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Privacy Policy

Last updated 30 August 2026. Effective on the date first posted.

  1. Scope and Who We Are
  2. Information We Collect
  3. What We Deliberately Do Not Collect
  4. How We Use Information
  5. How Information Is Shared
  6. What We Never Do
  7. Cookies, Storage, and Tracking
  8. Email, Frequency, and Unsubscribing
  9. How Long We Keep Information
  10. Security
  11. Your California Privacy Rights
  12. Do Not Sell or Share, and Global Privacy Control
  13. Residents of Other States
  14. Children
  15. Notice to Employers About Applicant Data
  16. Where Information Is Processed
  17. Changes to this Policy
  18. How to Contact Us

This Privacy Policy explains what Metanlytics LLC, a California limited liability company doing business as Bolt Hiring ("we," "us," or "our"), collects when you use bolthiring.com (the "Service"), why we collect it, and what you can do about it. It is written to be read, not to be survived.

The short version. Job seekers give us an email address and a few filters. We use them to send matching job alerts and nothing else. We do not sell or share your information, we do not run advertising or analytics trackers, we do not ask for a resume or a phone number, and employers never receive our subscriber list.

1. Scope and Who We Are

This Policy covers the Service. It does not cover an employer's own website, application system, or hiring process, even when you reach them through a posting we delivered. Once you contact an employer, their privacy practices apply, not ours.

2. Information We Collect

From job seekers

  • Email address. The only identifier we require. Usually you give it to us yourself. An employer may also put your address forward, in which case we send you one invitation naming that employer and nothing further unless you confirm. Declining closes your address to every employer on the Service, not only to the one that put it forward.
  • Filters: the location you select, the roles you choose, any skills you add, and whether you want a daily or weekly digest.
  • Subscription status: when you confirmed, and whether you have unsubscribed.
  • A random token we generate to identify your subscription in the links we email you, so you can change your filters or unsubscribe without an account or a password.

From employers

  • Work email address, used to sign you in by emailed link. Company domains only.
  • Company details you enter: company name, your name, website, and optionally an EIN or DUNS number, which we treat as confidential business information and never publish.
  • Job postings you submit, including any description and requirements. Postings are published, so treat their contents as public.

Collected automatically

  • A one-way hash of your IP address when you submit the signup form, used solely to rate limit abuse. The hash is salted, and we do not store the address itself.
  • Ordinary server logs kept by our hosting provider for security and reliability.
  • Email delivery events from our email provider, such as whether a message was delivered, bounced, or reported as spam. We use these to protect deliverability for everyone on the list.

3. What We Deliberately Do Not Collect

We do not ask for or accept, and the Service has no field for: resumes or CVs, phone numbers, postal addresses, dates of birth, work history, education, photographs, government identification numbers, immigration or citizenship status, race, ethnicity, gender, disability, health information, or any other sensitive personal information. Job seekers do not create an account and do not set a password.

Where a posting states a work authorization requirement, that requirement is the employer's and applies to their process. We do not collect or hold any job seeker's work authorization status.

4. How We Use Information

  • To send the job alerts you asked for, matched to your filters.
  • To send the confirmation email that activates your subscription, and to honor unsubscribes.
  • To let you change your filters through the link in your emails.
  • To sign employers in, review first postings, and operate the posting feed.
  • To prevent abuse, spam, and fraudulent postings, and to enforce our Terms.
  • To keep the Service secure, working, and delivered to inboxes rather than spam folders.
  • To comply with law and respond to lawful requests.

We do not use your information to build advertising profiles, and we do not make automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects about you. Matching decides which emails you receive and nothing more: it never decides who is considered for a role. We do not rank, score, or recommend you to anyone, we do not tell employers you exist, and every decision about whom to contact or interview is made by the employer without any input from us.

5. How Information Is Shared

We share personal information only with service providers who process it on our behalf, under contract, and only as needed to run the Service. Those categories are:

  • a cloud database provider, which stores subscriptions, employer records, and postings;
  • a website hosting provider, which serves the Service and keeps operational logs;
  • an email delivery provider, which sends confirmations, alerts, and sign-in links; and
  • if and when employer subscriptions begin, a payment processor, which would handle billing details directly. We would not receive or store card numbers.

We may also disclose information if required by law or valid legal process, to protect our rights, safety, or property or those of others, or in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets, in which case we will give notice before your information becomes subject to a different policy.

A current list of our service providers is available on request at info@bolthiring.com.

