Candidate bill of rights

The interviewer is an AI, not a person. We say so on our site, in the interview guide, and on the interview screen, where the interviewer is labeled "AI interviewer". Before a saved interview starts, we show you what will be collected and ask for your consent.

You see your results yourself. Your results page shows your scores, the quotes from your answers behind each score, a short summary, feedback on your answers, and your full transcript with each quote marked. Areas your answers did not cover say "not enough evidence" instead of showing a low score.

• You. You can read your full results: the whole transcript, your scores, and the quotes from your answers behind each score.
• A company, only through its link. When you take the interview through a company's interview link, that company sees your name, your email address, your transcript, and your results for that role. The link's page tells you this before you start. Other companies do not.
• People you send a share link to. From your results page you can make a link to one result. People with the link see your name, your field, that interview's transcript, and its scores with their quotes, but not your email address. A link works for up to 90 days, and you can turn it off at any time.
• People you give a verification code to. When you download a result as a PDF, you can add a verification code. Anyone with the code can check on Aethel that the result is real: they see your first name and last initial, the field, the interview date, the area scores, and whether the result changed. Not your transcript, the quotes, or your email address. A code works until that interview record is deleted (at most 24 months), and you can turn it off at any time.
• Find experts, only if you turn it on. Your profile is not listed unless you turn on "Show my profile on Find experts" on your profile page. Then anyone can see your name, field, specialty, and your scores for the areas where your answers gave enough evidence. Never your transcript, the quotes, your contact details, your rate, or the rest of your profile. You can turn it off at any time.
• Aethel staff, only when needed to run the service, answer a support or review request, or investigate abuse.

Your results page shows which companies have your results, and for which role. If you start the interview from our site instead of a company link, no company receives your transcript or the AI review of it.

Today there is no button to take back a company's access to a result you already shared through its link. Deleting your data (right 6) removes that access.

You can get a copy of the data we hold about you: one file with your profile, every interview and its full transcript, your results and feedback, your consent records, and who you shared results with.

You can fix your profile details yourself: your name, headline, field, specialty, location, links, phone number, skills, work history, education, and projects.

Changes to your profile do not change results a company already received.

You can delete your data at any time, for free. This deletes your sign-in account, your profile, your interview records (transcripts and results), your applications, and your notifications. Companies you interviewed with through a link lose access to those results.

We keep a short record that you asked for deletion, for up to 24 months, so we can show the request was handled. Where a service provider received your interview data, we ask them to delete it too. If a company already downloaded your results, or received them in its own systems, that copy is the company's, so ask the company to delete it too. See what gets deleted in our privacy policy.

If you think your result is wrong, we read your transcript and your scores and tell you what we found. A person at Aethel replies within 2 business days.

What a review can change today: we cannot edit a stored score by hand. If the review finds a problem, we tell you what we found. If the problem was on our side, we can give you a free retake that does not count toward your 3 retakes. You can also retake the interview yourself (right 9).

Some things are built in, for everyone:

• Type every answer instead of speaking. You never need a microphone.
• No camera needed. If you turn it on, it only shows you a preview of yourself.
• No timer on your answers. Take the time you need to think.
• If you speak, your words appear as text first, so you can check and fix them before you send.

Interviews run in English only today.

There is no separate appeal form. This is the path today, in order:

1. Ask for a human review (right 7). We read your transcript and scores. A person at Aethel replies within 2 business days.
2. Retake the interview. You can retake it up to 3 times from your results page. Your newest result replaces the one before it. If an interview was cut short by a technical problem, such as the video interviewer not connecting or the time running out, your results page offers a free retake that does not count toward that limit. If it does not, ask for a review and tell us what happened.
3. Talk to the company about its decision. Aethel does not make hiring decisions and does not reject anyone automatically. The company's team decides, so questions about a decision go to them.
4. Delete your results (right 6) if you no longer want them to exist.

AI scores help a company's team review an interview. They do not decide anything. Aethel never rejects or advances a candidate on its own, and does not message you about a company's decision. The company's team reads your answers and decides.

Depending on where you live, you may have more rights under local law. Tell us where you are when you write to us, and we will help. A person at Aethel replies within 2 business days.

You can also stop non-essential emails at any time. Write to us with "Unsubscribe" in the subject, as the email preferences page explains.