Visibility & Identity Controls

Wigiwork provides anonymous profiles by default. Candidates control which elements of their professional information are visible.

Wigiwork-controlled direct identity and contact fields, including name, contact details and real photo, are designed to remain hidden unless disclosure is authorized through Profile Access, another approved sharing control or applicable law. Full Access normally reveals employer names in work-experience entries; names the candidate has specifically chosen to keep hidden remain hidden. Limited Access follows its authorized scope. Other visible professional information may affect identifiability. Wigiwork does not guarantee that identification is impossible in every circumstance.

For logged-in, verified company, agency, recruiter, and other authorized hiring accounts before Profile Access, Wigiwork provides three candidate visibility modes: Fully Anonymous, Semi-Anonymous, and Open Profile. These modes do not change the Public profile, which logged-out visitors and logged-in candidates viewing another candidate receive in Public view.

A candidate's salary or rate expectation is displayed in Fully Anonymous, Semi-Anonymous, and Open Profile modes. Display and advertising of a salary or rate expectation are subject to Wigiwork's minimum advertising thresholds and pricing-market rules, described in Candidate Rights & Identity Controls. It is a candidate-set preference signal and does not create a binding offer or compensation commitment by Wigiwork or an employer.

After onboarding, Wigiwork assigns the candidate an anonymous username that may be used to locate or reference the profile within Wigiwork. Candidates may change it through their dashboard, subject to availability and identity-protection rules. A username you change yourself may become available to others after a holding period. A username replaced by Identity Reset is permanently retired.

Every candidate must provide a work location representing where they ordinarily perform work. It may be a general area rather than an exact address. Work location is displayed in Fully Anonymous, Semi-Anonymous, and Open Profile modes and may be used in Discovery and matching.

The engagement type of each work-experience entry (Company or Freelance) is derived from the entry type you select and is displayed in all visibility modes.

Fully Anonymous

Fully Anonymous displays core professional information without displaying the candidate's direct identity.

Information displayed may include:

• username
• work location
• availability status
• profile title
• Wigi Highlights
• work format
• salary or rate expectation
• work-experience titles
• engagement type, shown as Company or Freelance
• approximate work-experience duration bands (exact entered duration is not displayed)
• years of experience
• skills
• languages
• activity status
• Verified Tick (if completed)

The candidate's name, real photo, contact details, and the underlying content of the Professional Summary (the candidate-written summary field), work-experience descriptions, achievements, projects, portfolio links, references, certifications, education, documents, and photos are not displayed in this mode. Restricted sections may still appear in locked form as described below.

Security clearance information is hidden in public and anonymous-facing views. In Open Profile, you may choose to show only that you hold a security clearance. Clearance details remain hidden until the applicable Profile Access is granted.

Work-experience titles remain visible in anonymous-facing views. Do not use titles that identify or strongly suggest a specific employer, client, project, team, or unique role.

Semi-Anonymous

Semi-Anonymous displays the same core professional information as Fully Anonymous and also displays work-experience descriptions.

The candidate's name, real photo, contact details, and the underlying content of the Professional Summary, achievements, projects, portfolio links, references, certifications, education, documents, and photos remain hidden. Restricted sections may still appear in locked form as described below.

Open Profile

Open Profile makes the candidate's enabled profile sections viewable to logged-in, verified company, agency, recruiter, and other authorized hiring accounts without requiring Profile Access merely to view those sections.

It displays the same core professional information and allows the candidate to choose whether to display additional sections, including:

• work-experience descriptions
• work-experience employer names
• achievements
• projects
• portfolio links
• certifications
• education
• an indication that you hold a security clearance

The candidate's name, real photo, contact details, and the underlying content of the Professional Summary, references, documents, and photos remain hidden unless they are shared through an applicable Wigiwork-controlled Profile Access or sharing workflow.

Locked Sections in Anonymous-Facing Views

Restricted profile content is viewable only through candidate-authorized Profile Access, where supported and to the extent authorized.

Wigi Highlights are AI-generated professional narratives displayed in Fully Anonymous, Semi-Anonymous and Open Profile views. They are designed to summarize professional information without intentionally displaying Wigiwork-controlled direct identity information.

A Wigi Highlight is generated from your complete professional profile. It may present professional substance — such as skills, technologies, responsibilities, industries, project types, career progression, and quantified achievements — even where the related profile sections are not separately displayed under your selected visibility mode.

In every visibility mode, and even where a viewer separately receives more information through your visibility mode or authorized Profile Access, the Wigi Highlight remains anonymous-facing and is 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.

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

For correction rights and how to report inaccurate or identifying content, see Candidate Rights & Identity Controls.

Profile Strength may be displayed as a star rating on candidate profiles and candidate cards and may support profile presentation or ordering.

It reflects profile completeness and the usefulness and consistency of profile information. It is not an assessment of employability or professional ability and does not guarantee visibility, employer interest, or hiring outcomes.

For complete limitations and review rights, see Candidate Rights & Identity Controls.

Candidates must not include identity-revealing information in fields that may be visible under Fully Anonymous or Semi-Anonymous profile settings, including usernames, work-experience titles, external links, or other anonymous-facing profile information.

Wigiwork may restrict, hide, remove, refuse, or require changes to information that appears to reveal identity, conflict with anonymity controls, create impersonation risk, or materially increase re-identification risk.

