Privacy policy

What we collect

• Account: name, email address, password (stored only as a one-way hash), account type, and your consent choices.
• Job seekers: phone, location, work status, experience, current role, notice period, skills, preferred locations, headline, summary, links, work history, education, and your CV file if you upload one.
• Employers: phone, designation, company details, and the jobs you post.
• Activity: applications, employer responses and messages, and security records such as sign-in sessions.

Why we use it

• To run your account and keep it secure.
• To send your application, profile and CV to the employers you apply to.
• To show your profile in employer candidate search, only if you turn on “Let employers find me”. Employers need a verified email to see your contact details or CV there.
• To send emails you asked for: verification, password reset, application updates and, if you opt in, job alerts. Application update emails have an unsubscribe link; job alerts can be turned off at any time in your profile.

Who can see it

Employers see your profile and CV when you apply to them, or when your profile is visible in candidate search. We do not sell your data. Data is stored on our own servers; emails are delivered through our email provider.

How long we keep it, and deleting your account

We keep your data while your account is open. You can delete your account at any time from Account & security. When you do:

• Your account, profile and CV are removed from Hiring Sea straight away, you are signed out everywhere, and employers can no longer see them.
• We keep an archived copy for 180 days — your account details, profile, work history, education, application history and CV — to prevent fraud and abuse and to deal with legal claims. Each deletion creates its own archive record. The archive is not visible to employers and is not linked to any new account you create.
• After 180 days the archived copy, including CV files, is deleted automatically.
• If you register again with the same email, you start with a completely new account.

Replaced or removed CVs are deleted unless an application you sent still uses them; those copies stay with that application while your account exists.

Your rights

You can see and correct most of your data in your profile and account pages. To ask for a copy of your data, for corrections, or for earlier deletion of an archived copy, email support@hiringsea.com. We may need to keep some records where the law requires it.

Security

Passwords are hashed, sessions expire and can be revoked, CV files are stored privately and only served to people allowed to see them, and all traffic is encrypted in transit.