Legitimate Interest Assessment Summary

This page provides a public summary of our Legitimate Interests Assessment (LIA) for processing candidate professional data under Article 6(1)(f) of the UK GDPR and EU GDPR. A full internal assessment is maintained by Artashes Stepanyan Individual Entrepreneur (trading as Hyranse).

Related documents: Privacy Policy · Transparency Notice · Candidate Privacy Center

1. Purpose of processing

Hyranse operates a professional recruitment platform used by employers and recruiters with active accounts to identify qualified candidates for genuine job opportunities. Processing candidate professional data is necessary to provide search, ranking, and discovery features.

2. Data processed

We process low-risk, business-related professional data only:

• Name, job title, employer, education, skills, and experience;
• Publicly disclosed contact details and professional availability signals;
• No sensitive categories of data are intentionally collected.

3. Necessity

To provide accurate and relevant search results, we must index and organise professional information from public sources. Without this processing, the core recruitment search functionality cannot operate. We limit processing to what is necessary for recruitment discovery and apply access controls so data is available only to authenticated customers under contract.

4. Balancing test — why legitimate interest is appropriate

We weighed our interests and those of our customers against the rights of data subjects:

• Professional context — data relates to publicly visible professional profiles, not private life;
• Expected use — individuals who publish professional information online may reasonably expect recruitment-related discovery;
• Limited access — profiles are not publicly searchable; access is restricted to authenticated paying B2B customers under contract;
• Purpose limitation — data is used only for recruitment, not unrelated advertising or sale;
• Controls — candidates can opt out, request deletion, or object at any time via our Candidate Privacy Center;
• Suppression — we maintain records to prevent re-appearance after valid deletion requests;
• Customer obligations — customers must have their own lawful basis for outreach and comply with data protection law.

5. Conclusion

On balance, we consider that processing publicly available professional data to operate a B2B recruitment search platform is necessary, proportionate, and does not override the fundamental rights and freedoms of data subjects, given the safeguards above.

We review this assessment periodically and when our processing activities change materially.

6. Your rights

You may object to this processing, request deletion, or exercise other rights described in our Transparency Notice. Contact support@hyranse.com or use the Candidate Privacy Center.

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