WhetIQ privacy policy
Version 5, last updated 10 November 2026
WhetIQ lets you keep a record of your career in your own words, and share it at an address of your own. This policy says what we keep, why, for how long, who else handles it, and how to have it changed or removed.
Who we are. WhetIQ is run by Ethan Teel, in the United States. Write to ethan.teel@whetiq.com about anything here.
What we keep, and why
Your profile. What you write in WhetIQ: your experiences, your work, your stories, your pursuits, transitions and time away, and the ways to reach you you choose to add. We keep it to show it to you, and to show the parts you make visible to the people you share it with. Parts you keep to yourself are never sent to anyone else’s browser.
The file you start from. If you start by dropping a file on WhetIQ, we read it on our servers to make the first draft of your profile, and keep nothing of it there; until you have an account, the file stays only in your own browser. When you create your account, it is kept with your profile, encrypted with your key, so you can open it again and see where each line went; it is removed with your account. Contact details in it are not kept in your browser before you have an account.
Before you have an account. Your draft is kept only in your own browser, until you create an account or clear it. Nothing of it reaches us before you ask.
Your account. When you sign in with Google, Google tells us your name, your email address and an identifier for your Google account. We keep these to sign you in and to write to you about your account. We do not receive your Google password.
Signing in. A cookie in your browser keeps you signed in for up to 30 days. We keep a record of each sign-in (when it started and ended, the kind of device, the country, and a shortened network address that cannot identify a household) to keep accounts safe.
People reading a profile. When someone reads a profile we count the visit without identifying the visitor: which parts were read and for how long, how they arrived (the site they came from, not the page), and the kind of device. We do not keep a visitor’s IP address. Where the law asks us to ask first (the EU, the UK and Switzerland), we ask before remembering a browser between visits; elsewhere we remember it unless the visitor turns that off in “Your choices”. Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track are honored everywhere as a “no”.
Links made for one application. A person can make a link to their profile for one application, such as whetiq.com/their-name/k3v9, and send it to whoever they choose. When that link is opened we count the days it was opened, which parts were read and for about how long, which stories were opened, and whether a way to reach them (email, phone, a site) was pressed. The person who made the link sees the days and the reading, and nothing else. We do not show them, and do not work out, who the reader is, where they are, the time of day, or what device they used, and we never look up a company from a network address. Our own records keep the time of each visit for 25 months, to make the counts; it is never shown to the person who made the link.
If someone sent you such a link. The page tells you, each time, that it was made for you and what its maker will see. A link like this is often sent to one person or one team, so its maker may be able to guess who read it, even though we never say. You can turn counting off in “Your choices” on that page. In the EU, the UK and Switzerland, and for any browser that sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, a visit through such a link is not counted at all, and the page says so.
What came of an application. A person can mark what came of a link (heard back, interview, offer, closed), and every mark is kept with its day. When a link closed, they can say why (internal hire, role filled, not a fit, no reason given) and whether they were told or are guessing. They can also choose up to three roles they want noticed. Only they record it and only they see it. The reason is their word, never a judgment WhetIQ makes about an employer.
How you use WhetIQ. We record what happens to a profile (an item added or removed, a field changed, never what you wrote in it) to keep WhetIQ working and to improve it. These records do not contain your writing.
Feedback you send us, and which page it was sent from.
Emails we send. We send two emails when you create an account: a welcome to you, and a note to us that an account was made. We keep a record of each email sent (to whom, which kind, and whether it arrived). We send nothing else without asking you first. Notices about your links start off; each has its own switch in Settings, and they are sent at most once a day.
What we do not do
We do not sell your information or share it for advertising. We do not use third-party analytics or advertising trackers. We do not use your profile to train artificial intelligence, and WhetIQ does not use artificial intelligence to write or change your profile.
How it is protected
What you keep private is encrypted with a key that belongs to you alone, which is itself locked by a key that never sits in our database. When your account is removed, your key is destroyed, and everything encrypted with it becomes unreadable everywhere at once, including in backups.
Who else handles it
Only to run WhetIQ, under agreements that bind them to our instructions:
- Vercel (hosting, United States)
- Neon (the database, United States)
- Google (sign-in)
- Resend (sending account email)
How long we keep it
| What | How long |
|---|---|
| Your profile and its history, and the file you started from | While you have an account; removed 30 days after you close it |
| Sign-in records | 30 days after the sign-in ends |
| Visit counts | 25 months, then only totals that point to no one |
| Links you make, what you mark came of them and why, and the roles you want noticed | While you have an account; removed with it |
| Records of changes for security | 2 years |
| Emails sent | 2 years |
| Feedback | 3 years, or until your account is removed |
| What you agreed to (these terms, this policy) | While you have an account, and 3 years after, as proof |
| Privacy requests | 3 years after they are completed |
Your choices and rights
- See and correct your profile at any time, in WhetIQ.
- Make it private, so it shows nothing to anyone, from your account menu.
- Hide any part of it, with its eye.
- Close your account in Settings. Your profile comes down that day; you have 30 days to change your mind; then everything is removed.
- A copy of your information, or anything else this policy covers: write to ethan.teel@whetiq.com. We answer within one month.
- Visitors can change what is remembered or counted in “Your choices”, in the help menu of any profile.
Depending on where you live you may have further rights, including to complain to your data protection authority.
Children. WhetIQ is for people 16 and over.
Changes. If we change this policy we will say so here, with a new version and date, and ask you to agree again where the change matters.
Version 4 adds links made for one application: what is counted when one is opened, what its maker sees, what the reader is told, and where such a visit is not counted at all. Version 3 changed words only.