Last updated: 10 August 2026 · TalentAI Egypt · [email protected] · العربية
In short: we collect what we need to consider you for a job — your contact details, your CV and your interview answers — we show it to the employer you applied to and to other employers hiring on TalentAI so they can consider you too, we never sell it, and you can switch off that wider visibility, or download or delete everything, yourself from the status link in your application email.
TalentAI Egypt ("we") operates the recruitment platform at talentai-eg.com, which lets candidates in Egypt apply to jobs and complete an AI-assisted screening interview, and lets employers review those applications. We act as the data controller for candidate data collected through this platform. Contact: [email protected].
| Data | Why |
|---|---|
| Name, email address, phone number, years of experience | To identify your application and contact you about it. |
| Your CV file and the text extracted from it | To assess your fit for the role and let the employer review your background. |
| Your answers to screening questions, the AI interview, skills quizzes and practical tasks | To evaluate your application against the role's requirements. |
| During the AI interview: counts of blocked paste and copy attempts, how many times the interview page was hidden and roughly for how long, how many times it lost focus to another window, whether more than one screen was attached, and how quickly each typed answer arrived | Shown to the recruiter as integrity signals, so answers written in the moment can be told apart from answers brought in from elsewhere. These signals are reviewed by a person and are never used to close or reject an application automatically. You are told on the interview page that they are collected. |
| Optional video or voice answers, and their transcripts | Only if the role asks for them and you choose to record. Transcription is automated. |
| If you apply or interview on WhatsApp: your CV file, your answers, and any voice notes or videos you send — plus the transcript we make of them | The chat is a full application route, so we receive the same things there as through the website. See section 5. |
| Your WhatsApp conversation with us — the message text, the profile name WhatsApp gives us, and any file you send | So a recruiter can read the thread and reply. Unlike Facebook and Instagram messages, these are stored in our own database. See section 5. |
| If a recruiter interviews you live and records it: the automatic transcript of that interview | To write up the interview accurately. The audio itself is deleted the moment it is transcribed — we never keep a recording of you. See section 8. |
| Application status, timestamps, and messages you exchange with the recruiter | To run the hiring process and let you track it. |
Referral source (for example a ?ref link) and basic technical data such as IP address | To attribute where applications come from, and for security and rate limiting. |
| Website analytics via the Meta Pixel — pages you view on this site, and the fact that an application was submitted | To measure and target our recruitment advertising on Facebook and Instagram. It records the event and the job title, never your CV, your answers or your contact details. You can block it with any tracker-blocking browser or extension. |
| Your WhatsApp number and opt-in status, if you choose it | To send you updates about your own application on WhatsApp. See section 5. |
| If you message or comment on our Facebook Page or Instagram account: the text you sent and the platform-scoped account id Meta gives us | To answer your question about our jobs and how to apply. We do not receive your name, profile or contact details, and we do not store the message in our own database. See section 6. |
We do not ask for, and you should never send us, national ID numbers, bank details or passwords during an application. New hires may later be asked to upload employment documents (such as ID or certificates) through their own status page as part of onboarding, if they are hired.
We have to be exact about this, because a previous version of this page was not. Some roles carry must-have screening criteria set by the employer — a minimum number of years, a specific certificate, a location. If your answers do not meet them, your application is closed automatically the moment you submit it, before any person has looked at it, and you are told that you did not meet the role's must-have criteria. This happens whether you apply on the website or through WhatsApp. No AI is involved in it: it is the employer's own rule, applied mechanically to your answers.
These rules can get it wrong. A rule that reads a typed answer can misread it — we have found and corrected real cases where a candidate who did meet a requirement was closed out by it. So this decision is never final:
Where your data physically sits. Our own servers are hosted in France, in the European Union — so your CV, your answers and your messages are stored outside Egypt, not only passed to providers abroad. Several of the providers above also process data in the European Union and the United States. Where that happens we rely on the provider's contractual data-protection terms. We are stating this plainly rather than as "may be transferred internationally", because it is not a possibility, it is where the data is.
WhatsApp updates are optional and off by default. If you tick the box when applying, we send one confirmation message asking you to reply YES; we only send further updates after that number confirms. Replying STOP at any time permanently ends WhatsApp messages to that number. Ticking the box on the form is a request — it does not by itself start messages, which is deliberate so a mistyped number is not messaged.
You can now complete an entire application in the chat, without a browser or an account: you send your CV as a file, answer the screening questions as ordinary replies, and then sit the same AI interview the website uses — answering by typing, by voice note, or by video, whichever you prefer. What that means for your data:
We store your WhatsApp messages to us — the text, the profile name WhatsApp supplies, and any file you send — in our own database, and our recruiters read and reply to them from an inbox inside the platform. This is different from Facebook and Instagram messages (section 6), which we do not store. We are telling you the difference plainly because the two channels look identical from your side but are not the same underneath. Deleting your application deletes these messages too (section 9), and replying STOP ends the channel.
If you send a direct message to our Facebook Page or our Instagram account, or comment on one of our posts, an automated assistant replies to you with information about our currently open roles and how to apply. It only ever replies to a conversation you started — we never message you first, we never send promotional or bulk messages, and every reply links only to talentai-eg.com.
Messaging us on Facebook or Instagram is separate from applying: it does not create an application, and it is not the WhatsApp channel in section 5.
Today, we do not delete applications automatically. The platform has a scheduled purge that can remove applications a set number of days after a decision was recorded on them, but it is currently switched off, which means we keep your application until you delete it or ask us to. We would rather tell you that than describe a retention period that is not actually running.
So: the reliable way to have your data removed is to delete it yourself — one click from the status link in your application email, and it happens immediately (see section 9). You can also email [email protected] and we will do it for you. Talent-pool records are likewise kept until you ask us to remove them. If we switch the automatic purge on, we will say so on this page and update the date at the top.
Honest limitation: the encryption key is stored on the same server that serves the site, so encryption protects against copied backups and disk-level access, not against someone who fully compromises the running server. Machine-generated transcripts of spoken answers and text extracted from CVs are stored in the application database, which is not file-encrypted. No independent penetration test has been performed on this platform yet.
Under Egypt's Personal Data Protection Law (Law 151/2020) you may access, correct, or delete your personal data, and object to how it is processed. Two ways to exercise this:
Deletion removes your data from our platform. An employer who already downloaded your CV holds their own copy under their own obligations; ask them directly, and tell us if you need help reaching them.
The platform is for people of legal working age in Egypt. We do not knowingly collect data from children.
If we change this policy we update the date at the top of this page. Material changes affecting how we use existing candidate data will be notified by email where we hold a valid address.
Questions, requests or complaints: [email protected]. You also have the right to complain to Egypt's data protection authority.