Privacy

What an employer can see

Your profile and contact details, and only if you let them. The switch is “Let recruiters find me” in Settings on your dashboard. It starts on for people who join now; if you joined earlier, it is however you left it. You can turn it off at any time and it takes effect immediately.

With it on, a recruiter hiring for a role that matches your profile can see your name, experience, the role you want and your pay target. A recruiter who uses a credit on you also gets your email address and phone number, so they can contact you directly.

Your current company never sees you. Tell us where you work and that company is hidden from you automatically, whatever the switch says, and the hiding moves with you when you change jobs. It covers that company only, not its parent or sister companies, so add any of those yourself under “Also hide from”.

With the switch off you do not appear in any recruiter’s results at all. Not anonymized, not aggregated: absent.

What we never do

• We do not sell your data. Not to employers, not to recruiters, not to anyone.
• We do not show advertising, and we run no third-party analytics or tracking scripts. Nothing on this site reports your browsing to anyone else.
• We do not email your current employer, or tell any employer that you have an account.

People who are not members

Employers using our candidate search can also find professional profiles: the work history and contact details of people in medical sales, which we license from a people-data provider. Members never appear this way. If you are a member with “Let recruiters find me” off, you are not in any recruiter’s results at all.

If you are not a member and want to be left out of these searches, email [email protected] with your LinkedIn link or email address. From then on you are not shown to any employer here, and your contact details are not given out.

What we count

We count page views ourselves, on our own server, with no script and no cookie. For each page we keep which page it was, the site that linked you here if there was one, and any campaign tag on the link.

A page view does not record who you are, even when you are signed in, and we do not keep your IP address or browser details. To count how many different people visited on a given day, we turn those into a code that changes every day. The key that makes it is deleted when the day ends, after which the code cannot be traced back to anyone, us included.

When you click Apply, we count the click for that employer and job, with the same daily code and also without recording who you are, so we can tell how many people clicked rather than how many clicks there were. The link to the employer may carry a tag naming us as the source, so their own system can see the visit came from here.

When you are signed in as a member, we also note which days you used The Lobby and which parts of it: jobs, companies, events, articles or your account, and whether you searched or applied that day. We never note which jobs, companies or employers you looked at or applied to. It tells us how many members come back each week and each month, and we keep it for 25 months.

When we email you news about The Lobby (not the codes and notices your account needs), we count whether each email was delivered, opened and clicked. We count emails, not people: we keep no record of who opened or clicked what. Opens are counted by a small image in the email, and links pass through our email provider, Amazon, on the way to the page. Every one of those emails has an unsubscribe link, and you can turn them off in Settings at any time.

When you ask for a code to set a password or confirm your email, we count the request and whether the code was used, so we can see where people get stuck. We keep no record of who asked: as with page views, your address becomes a code that changes every day.

Cookies

One, and only when you sign in: a session cookie that keeps you signed in. It holds nothing but your account reference and is not readable by scripts. There is no advertising cookie and no analytics cookie, because there is no advertising and no third-party analytics. Fonts are served from this site rather than a font network, so loading a page here does not tell anyone else you were reading it.

Your résumé

It is used to match you to roles, and to show you why a role matched. Uploading one does not change who can see you. That is the separate switch above. You can replace it at any time from your dashboard. Your profile photo, if you add one, is shown only to you.

Leaving

To drop out of recruiter results entirely, turn “Let recruiters find me” off in Settings on your dashboard. It takes effect immediately and you disappear from every recruiter’s results.

To delete your account, use Delete account at the bottom of Settings. It asks for your password, then removes your name, phone number, photo and profile, your résumé and everything we read from it, your saved searches and alerts, saved jobs, lesson progress and your hidden-company list. Seats you hold at events still to come are given up, so the next person waiting gets them, and anything a recruiter saved or noted about you goes too. Your email address is released, so you can join again with it later.

What stays never named you: page and Apply counts, past event attendance, and anything you contributed without your name, such as a company review. One thing is not automatic yet: the original résumé file you uploaded. Email [email protected] and we will remove it and tell you when it is gone.