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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2 June 2026. This policy applies to the website ancient-pass.xyz and all enquiry and booking communications with Nile Heritage Guides LLC.

1. Controller Identity

The data controller responsible for your personal information is Nile Heritage Guides LLC, a company registered in Egypt under GAFI Registry number 384217, with its principal office at 14 Talaat Harb Street, Floor 3, Cairo 11511, Egypt. Tax ID (ETA): 672-481-039. Contact: [email protected] or +20 2 2391 8840.

2. What Data We Collect

We collect only the personal data necessary to respond to your enquiry and to provide the heritage guide services you request. This includes:

  • Contact information: full name, email address, telephone number (if provided).
  • Enquiry details: group size, preferred travel dates, site preferences, language preference, accessibility requirements you choose to disclose.
  • Booking information: payment record identifiers, confirmation of deposit and balance payments (specific payment card or bank account details are processed exclusively by our payment provider and are not stored by us).
  • Communication records: emails, letters and any written exchanges relating to your enquiry or booking.
  • Technical data: standard web server log data — IP address, browser type, referring page, page accessed, timestamp. This is collected automatically when you visit this website and is retained for 30 days for security purposes only.

We do not use tracking pixels, analytics scripts, marketing cookies or third-party advertising networks on this website. We do not set cookies beyond what the web server requires for standard operation.

3. Why We Process Your Data

We process your personal data on the following legal bases:

  • Contract performance: to respond to your enquiry, prepare and confirm your booking, coordinate guide assignments and access permits, and deliver the tour programme you have booked.
  • Legitimate interest: to maintain records of bookings for business administration, to improve our services based on feedback, and to send our quarterly archaeological digest to past clients who have not opted out.
  • Legal obligation: to comply with applicable Egyptian law, tax record-keeping requirements, and any relevant international regulations.
  • Consent: for any marketing communications beyond the quarterly digest, we will ask for your explicit consent before sending.

4. How We Use Your Data

Your data is used exclusively to:

  • Respond to your enquiry and prepare your itinerary proposal.
  • Confirm bookings and process the associated fees.
  • Coordinate with Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities offices where permit applications require submitting your name and nationality.
  • Send you pre-visit briefing materials, tour confirmations and post-tour resources.
  • Send our quarterly archaeological digest to past clients (you may opt out at any time by emailing [email protected]).
  • Comply with legal and tax record requirements.

5. Who Receives Your Data

We do not sell your personal data to third parties under any circumstances. We share it only with:

  • Our guides: your name, group size and any disclosed accessibility requirements are shared with the assigned Egyptologist guide in order for them to prepare appropriately.
  • Payment processor: your payment details are processed by our invoicing and payment service provider. We do not retain raw card or banking data ourselves.
  • Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities: where restricted-access permit applications require submitting visitor name and nationality information. Only the minimum required data is provided.
  • Legal authorities: if required by law, court order or regulatory authority request.

6. Data Retention

We retain personal data associated with a confirmed booking for seven years after the date of the tour, to comply with Egyptian commercial and tax record-keeping requirements. Enquiry data that does not result in a booking is retained for twelve months and then permanently deleted. Email newsletter subscriber data is retained until you opt out, at which point it is removed within fourteen days. Web server log data is deleted after 30 days.

7. Your Rights

Depending on your country of residence, you may have rights under applicable law including:

  • The right to request access to the personal data we hold about you.
  • The right to request correction of inaccurate data.
  • The right to request deletion of your data where we are not required by law to retain it.
  • The right to object to processing based on our legitimate interest.
  • The right to withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent.
  • The right to data portability — to receive your data in a commonly used electronic format.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at [email protected]. We will respond within 30 days. We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request.

8. International Transfers

Our operations are based in Egypt. If you contact us from a country within the European Economic Area or another jurisdiction with data transfer restrictions, your personal data is transferred to and processed in Egypt for the purposes described in this policy. Egypt has enacted personal data protection legislation under Law No. 151 of 2020. We apply appropriate safeguards including standard contractual clauses where required.

9. Security

We apply appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your data from unauthorised access, loss or disclosure. Our website is served over HTTPS. Internal systems used to manage enquiries and bookings are access-controlled and password-protected. Staff handling personal data receive training on data protection obligations. We review our security measures regularly and update them when new risks are identified.

10. Cookies and Tracking

This website does not set marketing cookies. It does not embed any third-party scripts from advertising networks, social media platforms, analytics providers or content delivery networks. The only external request made by this website is to load fonts from the device's local system — no external font CDN is used. Standard web server session-handling may set a transient session identifier that is not stored persistently and does not track you across sessions or sites.

11. Children's Data

Our services are intended for adults. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of 16. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has submitted personal data through this website, please contact us at [email protected] and we will delete the data promptly.

12. Third-Party Websites

This website contains links to the websites of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, the Grand Egyptian Museum and other heritage institutions for informational purposes. Once you navigate to those sites, this privacy policy no longer applies and we have no control over how they collect or process your data. We recommend you review their respective privacy notices.

13. Changes to This Policy

We may update this privacy policy to reflect changes in our practices, services or applicable law. When we do, we will update the "last updated" date at the top of this page. Material changes that affect how we process your data will be communicated to active clients by email before taking effect. Continued use of our services after a change constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

13b. Data Minimisation Policy

We apply the principle of data minimisation throughout our operations. This means we collect only the personal data strictly necessary for the specific purpose it is being collected for, and no more. For an enquiry, this means your name, email address and the details of what you are enquiring about. For a confirmed booking it extends to include payment record identifiers. We do not collect date of birth, passport details, nationality or any sensitive personal data unless a specific site permit application explicitly requires it — in which case we collect only the minimum required by the permit authority and retain it only for the duration of that application process.

Our booking system does not create behavioural profiles, cross-reference your data with external data sources, or make automated decisions about your enquiry. All decisions about how to respond to an enquiry are made by a human member of our team who reads your message. We do not use any form of automated filtering, scoring or recommendation system that processes your personal data. This is not a technical limitation — it is a deliberate choice that reflects our view that a personalised service requires human judgement, not algorithmic processing.

14. Contact and Complaints

For any privacy-related question, access request or complaint, contact us at:

Nile Heritage Guides LLC
14 Talaat Harb Street, Floor 3, Cairo 11511, Egypt
[email protected]  |  +20 2 2391 8840
Tax ID (ETA): 672-481-039  |  GAFI Registry: 384217

If you are not satisfied with our response, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection supervisory authority in your country of residence.

Nile Heritage Guides LLC

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Nile Heritage Guides LLC
14 Talaat Harb Street, Floor 3
Cairo 11511, Egypt
+20 2 2391 8840
[email protected]

Tax ID (ETA): 672-481-039
GAFI Registry: 384217
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