Privacy Policy

Hiruu is operated by Christos Papoukas.

For processing activities where Hiruu determines the purposes and means of processing, the data controller is:

• Christos Papoukas
• Trading name: Hiruu
• Registered address: Adroutsou, 551 32 Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, Greece
• Email for privacy, legal and support requests: [email protected]

Employer customers may act as independent controllers for workforce information they enter into Hiruu. Where Hiruu processes that information solely on their instructions, the respective responsibilities will be governed by the customer agreement and Data Processing Agreement.

This Privacy Policy applies to the Hiruu mobile apps, website, business dashboard, support channels and the backend services that operate them. Hiruu is a workforce and hiring platform for adults and is not intended for anyone under 18.

At signup, one clear action may accept the Terms and acknowledge this Privacy Policy, with both documents linked. Hiruu records the Terms acceptance and Privacy acknowledgement as separate evidence, including each document version, locale and timestamp. This acknowledgement is not consent to optional marketing. Marketing remains optional, is managed separately after signup, and declining or withdrawing it does not block an account or feature. Device permissions are requested only when a feature needs them and can be changed in device settings.

Account, eligibility and security data includes name, email, password verifier or sign-in-provider identifier, language, account status, verification records, sessions and security events. Initial account registration does not collect a date of birth. Before normal account features become available, mandatory onboarding asks the user to submit a date of birth only to calculate whether the user is 18 or over. After that check, Hiruu retains the adult-eligibility confirmation, time and method, not the submitted date of birth.

Profile, work and business data includes profile photos, skills, work preferences, availability, employment and contract details, business profiles, team roles, job listings, applications, schedules, attendance, leave, overtime, shift reports, ratings, badges and rewards.

Communications and safety data includes chat messages, attachments, support conversations, call-session metadata, block relationships, reports about users or content, evidence submitted with a report, moderation decisions, notifications and appeals. Hiruu does not intentionally record call audio or video unless users receive clear notice first.

Files and generated content includes media you upload, documents, generated CV files and their temporary download or preview links. Generated CVs may include profile information that you chose for the CV.

Device, permission and diagnostic data includes app version, platform, build, IP address, security and server logs, crash or diagnostic information, push tokens and the minimum device identifiers needed for integrity checks and notifications. If you choose a relevant feature, the app may request camera, photo or file access, microphone, foreground location, notifications or Android alarm access.

Payment and subscription data includes plan and entitlement state, product identifiers, billing cycle, App Store or Google Play receipts or purchase tokens, and Stripe payment or subscription references for web billing. Hiruu does not store full payment-card numbers.

Accounting and employment records may include tax, payroll and bank fields, business legal details, accountant contact details, generated reports and records that a business must maintain for employment, tax or accounting duties.

Website usage data includes limited first-party hiring-page events such as page view, open-app, job click and store click, together with the business or listing context. Those events are sent without browser credentials and are not used for cross-site advertising. The public CV demo loads Cloudflare Turnstile only after the user asks to generate a demo CV.

• To create and secure accounts, verify eligibility and prevent fraud or abuse.
• To provide profiles, hiring, applications, workforce records, schedules, attendance, leave, chat, calls, support, files, CV generation, notifications, payments and subscriptions.
• To moderate reports, enforce the Terms and Community Standards, notify affected users and review appeals.
• To meet employment, tax, accounting, platform, safety and other legal obligations.
• To maintain, debug and improve service reliability using proportionate logs and aggregate or de-identified analysis.

Where EU law applies, the legal basis is performance of the contract, compliance with legal obligations, legitimate interests in security and reliable service, or consent where consent is legally required. Hiruu asks separately for optional marketing consent and optional device permissions.

Profile, listing, application, schedule, employment and chat information is shared only with the audience needed for the feature. Account owners control what they submit, subject to business and workplace record duties. Accounts that are deleted or pending deletion are excluded from profiles, search, business pages, job pages and other discovery or sharing endpoints.

