- We collect what we need to run your AI team, keep a record of your work and handle job applications.
- We don't sell your data.
- Your portfolio is private until you share its link.
- When you apply for a job, you choose to share your profile with that company.
Who we are
Blacksmith Experience is run by AIONIQ Technologies, which decides how your personal data is used and is responsible for it as the data controller.
What we collect
Account details (name and email) and how you sign in, your GitHub connection and the repositories you link, the work you do on the platform (tickets, pull requests, reviews, walkthroughs, meeting transcripts and messages with your AI team), files you upload, your levels and points, billing records from our payment providers, and basic usage data such as device and log information.
Voice calls with your AI team are turned into text as you talk. We keep the written transcript, not the audio.
Job applications and AI interviews
When you apply for a job, you choose to share with that company your name, the email, phone and links on your profile, your full Blacksmith Experience profile (levels, points, the work behind them and walkthrough transcripts), your answers to its questions, and your CV and note if you add them. We record the wording you agreed to, when, and the IP address you agreed from.
We read the text of your CV so our AI can ask you about your experience. Your email, phone number, address, date of birth, age, nationality and similar details are taken out before the AI sees it.
If a company's job uses our AI interviewer, the interview's transcript, a written report and ratings are shared with that company's hiring team. They are advice: the company's people decide what happens next, and you can ask to speak with a person instead.
You can delete what you shared from an application at any time. Otherwise it is deleted 180 days after the job closes, unless you ask the company to keep you on file. An anonymous record that you applied is kept.
How we use it
To run your team (planning, reviews, walkthroughs and meetings), to record observations and calculate levels and points, to run job applications and interviews, to bill you, to send you account and product email, to keep the service secure, and to improve the product. You choose which emails you get from the email preferences link in any email.
Who we share it with
The providers that run the service for us, listed below, and companies you apply to. We share your portfolio with others only when you send the link.
Some of these providers handle data outside Nigeria and the European Economic Area. Where they do, we rely on their data protection terms, including standard contractual clauses where they apply.
Organisations and your data
If a school or staffing firm enrols you, it can see your activity, levels and points on its cohort or trial. A company you apply to sees what you chose to share with it, as above.
How long we keep it
For as long as your account is open. When you delete your account, you have 14 days to change your mind by signing in. After that your account, your private conversations, uploads, portfolio and connections are erased. What you did with other people, such as shared messages and invoices, stays without your name on it, and invoices are kept as long as the law requires. Code in your GitHub repository is yours and stays there.
Your rights
You can ask for a copy of your data, ask us to correct or delete it, or object to how we use it. Under the Nigeria Data Protection Act, the GDPR and similar laws you may have further rights, including complaining to a regulator such as the Nigeria Data Protection Commission.
Contact
Privacy questions: hello@blacksmithexp.dev.