Wigiwork Legal

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Welcome to the Wigiwork Legal & Trust Center — the central hub for all policies, notices, and agreements governing how Wigiwork's global tech talent network operates across the USA, UK, Ukraine, and wider Europe. Our platform is built on a privacy-first, anonymous-by-design architecture, and our legal framework reflects that commitment.

Every document listed here is intended to be clear, fair, and designed to be enforceable, and designed to align with major privacy and safety frameworks, including the GDPR, UK GDPR, and CCPA/CPRA.

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WigiPic™ Terms & Use

WigiPic™ Terms & Use

Governs the optional photo-to-avatar feature. Covers one-time photo processing, avatar generation, consent requirements, prohibitions on using WigiPics for identity inference or impersonation, and confirmation that no facial recognition or biometric data is created or retained.

Terms and Agreements

Terms of Service

The primary agreement governing your use of Wigiwork. Covers:

  • accounts, eligibility, and verification
  • user responsibilities
  • anonymity rules
  • identity controls
  • confidentiality obligations
  • automated systems & recommendations
  • salary integrity
  • employer obligations
  • safety, fraud prevention, and data use
  • liability, disputes, termination

Includes Sections:

Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)

Defines acceptable and prohibited behavior — including bans on scraping, unauthorized automation, spam, harassment, deanonymization attempts, and security violations.

Privacy & Data

1. Privacy Policy

Details what data we collect, how we use it, how it's protected, and your rights under global privacy laws.

2. Your Privacy Rights

Explains data subject rights such as access, correction, deletion, objection, and portability (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and others).

3. Cookie Policy

Explains our use of cookies and similar technologies — including regional controls for the EU, UK, and US privacy states.

4. Data Protection Notice

Describes our data handling principles, legal bases, encryption, storage regions, retention periods, and how we secure and process data.

5. Anonymous Profile Protections

Explains how anonymous-facing profiles, Wigi Highlights, WigiPics, Discovery Search, and visibility levels work. Describes identity-protection measures, residual re-identification risk, user responsibilities, and limits of anonymity and AI-generated summaries.

5. AI & Automated Decision Notice

Explains how Wigiwork uses AI (Wigi IQ Labs™ & Wigi AI Assistant), what decisions remain human-only, how automated shortlisting works, and your rights around automated processing. Clarifies that direct identity fields are not used for ranking, matching, or recommendations, and that Wigiwork does not make final hiring decisions.

6. Imprint / Impressum

Company identity, legal form, registered address, and EU representative, as required for EU-reachable commercial sites.

Confidentiality & Brand

1. NDA & Confidentiality Notice

Defines how candidate and employer information is treated as confidential within Wigiwork. Includes NDA-Safe™ rules, identity protections, Wigi-DNA™ forensic safeguards, and misuse consequences.

2. Trademarks & Brand Use Notice

Covers proper use of Wigiwork's brand assets — including Wigi™, Wigiwork™, WigiPic™, Wigi-DNA™, Wigi IQ Labs™, Wigi Ghost Mascot™, and WigiPic Avatar Style™. Explains editorial usage, asset licensing, and restrictions against derivative works.

3. Candidate Rights & Identity Controls

Explains anonymity features, visibility modes (Anonymous, Semi-Anonymous, Visible), blocking, Hide Rules, identity revocation, 'Taking a Break,' going Offline, and candidate control over employer access.

Employer Policies

1. Employer Accounts

Explains verification, account ownership, authorized recruiters, team permissions, and employer responsibility for controlling internal access.

2. Job Posting Rules

Defines required standards for truthful, accurate job postings. Covers salary transparency, legal compliance, no fake jobs, role clarity, no bait-and-switch, and non-discrimination requirements.

3. Billing, Credits & Refunds Policy

Explains credit purchasing, use, expiration, refund eligibility, handling platform errors, shortlisting limits, and employer-side billing workflows.

4. Payment Terms & Invoicing Policy

Covers invoice terms (Net 0 / Net 7 / Net 14 / Net 30), accepted payment methods, multi-currency support, global billing, overdue accounts, chargebacks, and suspension for non-payment.

5. Employer Conduct & Messaging Rules

Sets expectations for employer behavior — including professionalism, honesty, anonymity respect, no coercion, no discriminatory messaging, no identity fishing, and strict salary-integrity & offer-conduct obligations. Defines abuse of enterprise plans, message restrictions, identity access rules, and enforcement actions.

ATS & Integrations

ATS & Integration Notice

Explains how Wigiwork connects to Applicant Tracking Systems, what data flows to external systems (privacy-protected Wigi Highlight summaries), how Access Requests work, and obligations employers must follow to protect candidate anonymity. Clarifies that Discovery Search remains inside Wigiwork and candidate identity data is not sent to external ATS integrations unless access has been approved and the transfer is permitted by the applicable access and integration settings.

Security & Disclosure

Security & Disclosure

Outlines Wigiwork's security measures — encrypted data architecture, platform hardening, continuous monitoring, fraud prevention, and abuse detection. Provides instructions for reporting vulnerabilities, safe-harbor protections for researchers, and incident-handling commitments.

Contact

For questions, requests, or concerns:

Wigiwork Inc. PBC
2261 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94114-1612, USA, Attn: Legal

EU Representative — GDPR Article 27
Prighter EU Rep GmbH, Schellinggasse 3/10, 1010 Vienna, Austria. To exercise your rights or contact our representative, please see our Data Protection Notice and quote reference ID-17672043211.

EU AI Act Authorized Representative
Where required under the EU AI Act, Wigiwork will designate or maintain an authorized representative in accordance with applicable EU AI Act requirements.

Our Commitment

Wigiwork exists to protect people, enable fair and ethical hiring, and let professionals explore opportunities safely and anonymously.

This Legal Center reflects that commitment — giving you transparency, trust, and clarity in how we operate, how we protect your identity, and how we safeguard your rights.