What we keep, and what we made sure not to.

1. What is public

• Your name, headline, pitch, role, skills, location and work preferences.
• Work samples you marked public, and the outcome text you wrote on them.
• Whether you are available, and roughly when you last confirmed it.
• A paid Spotlight rank, if you or somebody else bought one, and what it cost.

You choose all of it, and you can take any of it down. Turning off search indexing keeps your profile out of search engines and out of our sitemap.

2. What is never public

• Your email address and phone number. An employer sees a contact channel only after you accept an invitation, and only the one you chose.
• Your compensation expectations, unless you switched that on yourself.
• Work authorisation and sponsorship answers. An employer checking eligibility learns yes or no — never which countries, never the sponsorship flag.
• Why you declined an invitation. We ask so we can show you better roles; the company is never told.
• Anything you saved privately, and any role you looked at.

3. What we deliberately do not collect

This is the part worth reading, because it is a set of columns that do not exist rather than a promise about how we behave.

• No IP address and no user agent. The events table has nowhere to put them.
• No referrer. Where you came from is sorted into a group — search, social, direct — and the address itself is thrown away before anything is written. A stored referrer is somebody's browsing history sitting under another person's dashboard.
• No cross-day identity for visitors. An anonymous visitor is a hash salted with our key and today's date. It can answer "the same person, twice today?" and stops being able to answer "the same person as last week?" tomorrow — not even for us.
• No advertising profile, no data sales, no third-party trackers. Advertisers buy a surface. They never buy an audience, a list, or targeting.
• No naming who looked. Your dashboard shows counts and groups. An employer is named only when they wrote to you, because browsing is not consent.

4. Taking it with you, or deleting it

Both live in your settings.

• An export contains your data and only yours — never who reported you, never an employer's private notes, and never a supporter who chose to back you anonymously.
• The file is private, downloaded through a permission check rather than a shareable link, and deleted after 7 days.
• Deleting your account scrubs your identity everywhere it appears and removes you from every board immediately.

Two things survive deletion, and we would rather say so plainly than bury it: the financial record of anything bought or refunded, and safety reports other people made. Erasing either would destroy somebody else's record, not just yours.

5. Going quiet on your own

Availability expires after 30 days unless you confirm it. If you stop answering, you stop appearing — you do not have to do anything, and nobody has to be told. It is the setting most people actually want and the one most products make hardest to reach.

6. Asking us something

HireUs is operated by Oddly Serious Inc, which is responsible for everything on this page. Contact us and a person will answer. If you are signed in, use support so the conversation stays attached to your account.