Privacy Policy

What we collect

• Account info. Your name, email, and password. Used to identify you and authenticate sessions.
• Profile content. For seekers: your CV (uploaded file and parsed text), bio, skills, experience, education, desired categories, seniority, salary expectations, and preferred locations. For employers: company info and the job postings you create.
• Location. Coordinates you pick on the map for either your home location or per-job locations. Used to rank jobs and candidates by distance.
• Swipes and matches. Which jobs or candidates you swiped left or right, and the resulting mutual matches. Used to personalize ranking and to power the booking flow.
• Usage analytics. Anonymous-ish product events (screens viewed, swipe counts, errors) used to improve the product. Can be disabled per device — see "Your choices" below.
• Diagnostics. Crash reports and performance traces, used to fix bugs. Stack traces only — we don't capture form inputs or message bodies.

Why we collect it

• To run the matching algorithm and rank what you see.
• To detect a mutual match and open the interview booking flow.
• To prevent abuse and review reports.
• To improve the product based on real usage patterns.
• To contact you about your account when necessary.

What we don't do

• We don't sell your data.
• We don't share it with third parties for advertising or cross-app tracking.
• We don't use it to train external AI models. The AI services we use for matching process data on our behalf and are contractually prohibited from using it to train their own models.
• We don't run advertising in the app.

Third-party processors

To run Scout, we rely on a small set of trusted service providers, each handling a specific role on our behalf under data-processing terms:

• An authentication provider for account and session management.
• A managed database for storing your profile and app data, hosted in the EU.
• A cloud hosting provider for our web and API infrastructure.
• An AI service for the semantic matching embeddings.
• An analytics platform for anonymous-ish product usage events.
• An error and performance reporting service.
• Apple MapKit for location autocomplete and geocoding in the iOS app. Apple handles those queries; we receive only the final coordinates you pick.

If you need the current list of named subprocessors (for example to satisfy your own compliance obligations), email us at dbarabi5@gmail.com.

How long we keep it

Account and profile data is kept for as long as your account is active. When you delete your account, we remove your personal data within 30 days. Aggregated, non-identifying analytics may be retained longer to track product trends.

Your choices

• Access or export. Email dbarabi5@gmail.com and we'll send you a copy of your data within 30 days.
• Correction. You can edit most fields directly in the app (Profile → Edit Profile).
• Deletion. Profile → Settings → Delete Account. Removes your data within 30 days. You can also email us.
• Opt out of analytics. On first run we ask for analytics consent; you can change it later in Settings → Privacy. Opting out disables PostHog event collection for that device.

Children

Scout is for working-age adults and is not directed at children under 16. We do not knowingly collect data from people under 16. If you believe we have, email us and we will delete it.

Changes

If we materially change how we handle data, we'll update the "Last updated" date at the top and, when the change is significant, notify you in the app.