HirePotential Privacy Policy

Last updated: 19 August 2026

HirePotential ("the app", "we", "us") is developed by an independent developer. This policy explains what information the app collects, how it's used, and your choices.

What we collect

• Job description text you paste, upload (PDF or Word), or fetch via a URL, so the app can generate tailored interview themes and competency questions.
• Your CV text, pasted or uploaded (PDF or Word), used for CV Review and to compare against your LinkedIn profile in LinkedIn Review.
• Your LinkedIn profile, provided one of three ways: a profile URL we fetch, pasted text, or up to five screenshots you choose via the system photo picker. Screenshots are analysed directly by an AI vision model to judge photo presence, recommendations, and layout — the app itself never gets open access to your photo library, only the specific images you pick.
• Spoken answers you record during Rehearse Aloud and Mock Interview. These are transcribed to text using Apple's Speech framework — the app itself does not store the audio. Depending on your device and language settings, transcription may happen on-device or via Apple's own servers, governed by Apple's privacy practices, not ours.
• Your Story Bank entries (situation, task, action, result), only if you request AI feedback on one — writing and saving a story never sends it anywhere; it's sent only at the moment you tap for feedback.
• All of the above (job description, CV, LinkedIn profile text or screenshots, transcribed answers, and Story Bank entries you request feedback on) is sent to our backend (hosted on Microsoft Azure) to generate themes, questions, feedback, scores, and review suggestions using an AI model. This happens per-request — we do not maintain a database of your submissions.
• Basic app usage data stored only on your device: checklist progress, how many free rehearsal sessions you've used, your rehearsal and mock interview history (past scores, feedback, and transcripts, so you can revisit them), your saved roles (up to 5 — each with the job title, description, a summary, and a preview of generated questions), and your CV text. This never leaves your device and isn't linked to any account, because the app doesn't have user accounts or sign-in. Your LinkedIn profile content, and your CV Review and LinkedIn Review results, are not stored — only used for the one request that produces them, so reopening either review re-runs the comparison rather than showing a saved result.
• If you make the in-app purchase, payment itself is handled entirely by Apple — we never see or store your payment details. To recognise that a device has unlocked the paid features (and to correctly re-lock them if a purchase is later refunded), the app sends Apple's own signed proof of purchase to our backend, which verifies it and stores a simple paid/not-paid flag against that device — no billing information, just entitlement status.

What we don't collect

• No advertising or analytics tracking.
• No camera, location, or contacts access.
• No open photo library access — LinkedIn screenshots are picked one at a time through the system picker, which never grants the app broader access to your photos.
• No account or sign-in system — there is no persistent identity tied to your submissions.

Third parties

Job descriptions, CV text, LinkedIn profile text/screenshots, and transcribed answers are processed by Microsoft Azure (Azure AI Foundry) to generate results. This processing happens entirely within Azure's UK South region, so this content never leaves UK data centres. Microsoft acts as a data processor for this purpose and does not use this content to train its models. Microsoft is contractually bound, under the Microsoft Product Terms and its Data Processing Addendum, to data protection safeguards equivalent to our own obligations under UK GDPR — see Microsoft's own privacy and compliance terms for the full detail. In-app purchases are processed by Apple under Apple's own privacy practices; our backend also verifies purchases directly with Apple and receives refund/cancellation notifications from Apple's servers, solely to keep each device's entitlement status accurate.

Data retention

We don't operate a database of user submissions. Content sent for processing is used only to generate your immediate response and isn't retained by our backend afterward. The one exception is a simple entitlement record — whether a device has paid, tied to that device rather than to you personally — kept so the app doesn't need to re-verify your purchase on every request. On-device data (checklist progress, session counts, rehearsal and mock interview history, your saved roles, and CV text) stays on your device until you delete the app.

Children

HirePotential is not directed at children under 16, and we don't knowingly collect information from them.

Your rights

Since we don't retain a database of your submissions or operate accounts, there is very little personal data for us to hold beyond what's described above. If you have questions about this policy or how your data is handled, contact us via our Support page.

Changes

We'll update this policy as the app's features change.