TalentBharat uses personal information to provide job-search and hiring workflows. You can manage key visibility, recruiter-contact, notification, and personalization choices in Settings.
1. Scope of this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how TalentBharat collects, uses, stores, shares, protects, and deletes personal data when job seekers, employers, recruiters, company team members, and visitors use our India-focused job portal, APIs, account tools, job marketplace, application workflows, notifications, interviews, and support features. TalentBharat is operated for internship and full-time hiring opportunities in India. Employers that receive candidate applications may separately control their own copy of candidate information under applicable Indian law and their own privacy obligations.
2. Personal data we collect
- Account and verification data: name, email address, phone number, password hash, account role, verification status, OTP records, and login credentials.
- Job-seeker profile data: Indian location, date of birth, gender, work-authorization status such as Indian citizen, professional summary, preferred role, experience, salary expectation, notice period, availability, work mode, skills, education, profile photo, portfolio, and LinkedIn links.
- Resume and application data: uploaded resume files and metadata, saved jobs, applications, application status, job details, and relevant communications.
- Employer and company data: representative identity, company-domain email, company profile, website, location, leadership contacts, logo, banner, gallery, industry, company size, social links, team members, and job postings.
- Interview and notification data: proposed and selected interview slots, time zone, interview details, Vedameet and calendar links, notification state, reminder schedules, and recordings of Vedameet interviews where recording is enabled for evaluation and recruitment purposes.
- Preferences and activity: visibility, recruiter-contact, communication, security, personalization, job-alert, and activity-tracking choices.
- Technical data: request, device, browser, IP, diagnostic, security, and session information produced when the Platform is accessed.
3. Lawful purpose, consent, and legitimate use
We process personal data for lawful purposes connected with operating TalentBharat, including account creation, authentication, job discovery, applications, employer hiring workflows, interviews, security, support, legal compliance, and service improvement. Where consent is required, we ask for it through the relevant form, setting, cookie banner, or account action. You may withdraw optional consent through Settings, cookie controls, or Help & Support, but withdrawal may limit features that depend on that data.
4. Storage, database, and infrastructure providers
Account records, profiles, applications, jobs, interviews, notification records, OTP audit records, and preferences are stored in our application database, currently PostgreSQL through Prisma, or an equivalent managed relational database such as MySQL or PostgreSQL if configured for a deployment. Uploaded resumes, profile photos, company logos, banners, and gallery images may be stored in AWS S3 or another configured cloud object-storage provider. These systems may be hosted in India or other permitted locations, with contractual and technical safeguards where required. We use these systems to host the website, protect accounts, deliver requested services, maintain backups, and support operational reliability.
5. How personal data is collected
We collect information directly when you register, verify an email or phone number, build a profile, upload a file, subscribe to job updates, save or apply for a job, publish a company profile or job, manage an applicant, or schedule and confirm an interview. We also receive data through Google sign-in when you choose it, from employers and candidates participating in a hiring workflow, and from job-data providers used to display third-party opportunities. Technical and security data may be collected automatically when you use the Platform.
6. How we use personal data
- Create, authenticate, secure, recover, and administer job-seeker and employer accounts.
- Verify email addresses, phone numbers, company domains, and company information.
- Display jobs, companies, profiles, applications, saved jobs, and relevant search results.
- Allow authorized employers to review applicants and manage legitimate hiring workflows.
- Send requested OTPs, password-reset messages, job alerts, application updates, interview invitations, confirmations, and reminders.
- Create interview slots, Vedameet links, and calendar actions after the applicable workflow is completed.
- When an employer schedules an interview, support Vedameet interview sessions that may be recorded where recording is enabled, including for candidate evaluation, hiring review, and recruitment workflow purposes.
- Honor profile visibility, resume visibility, recruiter contact, notification, and personalization settings.
- Prevent fraud and abuse, investigate errors, enforce our Terms, and comply with legal obligations.
- Measure and improve reliability, usability, search relevance, and platform security.
7. Job-seeker visibility and employer access
Job-seeker information is not employer account data. Authorized employers may receive the candidate information needed to review an application or use permitted recruiting features, subject to the job seeker's visibility and contact settings. Resume visibility and profile visibility can be managed in Settings. When supplied, Indian citizenship or work authorization status is visible to authorized employers reviewing the candidate. Employer credentials, private company-team data, passwords, internal account details, and unrelated applicant records are not exposed to job seekers. Employers must use candidate information only for legitimate recruitment and are independently responsible for information they lawfully download or retain.
