Privacy & data practices

TalentOS (usetalentos.app) is a reasoning-first assessment environment for technical hiring, run by its founding team. This page describes, in plain language, exactly what the product does with your data today. Nothing more, nothing less. It is maintained by the founding team and updated as the product evolves.

To reach us about anything on this page, reply to any email TalentOS has sent you. Replies are read by a person, not a bot.

Applications through the retired role-link flow:if you applied to a role through a role link while that flow existed, we retain your CV, your name and email, the answers you wrote, and the screening result. That flow is closed: old role links now lead to the hiring manager's public page. The retained data is visible only to that role's hiring manager, your CV lives in private storage, and you can request deletion at any time.

If you take an assessment:your account email (your account is protected with MFA), and what you choose to connect: your CV, a public projection of your GitHub (never your token or private data), or a LinkedIn URL. We also store your work in the workspace and your conversation with the AI teammate. That conversation is part of the assessment evidence, and the screen tells you so while you work. The hiring team for that role sees your name and account email and, unless you withdraw, the CV and its summary, the GitHub projection and the LinkedIn URL you connect. When the assessment shows you a review of what the hiring team sees before you continue, the team also sees what that review shows: your profile's headline, location, about, links, experience, education, skills and projects, and your profile photo unless you leave it out. That copy stays as it was when you shared it: later changes to your profile don't change it.

If you build a profile: what you add to it: a headline, location, about and links, your experience, education, skills and projects, a profile photo, your CV, and the GitHub and LinkedIn you connect. Only you see your profile page. When you take an assessment, you choose whether to use the CV, GitHub or LinkedIn from it there; a copy goes to that assessment. Where the assessment shows you that review, the rest of your profile goes too, as the review shows it; otherwise nothing else in your profile does.

Funnel analytics (historical): the retired application flow recorded which stage of the flow visits reached: no name, no email, no IP, no per-stage timing. Nothing records new stages anymore; the historical rows expire on a fixed schedule. We never collect keystrokes, screen recordings, webcam, voice, or any surveillance signal. Speed is never a signal.

If you applied through the retired role-link flow, AI scored your CV and your written answers, with a written justification for every score, and you received that reasoning by email.

In assessments, AI generates the scenario from the role's job description, and evaluates reasoning with cited evidence from what you consciously produced: your artifacts and your conversation with the AI teammate. The hiring team reviews the evidence.

When you connect your CV to an assessment, AI reads it to write a short summary of what we understood, which you can edit. That summary and the GitHub you connect are used to word your calibration question. The hiring team for the role sees that summary too. The scenario itself comes from the role's job description, not from your profile, and the assessment doesn't score your CV.

When you upload a CV to your profile, an AI model (Anthropic's Claude) reads it to write that summary and to fill in your experience, education, skills and projects. It doesn't rate your CV. You can edit anything it writes, or remove the file.

Transparency runs both directions: after an assessment is evaluated, you receive the reasoning about you.

Application, assessment and profile data is kept until you ask for it to be deleted, or until the role's data is removed by the hiring team. Some data cleans itself up automatically: accounts that were never confirmed are purged 30 days after the last confirmation email (90 days after sign-up at the latest), accounts that never finished securing themselves 30 days after their last sign-in, abandoned assessment sessions after 30 days, and abandoned visit analytics after 90 days. The copy of your profile shared with an application goes with its assessment session, or when your withdrawal from that role is processed. If you withdraw after your assessment was evaluated, the copy stays with that evaluation.

Deletion on request: ask by replying to any TalentOS email. Deletion removes your files first (your CVs and your profile photos, including the copies shared with applications), then every record. Complete within TalentOS, usually the same day.

Two honest boundaries: an email already delivered to your inbox is your own copy of your own data. We cannot reach into your mailbox to recall it. And a CV the hiring team already downloaded during evaluation is under their control, outside TalentOS. Deletion closes all further access immediately.

You can ask what we hold about you, and you can ask for it to be deleted. No forms, no friction: one email. If you believe our reasoning about you was wrong, reply and say so; the reasoning you receive exists precisely so you can challenge it.