Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 12, 2026

Overview

Quaerent is committed to protecting your privacy. This platform is designed to allow users to share hiring experiences anonymously, without requiring personal identification.

We only collect and process data that is necessary to operate, secure, and improve the platform.

Information we collect

We may collect the following types of information:

content you voluntarily submit (reports, feedback)
account data, if you create an account: an email address, which is the only direct identifier we store. We do not ask for your name, your resume, or your phone number.
tracking data you enter in your tracker (applications, statuses, dates, notes, job details). This data is private to your account.
technical data (browser type, device, approximate location)
usage data (pages visited, interactions)
server logs (IP address, browser type, device type) retained for security purposes

We do not require users to provide names, emails, or any personally identifiable information to submit a report.

Creating an account requires an email address. Published data is anonymous and aggregated. Account data is pseudonymous: it is tied to your email and visible only to you.

Cookies and tracking

Quaerent does not use third-party advertising or analytics trackers.

We may use essential cookies or session tokens strictly necessary to operate the platform (e.g. authentication state). No personal data is shared with advertising networks or data brokers.

How we use data

We use collected data to:

provide the features you use, including your tracker and any AI assistant you choose to connect
publish and display user-submitted reports
maintain platform security and prevent abuse
review submissions to protect privacy and safety
improve platform performance and user experience

We do not sell personal data. Data may be used in aggregated and anonymized form to generate insights and statistics.

Content and anonymity

Quaerent is built around anonymous contributions. Users are responsible for ensuring that the content they submit does not include sensitive personal information about themselves or others.

Submissions may be reviewed to protect privacy, reduce harm, and prevent identifiable or sensitive information from being published.

Connected AI assistants

You can connect an AI assistant (such as Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini) to your Quaerent account through MCP, an open standard. The connection uses OAuth: you sign in on quaerent.com, you see what access is requested, and you approve or decline.

What a connected assistant can access.

Only your own account data, within the scopes you approved: your tracked applications and prospects, briefings derived from them, and company data that is already published on quaerent.com. It cannot access another user’s data, and it cannot see anything about a company beyond its public page.

What a connected assistant can change.

A connected assistant can create or update entries in your tracker, but every change requires your explicit confirmation in the conversation before it is saved. Nothing in your tracker is ever marked as ghosted automatically, by Quaerent or by a connected assistant.

What the assistant’s platform receives.

When you connect, the client application receives basic identity information about your account, including your email address, as part of the sign-in. Beyond that, tool responses never include your email: the assistant does not need it to help you. Your resume is never part of this flow. Quaerent does not receive, store, or see your resume.

Your conversations stay on the assistant’s platform.

Quaerent only receives the requests the assistant makes to your tracker. What you write to your assistant is governed by that provider’s privacy policy, not by Quaerent.

Access tokens and revocation.

Connections use short-lived access tokens with rotating refresh tokens. You can revoke a connected assistant at any time from your account, under Connected apps. Revoking a connection immediately blocks the assistant from getting renewed access. Any access token it still holds stops working within the hour.

Data retention

Submitted content may be stored and displayed indefinitely as part of the platform’s purpose to provide transparency over time.

We may remove or modify content if it violates our policies or upon valid request.

OAuth tokens issued to connected assistants are short-lived. Revoking a connection blocks renewal, and any active token expires within the hour.

Your rights

You can contact us at any time regarding:

questions about your data
requests for content removal
privacy concerns or complaints

We will review all requests and respond as quickly as reasonably possible.

Applicable regulations

Quaerent is operated from the United States and complies with applicable data protection regulations, including the GDPR where applicable to users in the European Union, and the CCPA where applicable to California residents.

If you are located in the EU or California and wish to exercise your rights (access, deletion, portability), please contact us at privacy@quaerent.com. We will respond within 30 days.

Contact

For any privacy-related inquiries, you can contact us at:

privacy@quaerent.com