.
- Inactive contact records: reviewed and cleared in our regular data housekeeping.
Security
Data moves over encrypted connections. Our forms are built to collect the minimum: no IP addresses or browser fingerprints stored with submissions, exact consent wording versioned, bot protection server-side. Access to contact data is limited to the small team that needs it. No system is perfect; if we ever have a breach that affects you, we will tell you.
Your rights
Wherever you are, we extend the same rights: ask what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, ask us to delete it, ask for a copy you can take elsewhere, object to marketing (or withdraw any consent) at any time. Every marketing email has an unsubscribe link that works instantly and permanently. Unsubscribing from marketing never touches a newsletter you separately chose, and vice versa.
Write to . We answer within 30 days. If you are in a jurisdiction with a data protection authority, you also have the right to complain to it.
If you are a California resident: the rights above cover your rights under California law (to know, to delete, to correct, and to non-discrimination for exercising them). We do not sell or share personal information as California law defines those terms, so there is nothing to opt out of.
Children
Our sites and events are for professionals. They are not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 16.
When this policy changes
The change log at the top shows every substantive change with its date. For material changes we will also say so on the sites, or by email where the change affects something you signed up for.