Privacy Policy
How we protect your personal data
Last updated: 2026-01-16
1. Data Controller
The controller of your personal data is:
2. Data We Collect
We collect the following categories of data:
- Identity Data: Name, date of birth, ID document during verification.
- Contact Data: Email address, phone number, postal address.
- Professional Data: Employment history, skills, reference evaluations.
- Account Data: Login ID, encrypted password, preferences.
- Technical Data: IP address, browser type, login logs.
3. Legal Basis for Processing
We process your data on the following legal bases:
- Contract Performance: To provide our reference verification services.
- Consent: For marketing communications (withdrawable at any time).
- Legitimate Interest: Platform security, fraud prevention.
- Legal Obligation: Accounting and tax data retention.
4. How We Use Your Data
We use your data to:
- Create and manage your account
- Verify your identity through our certified partner
- Collect and aggregate evaluations from your references
- Generate your professional reference score
- Share your verified information with authorised employers
- Send you important notifications
- Improve security and prevent fraud
5. Data Sharing
❌ We never sell your personal data.
We share your data only in the following cases:
- Authorised Employers: Only with your explicit consent.
- Verification Partners: IDnow for identity verification.
- Technical Providers: Hosting, payments (contractually bound to protect your data).
- Authorities: If required by law.
6. Data Retention
We retain your data for the following periods:
| Data Type | Duration |
|---|---|
| Account data | While account is active |
| Professional references | While account is active |
| Billing data | 10 years (legal requirement) |
| Security logs | 1 year |
7. Your GDPR Rights
Under the GDPR and UK DPA 2018, you have the following rights:
- Access: Know what data we hold about you.
- Rectification: Correct inaccurate data.
- Erasure: Request deletion of your data.
- Portability: Receive your data in a machine-readable format.
- Object: Object to certain processing.
- Restriction: Limit processing in certain cases.
How to Exercise Your Rights
Send your request to privacy@open-hr.fr with a copy of ID. We respond within 30 days.
8. Data Security
We implement appropriate security measures:
- Encryption: Sensitive data encrypted at rest (CSFLE) and in transit (TLS 1.3).
- Identity Verification: Via IDnow, certified eIDAS and KYC/AML compliant.
- Access Control: Limited, authenticated and logged access.
- Secure Hosting: Certified cloud infrastructure with backups.
9. International Transfers
Your data is hosted within the European Union.
Any transfer outside the EU/UK is governed by adequacy decisions, standard contractual clauses (SCCs), or the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF).
10. Contact & Complaints
For any questions about your personal data:
Email: privacy@open-hr.fr
Supervisory Authority:
ICO - Information Commissioner's Office (UK) or CNIL (France)