8. When personal data is disclosed
- To employers and candidates: as necessary for applications, applicant review, status updates, interviews, and hiring communications.
- To service providers: infrastructure, database, storage, email, AWS SNS or configured SMS delivery, authentication, calendar, company-data, analytics, security, and support providers acting for the Platform.
- To Vedameet: when interview meeting functionality is used, including Vedameet interview sessions that may be recorded where recording is enabled for evaluation and recruitment purposes, subject to Vedameet's own terms and privacy practices.
- For legal and safety reasons: when reasonably necessary to comply with law, valid legal process, protect users, investigate fraud, or enforce agreements.
- For a business transaction: in a merger, financing, acquisition, restructuring, or transfer of assets, subject to appropriate safeguards and notice where required.
- With your direction: when you intentionally connect, export, share, or authorize information through a Platform feature.
9. Advertising, sharing, opt out, and automated features
TalentBharat does not sell personal data for money. If advertising, analytics, measurement, or partner tools are enabled, those tools may use cookies, device identifiers, IP addresses, browsing activity, or similar data to measure campaigns and improve the Platform. You can manage optional cookies through Your Privacy Choices in the footer or contact info@vedastech.in. Job matching, search, filtering, profile-strength, and recommendation features help organize information; they do not make final hiring decisions.
11. Communications and your choices
Job seekers can manage application emails, interview alerts, job matches, saved-search alerts, recruiter messages, newsletters, promotions, push notifications, job-alert frequency, profile visibility, resume visibility, recruiter contact, personalization, and activity settings from the Settings page. Newsletter subscriptions may be managed separately. Essential security, verification, password-reset, legal, and service messages may still be sent when needed to operate or protect an account.
12. Retention and deletion
We retain information only for as long as reasonably needed to provide the requested services, maintain hiring and security records, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and satisfy legal obligations. Verification and password-reset codes expire and are retained only as needed for security and audit controls. Deleting an account does not necessarily remove copies already lawfully received by an employer, records required by law, fraud and security records, or limited backup copies that age out under normal backup schedules.
13. Security safeguards
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards, including role-based access controls, authentication middleware, hashed passwords and one-time codes, restricted employer and job-seeker routes, and validation of sensitive operations. No online system can guarantee absolute security. Keep passwords and OTPs confidential, use accurate contact information, log out of shared devices, and report suspected unauthorized access.
14. Your rights under Indian privacy law
- Access: request information about the personal data we process about you.
- Correction: ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
- Erasure: request deletion of personal data when retention is no longer required for the relevant purpose or legal obligation.
- Consent withdrawal: withdraw optional consent for non-essential processing, subject to feature limitations.
- Grievance redressal: contact us about privacy concerns before approaching the Data Protection Board where applicable.
- Nomination: nominate another person to exercise rights in the event of death or incapacity where supported by applicable law and account verification.
15. Exercising privacy rights
You can correct much of your information through Profile, Personal Information, Company Profile, and Settings. Other access, correction, erasure, consent-withdrawal, grievance, or nomination requests can be submitted through Help & Support while signed in or by emailing info@vedastech.in.
We may verify your identity, account ownership, company authority, registered email, mobile number, or other account identifier before completing a request. We aim to respond within a reasonable period and within timelines required by applicable Indian law.
16. Sensitive data, children, and India-focused use
Do not upload Aadhaar numbers, PAN numbers, passport details, financial-account credentials, medical records, caste or religion information, or other sensitive information unless a specific lawful Platform workflow requests it. TalentBharat is intended for people legally able to seek work or conduct hiring and is not directed to children under 18. Because this is an India-based job website, job locations, work authorization, support, and hiring workflows are designed primarily for India.
17. External jobs, links, and services
Some jobs, apply links, company information, authentication tools, meeting tools, calendar services, and communications are supplied by third parties. When you leave TalentBharat or submit information directly to another party, that party's privacy notice applies. Review external terms before providing information. TalentBharat is not responsible for independent third-party privacy practices.
18. Policy updates and contact
We may update this Policy to reflect Platform, provider, security, or legal changes. The revised date will appear above, and material changes will be communicated through the Platform or registered contact details where required. Privacy questions, rights requests, and security concerns should be submitted through Help & Support or by emailing info@vedastech.in. Do not include a password, OTP, or unnecessary sensitive information in a support request.