HireTea Independent hiring research

Privacy

Privacy Policy

HireTea is a static information site for US job applicants. It does not require an account. Applicant tools process and, when you choose to save, retain records locally in your browser. HireTea does not transmit those entered values to a HireTea server.

Automated processing

Applicant input does not become editorial or training data

Source-audited publishing and accountable editing use public research inputs

Automated tools may support editorial work using public source material, but they do not receive values you enter into HireTea's browser-local applicant tools. Your posting checks, comparisons, and saved application records are not used to draft pages or train a model.

Analytics

Site analytics (Google Analytics 4)

What we collect

Page views, referring source, approximate geographic region, device class, and categorical interaction events such as official-source clicks, downloads, tool completion, local save or export actions, and page-helpfulness responses. Analytics page locations are reduced to the pathname, without query parameters or fragments. We do not collect names, addresses, application answers, job URLs, job IDs, locations, pay, schedules, notes, or any other values entered into the applicant tools.

How it is used

Aggregate analytics help us understand which company hubs and applicant planners people find useful. The data is not sold and is not used to identify individual visitors.

Opting out

If a Google Privacy & Messaging consent message is active and applies to you, use its privacy and cookie settings to change your choice. You can also use the Google Analytics Opt-out browser add-on or block analytics in your browser. Disabling analytics does not change the site content.

Advertising

Google AdSense and third-party advertising

Third-party vendors and cookies

HireTea may display Google AdSense advertising on selected pages when ad serving is enabled. Depending on consent and location, Google may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, or other identifiers for ad delivery, measurement, fraud prevention, and personalization.

Personalized advertising

Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet. Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.

European consent choices

For visitors in the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland, HireTea requires a Google-certified CMP before requesting personalized-ad consent. When the Google Privacy & Messaging consent message delivered by that CMP is active, it provides consent, refusal, and manage-options controls. This policy page stays free of the AdSense loader; its footer control returns to the home page, where “Privacy and cookie settings” can reopen the Google message so a visitor can change or withdraw a choice.

Consent Mode

Before a consent choice is available in the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland, HireTea defaults Google advertising and analytics consent signals to denied. Google tags may send limited, cookieless consent or measurement pings. The consent platform updates the signals to reflect the visitor's choice, and each purpose remains denied unless the visitor grants it.

What ad vendors collect

Standard data such as IP address, browser type, approximate location, and pages viewed. The current company research pages contain no applicant-response form fields, and values entered into local applicant tools are not sent to HireTea or an ad vendor.

Affiliate

Affiliate links and partner tracking

Current publication state

No affiliate links are published on the current public pages, and HireTea does not receive referral commissions from visits to the pages currently listed in the sitemap.

If partner links return later

A future partner link would be marked next to the link, use sponsored and nofollow attributes, and identify the commercial relationship before a reader chooses to leave HireTea.

Editorial independence

Potential commercial relationships do not determine which employers, guides, sources, or applicant workflows HireTea publishes.

Your choices

You can ignore any future partner link, block third-party cookies, or visit a third-party tool directly. Those choices do not change the site content.

Your inputs

Local applicant-tool fields and sensitive information

Stays in your browser

The local comparison worksheet, posting checks, evidence notes, and application-vault records are processed locally by JavaScript in your browser. Saved records may remain in local browser storage across sessions so you can return to them. They are not transmitted to a HireTea server or used to train a model. You can delete records in the relevant tool, clear the tool, or clear this site's browser storage.

Sensitive information

Do not enter sensitive personal information such as Social Security numbers, account credentials, protected medical information, full dates of birth, immigration documents, or screening answers into any applicant tool. Use short evidence notes rather than private application records, especially on a shared device.

Children

HireTea is intended for adult job applicants. The site is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Rights and retention

Privacy choices

Do Not Track

HireTea does not currently change behavior in response to browser Do Not Track signals, but visitors can block analytics and ad cookies in browser settings.

GDPR-style requests

Visitors may request access, correction, or deletion of personal information if HireTea has any responsive record connected to the request.

California privacy requests

California visitors may request information about personal data handling and ask for deletion of personal information where applicable.

Retention

Analytics and ad data are retained according to the settings and policies of the relevant third-party providers. Locally saved applicant-tool records stay in that browser until you delete them or clear site storage. Emails are kept as long as needed to handle the request.

External services

Links and third-party sites

Employer and government links

HireTea links to employer careers pages, company policy pages, government sources, and other third-party sites. Those sites control their own privacy practices.

Embedded and third-party tools

Analytics, advertising, and browser features may be provided by third parties. Their privacy policies apply to their own data collection and processing.

Contact

Questions or removal requests

Privacy questions

Email jeongyuseck@gmail.com for privacy questions, removal requests, or to report a privacy issue.

Updates to this policy

This policy may be updated to reflect changes in the site, ad tech, or applicable law. The most recent version is always at this URL.