Tipstyrs Privacy Policy
Last Updated: August 31, 2026
Tipstyrs is built around a simple idea: candidates should be able to share information about hiring processes without unnecessarily exposing their personal information.
This Privacy Policy explains what information Tipstyrs collects, how we use it, and the choices available to you when you use Tipstyrs.com.
1. Information We Collect
Information You Provide
When you submit a candidate experience, we may collect information such as:
- Company name
- Job title and job category
- Seniority level
- Job location
- Approximate application date
- How you applied
- Information about the hiring process
- Interview count and process duration
- Salary transparency
- Assessments or work samples requested
- Communication and follow-up information
- Hiring outcome
- Overall candidate experience
- Whether you would apply again
- Optional written comments
Tipstyrs is designed to publish candidate experiences anonymously. We do not intend to publicly display your name, email address, or other direct personal identifiers as part of a candidate experience.
Contact Information
We may collect your email address when you:
- Request notification about a company
- Join an employer beta or waitlist
- Contact Tipstyrs
- Participate in account verification or submission verification
- Subscribe to communications
Your email address will not be displayed publicly as part of a candidate experience.
Technical Information
When you use Tipstyrs, we may automatically collect technical information such as:
- IP address
- Browser type
- Device information
- Operating system
- Pages viewed
- Referring website
- Approximate geographic region
- Date and time of access
- Site interactions
We may use cookies, analytics tools, security tools, and similar technologies to collect this information.
2. How We Use Information
We may use information collected through Tipstyrs to:
- Publish aggregated candidate-experience insights
- Calculate Candidate Experience Scores
- Build company-level hiring-process benchmarks
- Improve our scoring methodology
- Identify trends in candidate experiences
- Moderate submissions
- Detect duplicate, fraudulent, manipulated, or abusive activity
- Respond to user inquiries
- Send requested company notifications
- Communicate with employer beta participants
- Improve the functionality and usability of Tipstyrs
- Protect Tipstyrs, our users, and third parties from misuse
- Comply with legal obligations
We may also use de-identified or aggregated information for research, reporting, benchmarking, and commercial products.
3. What We Publish
Tipstyrs may publish information derived from candidate submissions, including:
- Candidate Experience Scores
- Hiring-process timelines
- Number of interview rounds
- Salary-transparency statistics
- Communication ratings
- Reported ghosting rates
- Assessment requirements
- Candidate sentiment
- Aggregated trends by company, role, seniority, geography, or time period
We may also publish portions of written candidate comments after moderation.
Tipstyrs does not intentionally publish a candidate's name, email address, phone number, home address, or other direct personal identifiers as part of a public candidate experience.
4. Anonymity and Verification
Candidate experiences are published anonymously, but Tipstyrs may retain information internally that helps us validate submissions, identify abuse, prevent duplicate submissions, and protect the integrity of the platform.
In the future, Tipstyrs may offer optional verification methods. A verified submission may receive a verification indicator without revealing the candidate's identity publicly.
5. Information You Should Not Submit
Do not submit:
- Names or personal information about individual recruiters, interviewers, or employees
- Confidential or proprietary company information
- Trade secrets
- Social Security numbers or government identification numbers
- Financial account information
- Medical information
- Information about another person's protected or highly sensitive personal characteristics
- Passwords or login credentials
- Proprietary interview questions or assessment materials
- Information you are legally prohibited from sharing
Please focus your submission on your own experience with the hiring process.
6. How We Share Information
We may share information with service providers that help us operate Tipstyrs, such as providers of:
- Website hosting
- Databases
- Email delivery
- Analytics
- Fraud prevention
- Security
- Customer support
- Payment processing, if applicable in the future
These providers may process information only as necessary to perform services on our behalf.
We may also disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:
- Comply with law or legal process
- Enforce our Terms
- Investigate fraud or misuse
- Protect the rights, safety, or property of Tipstyrs, our users, or others
If Tipstyrs is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or sale of assets, information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
7. We Do Not Sell Candidate Contact Information
Tipstyrs does not sell individual candidate contact information to employers or recruiters.
Aggregated or de-identified candidate-experience information may be used in commercial benchmarking, analytics, employer intelligence, or related products.
8. Data Retention
We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to operate Tipstyrs, maintain data integrity, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent abuse, and enforce our agreements.
We may retain de-identified or aggregated information after identifiable information has been deleted.
9. Your Choices
Depending on where you live, you may have rights regarding your personal information, including the right to request:
- Access
- Correction
- Deletion
- Restriction of certain processing
- Information about how your data is used
You may also request that Tipstyrs review or remove a candidate experience you submitted.
To make a privacy request, contact us through the contact method listed on Tipstyrs.com.
We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.
10. Cookies and Analytics
Tipstyrs may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Operate the site
- Remember preferences
- Understand site traffic
- Measure product usage
- Detect fraud and abuse
- Improve the user experience
Where required by law, we will provide appropriate controls regarding non-essential cookies.
11. Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect information.
However, no website, database, or electronic transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
12. Children's Privacy
Tipstyrs is intended for adults participating in the employment market and is not directed to those under 18.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from those under 18.
13. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy as Tipstyrs evolves.
When material changes are made, we will update the "Last Updated" date and may provide additional notice where appropriate.
14. Contact
Questions about this Privacy Policy or your information can be submitted via Help@Tipstyrs.com.