Privacy policy

Effective date: November 4, 2026.

In this policy, “Joined,” “we,” “us,” and “our” mean the team that runs Joined and Scout, and “you” means anyone who visits or uses them. “Personal information” means information that identifies you or can reasonably be linked to you.

Joined is a job search and hiring app. People use it to find jobs, track applications and interviews, and, where hiring features are available, to post roles and review applicants. Joined is for finding jobs and hiring people. It does not create or edit images.

You give us all of this yourself, except billing details, which go to our payment processor, and interview and message details, which a company can also add.

Work authorization, such as whether you can work in a country or need visa sponsorship, can be sensitive. You choose whether to provide it. We use it to show jobs that fit and to rank them, and we share it with a company only as part of an application you send.

When you choose Sign in with Google, Joined asks Google for the basic profile scopes and nothing more:

These are Google’s basic, non-sensitive sign-in scopes. Joined does not request any sensitive or restricted Google scope.

Joined stores your Google account ID, your name, your email address, and whether Google has verified that email address. Google’s response can include other basic profile details, such as a profile picture address, your language setting, or the domain of a workplace account. Joined does not store or use them.

We use the information from Google only to provide and secure the Joined and Scout features you asked for:

Joined’s use and transfer of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

In line with those requirements, we use Google user data only to provide or improve the user-facing features described in this policy. We transfer it only to provide those features, to comply with the law, to protect the security of the service, or as part of a merger or sale after people are notified. People on our team do not read Google user data unless you ask us to, it is needed for a security or abuse investigation, the law requires it, or the data is combined so that it no longer identifies you.

The hosting and infrastructure providers that run our systems store this data on our behalf and may not use it for their own purposes. See How we share information.

We keep your Google account ID, name, email address, and verified flag while your account is open. When you delete your account in Settings, we remove them from our live systems. See How long we keep information.

We do not collect biometric identifiers, such as face or fingerprint templates, today. If we add identity or liveness checks, we will update this policy first and ask for your consent where the law requires it.

An employer that receives your information is responsible for how it uses it. It handles that information under its own privacy policy and the law, and it may keep its copy after you delete your Joined account.

We use service providers who process information on our instructions to run Joined. They may use it only to provide their service to us.

We disclose personal information when we believe the law requires it, to respond to valid legal process, to protect the rights, safety, and property of people and of Joined, or to detect and prevent fraud, abuse, and security problems.

If Joined is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets, personal information may be transferred. We will tell you before it becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Browser storage on your device keeps your “mark applied automatically” preference, and the notes and reminders you add to an application.

To use a right that Settings does not cover, write to support@joinedhq.com from the email address on your account. We may ask you to confirm your identity before we act. We aim to answer within 30 days, and we will tell you if we need more time. We do not charge a fee unless a request is clearly unfounded or excessive, and we will not treat you differently for using your rights. You can ask an authorized agent to make a request for you, and we may ask for proof of the authorization.

An employer decides why and how it uses the applicant information it receives, so it is responsible for that use. Our terms of use require employers to use applicant information only for hiring, to follow equal-opportunity and privacy laws, and not to sell it. Joined does not collect facial images or run face recognition.

For Scout we collect your account details, the job leads you submit and their review status, your earnings, and what we need to pay you: your legal name, country, tax-form details, and payout method. Before a payout we run identity, tax, and sanctions checks. The screening provider receives only your user ID, country, and tax-form type. A payout provider handles the transfer.

The Scout browser extension reads job details from the page you choose to capture, and only when you start a capture. It does not read your browsing history or run in the background. It sends data only to Joined’s own Scoutwell website and Scout API, and it does not include advertising or unrelated analytics.

Joined is the controller of the personal information described in this policy. You have the right to access your personal information, to have it corrected or deleted, to restrict or object to certain processing, to receive it in a portable format, and to withdraw consent at any time. The legal bases for our processing are in How we use your information. You can write to us to use these rights, and you have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.

California law gives California residents the right to know what personal information we collect, to access and delete it, to correct it, and to limit the use of sensitive personal information. Over the past 12 months we collected the categories below. We do not sell personal information and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

We use sensitive personal information only to provide the features you ask for. California residents can use their rights through Settings or by writing to us, as described in Your choices and rights.

Residents of other states with privacy laws, such as Colorado, Connecticut, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Virginia, can ask to access, correct, delete, and obtain a copy of their personal information, and to opt out of the sale or targeted advertising of it, which we do not do. If we decline your request, you can ask us to reconsider by writing to us with the subject line “Appeal.”