Anonymous Profile Protections

Where a profile is displayed to public or logged-out viewers, or to logged-in candidates viewing another candidate, they receive the protected Public view. External Private Share Links follow separate sharing controls and display the candidate-provided name and information included for that link.

Public Discoverability is ON by default and can be changed after onboarding through Visibility → Discoverability. Turning it off excludes your profile from public Wigiwork search, supported external discovery and future Wigiwork outreach. It does not withdraw outreach already sent, change your company visibility mode or revoke existing Profile Access or private sharing links.

External indexing changes may take time, and previously indexed information may remain temporarily in third-party caches outside Wigiwork's control. For complete settings and controls, see Visibility & Identity Controls.

With Public Discoverability enabled, Wigiwork may match you with roles inside and outside Wigiwork and present your protected Public profile to relevant companies, subject to eligibility, availability, and privacy controls. Only protected Public profile information is shown in these outreach presentations.

Relevant Hide From and employer-conflict protections apply as described in Visibility & Identity Controls. Their accuracy depends on correct company names and domains.

Wigiwork offers Fully Anonymous, Semi-Anonymous, and Open Profile modes for logged-in, verified hiring accounts before Profile Access. Where a public or logged-out profile view is displayed, it uses the protected Public view. Exact field display, locked-section presentation, and Profile Access controls are described in Visibility & Identity Controls.

No visibility mode automatically displays your name, real photo, or Wigiwork-controlled contact details. Information you choose to display may still affect identifiability, especially when combined with information available outside Wigiwork.

What logged-in, authorized hiring accounts can see depends on your selected visibility mode and any Profile Access you grant.

Restricted profile content remains hidden until you grant the applicable Profile Access. Locked-section display is described in Visibility & Identity Controls.

Companies must use profile information in accordance with Confidentiality & Wigi-DNA™ and the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). WigiPics are governed by the WigiPic™ Terms & Use and are not protected by Wigi-DNA™.

Wigi Highlights are AI-generated professional narratives displayed in anonymous-facing profile views. They are generated from your complete professional profile and are designed to present the strongest accurate and credible reasons for a company to become interested in you.

Wigi Highlights may present professional substance — including skills, technologies, responsibilities, industries, project types, career progression, achievements, and quantified results — even where the related profile sections are not separately displayed under your selected visibility mode.

In every visibility mode, Wigi Highlights are designed not to include your name, contact details, real photo, personal URLs or handles, restricted employer, client, or organisation names, named individuals, or other restricted identifiers. Named professional technologies, tools, and platforms may remain because they are professional information rather than organisation identity.

Because Wigi Highlights are generated automatically, they may be incomplete, inaccurate, outdated, misleading, or may combine professional information in a way that affects identifiability.

Wigi Highlights do not guarantee that recognition, inference, or re-identification is impossible, especially where legitimate professional information is distinctive or can be combined with information outside Wigiwork.

Wigiwork may display Profile Strength as a star rating on candidate profiles.

Profile Strength reflects profile completeness and the usefulness and consistency of profile information. It does not measure professional ability, employability, salary value, identity or hiring suitability.

Profile Strength does not guarantee employer interest, shortlisting, access requests, interviews, offers, or hiring outcomes. Profile Strength does not display direct identity or contact fields. Candidates remain responsible for keeping their profile information accurate, current, and appropriate for the visibility mode they choose.

Profile completeness may be one of several neutral signals used to support profile presentation, ordering, or visibility within Wigiwork, including Discovery Search and shortlists.

Automated features, including Discovery Search, Wigi Highlights, Wigi AI, recommendations, and automated profile explanations, may be incomplete, inaccurate, outdated, misleading, or may misinterpret information.

Unless Wigiwork expressly marks information as verified, do not treat an automated output as a verified fact about a person, employer, role, qualification, availability, compensation, affiliation, hiring status, or suitability.

Review relevant information independently before relying on it to contact, shortlist, reject, hire, publish, or make another business or employment decision.

Identity-protection measures are designed to reduce exposure but do not guarantee that recognition or re-identification is impossible in every circumstance.

Wigiwork may block, hide, remove, refuse, or ask you to change usernames, work-experience titles, external links, or other visible profile information that appears to reveal who you are or conflicts with your anonymity settings. We do not guarantee that we will catch every identifying detail you enter.

Wigiwork applies technical and organizational measures designed to reduce the risk of your anonymous profile being matched to your real identity. This may include varying the details shown across visibility modes, removing direct identifiers such as your name, photo, and employer name where they are not permitted by your selected visibility mode, and limiting information that could be cross-referenced against public sources or other professional networks.

Errors or gaps can still occur, whether from limitations in Wigiwork's own systems or from information available outside the platform that Wigiwork cannot control.

Determined third parties may attempt to piece together identifying details by comparing your anonymous profile against other publicly available information, and Wigiwork cannot fully prevent this kind of cross-referencing.

Terms such as "anonymous," "anonymous by default," "privacy-first," and similar marketing language describe Wigiwork's design goals, default identity controls, and privacy-focused workflows.

They are not guarantees that recognition, inference, re-identification, misuse, or AI error is impossible.

Candidates are responsible for information they choose to make visible and must not include restricted identity-revealing information in anonymous-facing fields. Distinctive professional details and combinations of information may increase recognition or re-identification risk.

A WigiPic generated from a personal photo may carry greater recognition risk than an archive-selected avatar. Avatar use does not guarantee anonymity.

Employers, recruiters, agencies, and third parties are prohibited from attempting to identify, re-identify, deanonymize, reverse search, scrape, cross-reference, infer, or contact anonymous-facing candidates outside Wigiwork-approved Profile Access workflows.

Suspected deanonymization, unauthorized identification, scraping or misuse may be reported to privacy@wigiwork.com or through an available in-product reporting control.

Wigiwork will investigate reported incidents and may restrict, suspend, or terminate the responsible account in accordance with the Safety, Security & Fraud policy and Acceptable Use Policy (AUP).

By using anonymous-facing profile features, you understand that Wigiwork applies technical and organizational measures designed to reduce identity exposure, but no anonymization, de-identification, AI filtering, access-control, search, or security method can guarantee that identification, inference, re-identification, misuse, or AI error is impossible in every circumstance. This acknowledgment is subject to, and does not expand, the liability limitations set out in the Disclaimers & Liability section.