Your data and privacy

Everything about your data lives in one place: Privacy & data, under Settings. Sign in and you’ll see every company that has anything on file for you. Open a link from a company’s email instead and you’ll see only that one company, with a banner telling you so. Every email you get through Staffer links to the privacy policies that apply and to a Manage your data page, so you always know where to go. If the link has expired, the page offers you a way back in.

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Companies with access to your data

Staffer lists every company that has ever touched your profile, whether you applied to them, they added you as a candidate, or they hold a contact address for you. For each one you’ll see what that company holds about you. That’s how many applications you have there, when it was last active, and any email address on file along with where it came from: found through a paid lookup the company ran, added by the company directly, or shared by you. Every action for a company sits in one menu next to it:

• Also future roles widens your consent, so this company can consider you for roles beyond the one you applied to.
• Withdraw consent pulls your consent for this company entirely. It clears your consent on every open application you have with them at once, meant to stop them from continuing to process you. This needs your profile to be fully confirmed. See Claim your profile.

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Remove a company’s access

Request revoke, in the same menu, opens a short form (a reason helps but isn’t required) with a Send revoke request button. You’ll see a Revoke pending badge until the company acts on it. Once the company approves it, your open applications there close and the contact details they added for you are deleted. They can still see your past applications, including notes and messages. To have those deleted too, ask the company to erase your data. You can only request this for a company that already has something of yours: an application, or a contact record. And if your profile is only partly confirmed, the request is saved but never actually reaches the company. Get fully confirmed first if you want it acted on.

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Download your data

Get a copy of your data is signed-in only. Click Download my data and you get a ZIP immediately, no waiting, no link to click later. It contains a short readme and one spreadsheet covering your profile, your claim history, every application, your answers to any screening steps, how you were scored, and which companies hold contact details for you.

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Delete your account

At the bottom, Request full erasure starts the process:

1. Your profile disappears from every company’s search and every public listing right away.
2. Nothing is actually deleted yet. You have 30 days to change your mind with Keep my data.
3. After 30 days, deletion runs automatically and can’t be undone: your profile, your applications, anything you’ve uploaded, and your ability to sign back in are all permanently removed.

This needs a fully confirmed profile, and you have to be signed in to request it. A private application link isn’t enough. If you’re only partly confirmed and file a request anyway, it’s recorded but nothing happens until you’re fully confirmed. A company you dealt with keeps a bare record: which stage each application reached and when, and how it was scored, so they can show their hiring process happened. Everything that identifies you is removed first: your name, contact details, messages, notes about you, and interview recordings and transcripts.

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How long a company keeps your data

Each company sets its own rules for how long it keeps old or inactive applications. If a company’s rules flag your application, you may get an email asking whether you’d like to renew your consent, with a one-click link, before anything is deleted. One rule is fixed and the same everywhere: recordings and transcripts from an interview are deleted six months after the application closes, no matter which company it was or what their own retention rules say. Nothing else about that step, like which stage it was and when it happened, is affected.

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Common questions