Phone numbers, authentication secrets, security challenges, push tokens, exact dates of birth, private moderation evidence and internal security data are not public profile fields. Sensitive employment, tax and banking fields are limited to authorized workflows and must not appear in public or general search results.

Hiruu may disclose information when required by law, to protect users and the service, or as part of a corporate transaction subject to appropriate safeguards. Hiruu does not sell personal data or share it for cross-context behavioural advertising.

Hiruu uses providers only for features that are actually enabled. Depending on the selected feature and deployment, those providers are:

• Apple and Google for sign-in and native app-store purchases.
• Firebase for app security, push notifications and Apple sign-in on the web login.
• Google Identity Services for Google sign-in on the web login.
• Twilio or Prelude for delivery and verification of security codes, according to the configured verification route.
• Agora for live call sessions.
• Cloudinary and Cloudflare R2 for media or file storage, and Cloudflare Turnstile for abuse prevention on the public CV demo.
• Stripe for business web billing and subscription management.
• Contracted email delivery through the configured SMTP service for transactional messages and separately consented marketing.

Providers receive only the data needed for their task and act under their own legally required notices and Hiruu’s contractual safeguards. International transfers use an applicable transfer mechanism where required.

Ranking, reliability indicators, leaderboards, rewards and scheduling suggestions are support tools. They must not be used as the sole basis for dismissal, refusal of work, discipline, pay reduction or another significant adverse employment decision. Businesses remain responsible for lawful, explainable decisions and meaningful human review.

A user may ask for an explanation, correct inaccurate source data and contest a decision through support or the appeal path. Hiruu reviews employment-impacting automation for unjustified proxy use, disproportionate effects and data minimisation.

Hiruu keeps personal data only for the feature, security period or legal duty that requires it. Deletion jobs remove expired data and processor copies, while a narrow retention allowlist covers records Hiruu or a business must keep for tax, accounting, payments, employment, fraud, safety, disputes or legal claims.

Hiruu starts verified deletion immediately and keeps the account hidden. Closing a narrow future-shift record or completing a processor retry or manual reconciliation may delay confirmed completion, but never beyond 30 days. The Account Deletion page explains the deletion categories, retained-record allowlist, processor deletion and subscription steps.

• Ask for access to and a copy of your personal data through the privacy contact. Hiruu verifies the requester and responds through an appropriate secure channel.
• Where the right applies, ask for personal data you provided in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, or for transfer to another controller where technically feasible. This request uses the same verified privacy-contact process and does not require a self-service download endpoint.
• Correct inaccurate data and complete incomplete data.
• Request deletion, restriction or objection where the law provides that right.
• Withdraw optional marketing consent at any time without affecting earlier lawful processing.
• Manage app permissions and notification choices in Hiruu and device settings.
• Report users or content, block a user and appeal a moderation decision.
• Complain to the competent data-protection authority.

• Review privacy choices
• Request account deletion
• Read the appeal process
• Complain to the Hellenic Data Protection Authority
• Email [email protected]

Hiruu uses access controls, encrypted transport, secure session handling, least-privilege provider access and monitoring designed to protect personal data. No service can guarantee absolute security; report suspected unauthorized access promptly.

Hiruu is only for adults aged 18 or over. A newly registered account remains pending and cannot use normal Hiruu features until mandatory onboarding supplies a valid date of birth confirming adult eligibility. Invalid, future and under-18 dates do not activate the account, and the submitted date is not retained as account profile data after the decision. If an existing account is found to belong to a person under 18, Hiruu restricts the account, keeps only the minimum investigation record, verifies the situation and deletes or otherwise handles the account as legally required.

Material policy changes receive a new document ID and effective date. A user may be asked to acknowledge a new Privacy Policy separately from accepting new Terms. Earlier version-addressed documents remain available for acceptance records.

• Privacy and data requests: [email protected]
• General support: [email protected]