Applicant Privacy Notice
Effective date: 26 October 2026.
This notice applies to information you provide through the FounderBrands Personal Brand Manager application at /apply-PBM and Outbound Specialist application at /apply-OBS. It supplements the FounderBrands Privacy Policy for other website and service uses.
Information we collect
We collect information you provide in an application, including your name, contact details, primary country and state of residence and work, location, LinkedIn profile, portfolio, education, complete career and job history, former-manager contact details, permission choices, your own assessment responses, signature and consent. Historical salary and bonus questions are shown, required, optional, or not requested according to the form's configured location rules. When a historical compensation question is optional, declining it does not affect consideration of your application. When history is not requested for a selected location, those fields are hidden and prior editable values are removed from the new submission. Salary expectations for the role are a separate optional question. Please do not provide Social Security numbers, dates of birth, age, photographs, marital status, citizenship, immigration status or similar information that is not requested.
If you explicitly choose to reuse a shared application profile, it may be available for another FounderBrands application on the same device. That choice is optional. We do not promise profile reuse across devices or browsers.
How we use applicant information
We use application information to review career history, evaluate applications, contact applicants, run a structured hiring process and make hiring decisions. We may create a deterministic career snapshot from application answers to organize information and prompt human review. It is not a rejection rule, and FounderBrands does not make automated employment decisions from this application.
During hiring, we may create internal applicant-tracking notes, interviewer evaluations, reference-check records and activity records. For finalists, we use former-manager information and the requested permission process to arrange reference calls. A current manager is not contacted unless the applicant gives the requested permission for that contact.
Before making any hiring decisions, we require candidates to arrange personal phone calls with former managers (that we choose) for reference checks.
Access, service providers and email
Authorized FounderBrands hiring reviewers can access application records, snapshots, hiring notes, evaluations, references and related activity as needed for the hiring process. We use Manus-provided hosting and database services for the application and applicant-tracking system. Operations and hiring correspondence may be sent through the existing Sender and SendGrid email services. Reviewers may receive hiring communications through their work email providers, including Google Workspace. These providers process information as needed to provide their services and may process it in countries other than the country where you live.
FounderBrands does not sell information collected through these applications or use application answers to serve advertising.
Retention, deletion and separate records
Application and applicant-tracking records remain in our database until we delete them, subject to hiring needs, legal obligations and legal claims. The existing ordinary application-record deletion process remains available. Where applicant-tracking records are connected by foreign keys, an implemented applicant-tracking deletion can also remove related notes, evaluations, references and activity records through foreign-key cascade.
Application emails, reviewer mailbox copies, provider logs and operational copies are separate from database records. Deleting a database record does not automatically delete every mailbox copy, delivery log or operational asset. We do not promise automated physical deletion or certified deletion from those separate systems.
We use access controls and secure connections appropriate to the application. No transmission or storage system can guarantee absolute security.
Your choices and requests
To request deletion of your applicant information, email collin@founderbrands.io. Please identify the email address used for your application. We may need to verify the request before acting on it, and may retain information where required by law or necessary to address a legal claim.