Your data, plainly explained.
What we collect
Account details: name, email, password (stored only as a cryptographic hash), your current country and, if you choose, your home place.
Things you add: candidate profile, homecoming plan, job applications, posts, questions, answers, saved searches, reports.
Automatic: basic technical logs needed to run and secure the service. We do not run third-party advertising trackers.
What we use it for
To run IkkoPind: matching you with jobs, showing your plan, publishing community content you submit (after review), notifying you about applications and moderation decisions, and sending the weekly digest if you have it switched on.
We do not sell your personal information.
Who can see what
Private by default: your candidate profile is visible only to you unless you set it to employers you have applied to. Your homecoming plan, saved jobs and saved searches are always private.
Public when you publish: posts, questions and answers appear with your display name after moderation.
Employers see the applications you send them (your name and cover note).
What we never ask for
Do not upload passport numbers, visa documents, bank details or other identity papers to your profile or posts. Moderators remove them. IkkoPind never asks for payment from job seekers.
Storage, retention and your rights
Your data is stored on our production server and encrypted in transit. We keep it while your account is active.
You can delete your candidate profile, or your entire account, yourself at any time from your account page. Deletion removes your personal data immediately; published community posts remain attributed to “Deleted member” unless you ask a moderator to remove them. Backup copies of the database made before a deletion are kept for up to eight weeks, then they are deleted as well. For access or correction requests, email privacy@ikkopind.com. We respond within 30 days. Depending on where you live (e.g. Australia, Canada, UK, EU), you may have additional statutory rights, which we honour.
Cookies
One essential cookie keeps you signed in. If you choose a language, a second cookie remembers that choice on this device; it holds the language and nothing else. No advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.
Counting visits
We count how many times each kind of page is opened each day, and which website a visit arrived from. That is a number against a page, such as “this guide was opened 40 times on Tuesday”. It is not a record about you.
No cookie is used for it, and nothing that could identify you is stored: not your account, not your IP address, not your device. We keep the name of the referring website and not the page you were on. Rishta, your account pages and sign-in are never counted at all. If we note that a search found nothing, we keep the words and the day, and not who searched.
If your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, your visits are not counted. No other company receives any of this.
Contact
Privacy questions: privacy@ikkopind.com. If you believe we have not handled your data properly, you may also contact the privacy regulator in your country (e.g. the OAIC in Australia, the ICO in the UK).