Privacy Policy

This policy explains what personal data BeforeRound ("we") collects when you use beforeround.com, why we collect it, who we share it with and the choices you have. We have tried to write it plainly. If anything is unclear, email official@beforeround.com.

The short version

• We collect what we need to prepare you for interviews: your account details, the jobs you share, your CV if you add one, and the transcripts of your practice calls.
• Your voice is streamed to our AI provider to run the call. We do not record or store call audio. Your camera image never leaves your device.
• We do not sell your data, show ads, or use your content to train AI models.
• You can delete any role, or your whole account and everything in it, at any time.

What we collect

Account information

Your name, email address and a securely hashed password. If you sign in with Google, we receive your name, email address and profile picture from Google.

Job and CV information

Job links and descriptions you share, the text we extract from those pages, and the research and prep brief we generate. If you upload a CV, we store the file and the text extracted from it. CVs often contain personal details, so only include what you are comfortable sharing.

Interview data

When you start a call, your microphone audio is streamed directly from your browser to our AI provider so Ava can listen and respond in real time. We store the written transcript of the call, the call's timing, and the debrief generated from it. We do not keep audio recordings.

The camera preview on the call screen is shown only in your browser. It is never sent to us or to anyone else.

Payment information

Buying minutes is not open yet. When it opens, payments will be handled by a third party payment provider, which we will name on this page before any payment is taken. We will receive confirmation of your purchase, the amount, currency and a customer reference. We will never see or store your full card details.

Technical information

Standard server logs (IP address, browser type, pages requested, time) used for security and troubleshooting, and the cookies described in our Cookie Policy.

Why we use it

• To provide the service you asked for: research roles, run interviews, write debriefs, track your minutes. This is necessary to perform our contract with you.
• To keep the service secure and prevent abuse and fraud. This is our legitimate interest.
• To send account emails such as email confirmation, password resets and receipts. These are part of the service.
• To meet legal obligations, for example keeping payment records for tax purposes.

We do not use your data for advertising and we do not make decisions about you that have legal or similarly significant effects.

Who processes your data

We use a small number of trusted providers, each bound by a data processing agreement and only allowed to use your data to provide their service to us:

• AI service providers: power the voice interview, transcription, research and debrief writing. Under our agreements they may not use your data to train their models, and they delete it within a short period kept only for abuse monitoring.
• Hosting provider: runs our servers and stores our database.
• Google: sign in, only if you choose "Continue with Google".
• Web page reading service: loads public job pages from the link you paste. Only the job link is sent, never your personal data.
• Email provider: delivers account emails.
• Google Analytics: counts visits and page views, only if you accept analytics cookies.

Some of these providers are based in the United States. Where data leaves the UK or EEA, transfers are protected by standard contractual clauses or an equivalent safeguard. If you would like the names of the providers we use, email us and we will tell you.

How long we keep it

• Roles, CVs, transcripts and debriefs: until you delete them or your account.
• Payment records: for as long as tax law requires, normally six years, even after account deletion.
• Server logs: up to 30 days.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you can ask to access, correct, export or delete your personal data, object to or restrict how we use it, and withdraw consent where we rely on it. Most of this you can do yourself in Settings. For anything else, email official@beforeround.com and we will respond within 30 days. You also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.

Security

Data is encrypted in transit with TLS. Passwords are hashed. CV files are stored outside the public web folder and are only accessible to your account. Access to production systems is limited to the people who need it to run the service.

Children

BeforeRound is not intended for anyone under 16 and we do not knowingly collect their data.

Changes

If we change this policy in a meaningful way we will email you before the change takes effect. The date at the top shows when it was last updated.

Contact

BeforeRound. Email: official@beforeround.com.