6. What We Never Do

  • We never sell personal information, and never have.
  • We never share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.
  • We never give employers our subscriber list, in whole or in part. An employer cannot see who received their posting, how many people received it, or any subscriber's address.
  • We never rent, trade, or disclose your email address to third parties for their own marketing.

7. Cookies, Storage, and Tracking

The Service runs no advertising trackers, no analytics trackers, and no third-party cookies. We do not use pixels or beacons in job alert emails to track opens.

We use two things only:

  • Employer sign-in storage. When an employer signs in, the session is held in your browser's session storage and cleared when the tab closes.
  • An administrator cookie. A single strictly necessary cookie for our own staff console. It is not set for ordinary visitors.

Because we do not track you, there is no advertising consent banner to click.

8. Email, Frequency, and Unsubscribing

We use confirmed opt-in: no alert is sent until you click the confirmation link. You choose daily or weekly, and on a day with no matching postings we send nothing at all.

Every alert carries a one-click unsubscribe link, which takes effect immediately with no confirmation step and no sign-in. Employers also receive service messages about their account and postings; these are transactional and continue while the account is active.

Anyone holding a link from your inbox can change or cancel your subscription, which is what lets us avoid passwords. Treat those emails as you would any other personal message.

9. How Long We Keep Information

  • Subscriptions: kept while active. If you unsubscribe we keep a minimal record that you did so, so that we do not email you again by mistake. You may ask us to erase it entirely.
  • Job postings: displayed for up to 30 days, then withdrawn from public view. We retain the record for our own operational and legal purposes.
  • Employer records: kept while the account is in use and for a reasonable period afterwards for tax, accounting, and legal reasons.
  • Rate limiting hashes: pruned after 24 hours.
  • Server and email logs: retained on our providers' standard schedules.

10. Security

Traffic is encrypted in transit. Database access is governed by row-level security policies, so the public key used by the website can read only published postings and can never read the subscriber list. Administrative access is password protected and separate from ordinary use. A password is optional for both job seekers and employers, and either can use emailed sign-in links instead and never set one. Where a password exists it is held by our authentication provider as a salted hash, never in plain text and never in the table that holds subscriber addresses and filters. We cannot read it, and a password reset replaces it rather than revealing it.

No system is perfectly secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. If a breach affects your information we will notify you as required by California law.

11. Your California Privacy Rights

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, California residents have the right to:

  • Know what personal information we have collected, the sources, the purposes, and the categories of recipients;
  • Access a copy of it in a portable form;
  • Correct inaccurate personal information;
  • Delete personal information, subject to legal exceptions;
  • Opt out of sale or sharing, which does not arise here because we do neither;
  • Limit the use of sensitive personal information, which does not arise here because we do not collect any; and
  • be free from discrimination for exercising these rights. We will not degrade the Service or charge you differently for doing so.

To exercise any of these, email info@bolthiring.com from the address you subscribed with, or use the preferences link in any alert. We will verify a request by confirming control of that address, which is the only identifier we hold. We respond within 45 days and may extend once by a further 45 days with notice. An authorized agent may act for you with written permission that we can verify.

Shine the Light. California Civil Code section 1798.83 lets residents request details of personal information disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing. We make no such disclosures.

12. Do Not Sell or Share, and Global Privacy Control

We do not sell personal information and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, as those terms are defined by California law. There is therefore nothing to opt out of, and no "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" mechanism is required. Because we run no trackers, an opt-out preference signal such as Global Privacy Control has nothing to act on here.

13. Residents of Other States

Residents of states with comprehensive privacy laws, including Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon, and Montana, have broadly similar rights to access, correct, delete, and obtain a copy of their personal information, and to opt out of targeted advertising, sale, and certain profiling. We extend the rights in Section 11 to all users regardless of where they live. Use the same contact route, and where your state provides an appeal process for a refused request, you may appeal by replying to our response.

14. Children

The Service is for people aged 18 and over and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If you believe a child has subscribed, email us and we will delete the record.

15. Notice to Employers About Applicant Data

Applications go directly to you. We do not receive, store, or forward resumes, applications, or candidate materials. When a candidate contacts you, you are the controller or business with respect to their personal information, and your own privacy obligations apply, including any notice at collection required of California employers.

16. Where Information Is Processed

We operate in the United States and our providers process information there. If you use the Service from outside the United States, you understand that your information will be processed in the United States, where privacy laws may differ from those of your country.

17. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Policy. If a change is material we will give reasonable notice, such as by email or a notice on the Service, before it takes effect, and we will update the date at the top.

18. How to Contact Us

Privacy questions, requests, or complaints:

Metanlytics LLC, doing business as Bolt Hiring
info@bolthiring.com

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