Privacy policy
Last updated: July 2026
What we collect
For candidates: your name, email, optional LinkedIn/portfolio URL, the resume you upload, your written interview answers, and behavioral signals during interviews (response timing, tab focus, paste events, and typing activity). We deliberately collect no camera, microphone, or biometric data. For employers: your organization name, email, and the jobs you create.
How AI is used
AI screens resumes against the job's stated requirements, evaluates written interview answers, and drafts feedback. AI never makes hiring decisions — every shortlist, offer, or rejection is made by a human at the hiring company. Resume and answer text is processed by our AI provider solely to produce these evaluations; it is not used to train models.
Who sees your data
Your application is visible only to the company you applied to. We share data with the infrastructure providers that run the service (hosting, database, email delivery, AI processing) under their standard data-protection terms. We never sell candidate data or use it for advertising.
Retention & your rights
Application data is kept while the hiring process is active. Twelve months after an application reaches a final decision, we automatically delete your resume file, extracted resume text, LinkedIn URL, application answers, and interview answers with their behavioral signals. What remains is the decision record the hiring company relied on: your name, email, the outcome, scores, and the AI-generated evaluation reports and feedback, which can quote brief excerpts from your resume or answers as evidence. That record is kept so the hiring company can account for its decisions, and is itself covered by your deletion rights below. You can request access to, correction of, or deletion of your data at any time by emailing privacy@hirelight.app. Deletion requests are honored unless the hiring company is legally required to retain records.
Contact
Questions about this policy: privacy@hirelight.app