Candidates may change their visibility mode. A more restrictive mode limits future disclosure but does not reverse earlier disclosure or remove information already viewed or retained outside Wigiwork. Previous viewers may still recognize or identify the candidate.

Identity Reset is a separate control and does not guarantee that previous disclosures or information held outside Wigiwork can no longer identify the candidate.

A less restrictive mode permits additional profile information to be displayed to authorized logged-in hiring accounts before Profile Access. Public and external viewers continue to receive the protected Public profile.

Candidates are represented by a WigiPic™, Wigiwork's anonymous visual avatar system, which may be selected from an archive or generated from an optional uploaded photo. WigiPics are stylized, symbolic illustrations — not likeness tools — and are not intended to reflect, represent, or be used to infer appearance, gender, ethnicity, age, or other personal traits.

Employers and recruiters must not use WigiPics to infer identity, appearance, gender, ethnicity, age, disability, attractiveness, religion, protected traits, or suitability for a role. Wigiwork is not responsible for any inference, interpretation, or misuse of avatar representations by users.

Full details on WigiPic generation, photo handling, ownership, external use, deletion, and enforcement are set out in the WigiPic™ Terms & Use.

"Profile Access" means a Wigiwork-approved method through which a candidate permits additional profile information to be viewed.

3.1 Profile Access Methods

Profile Access may occur through:

• an employer-initiated Access Request approved by the candidate;
• Automatic Access enabled by the candidate;
• a candidate-initiated Share Profile action within Wigiwork, including through the Job Board;
• a job invitation accepted by the candidate;
• sharing authorized through an outreach invitation;
• an External Private Share Link created by the candidate; or
• another candidate-authorized method expressly described in the applicable policy.

Private Listing rules for Share Profile and job-specific outreach sharing are in Section 7.

When Automatic Access is enabled, a company's Access Request is approved automatically without a separate candidate decision. The selected access duration and normal request and pricing rules apply.

3.2 Access Request Decisions

Candidates have 5 days to approve or decline an Access Request. If the candidate does not respond, the request is automatically declined and permanently closed. The original request cannot later be approved.

After an automatic decline caused by no response, the employer may submit a new Access Request.

Manually and automatically declined requests are deleted after 45 days, subject to limited lawful retention. Declining a job-related request or invitation, including job-specific outreach, prevents further requests or invitations for that same job. Declining a Connect request without a job prevents another such request while the declined record exists, up to 45 days or until you delete it. Other contact remains subject to Company Data & Employer Rules, candidate blocking and outreach opt-outs.

3.3 Access Levels and Visible Information

For employer-account access, the candidate may:

• approve Full Access or Limited Access for Access Requests;
• select an access duration of 4, 8 or 12 weeks for Access Requests, or 4 or 8 weeks for in-platform profile sharing;
• select which profile sections are visible.

For an External Private Share Link, the candidate may:

• select an access duration of 4, 8, or 12 weeks; and
• choose which available optional sections to include.

Each link always shows the candidate-provided name and standard professional profile sections. It does not show the Wigiwork username or activity status and reflects current included profile information while active.

Every in-platform Profile Access includes at least one verified candidate contact email, which cannot be removed without replacement by another verified email. Additional contact methods, including the pre-filled verified mobile number, are optional. On an External Private Share Link, contact information is shown only if the candidate enables it.

Only selected optional profile information is displayed. Unselected information remains hidden.

3.3A In-Platform Job Invitations

A company with active Profile Access may invite you to a job without charge. Accepting creates a separate, job-scoped Profile Access authorization for that company—or for an agency and named client—using the access duration selected in your Profile Access settings at the time of acceptance: 4, 8, or 12 weeks.

Each accepted invitation has its own start date and expiry. Access periods do not combine or add together. Within the same scope, Profile Access continues until the latest active authorization expires or you revoke access. Declined or unanswered invitations create no authorization, and different scopes are never combined.

If a company without active Profile Access includes a job in an Access Request, approving it follows the normal Access Request rules and duration. It does not create a separate job-scoped authorization.

3.3B Outreach Invitations

A candidate accepting an outreach invitation authorizes sharing with the inviting company or hiring client, subject to the invitation conditions and supported Private Listing rules in Section 7. A company's Connect action instead starts an Access Request; disclosure remains subject to candidate approval, applicable Automatic Access settings or another candidate-authorized sharing arrangement. Invitation acceptance does not authorize unrelated marketing.

New members' profiles are shared only after onboarding is complete and the invitation conditions are met. Existing members with completed profiles authorize immediate sharing by accepting a valid invitation. No further approval is required for the authorized share.

Invitations without a linked job remain valid for seven days and require no further role-suitability check. Job-specific invitations remain valid until the job closes; initial sharing requires the completed profile to meet the role requirements. Later profile updates follow the applicable matching and sharing rules.

Acceptance or onboarding completion after expiry does not authorize a new share through that invitation. Previously shared profiles remain subject to their applicable access conditions.

Outreach-authorized sharing uses the applicable access level and sharing duration selected in the candidate's settings. A first share uses Full Access. Where the company already has active Profile Access within the same scope, a new share is processed without charge and creates a separate authorization with its own access period at the existing access level. Sharing does not automatically upgrade Limited Access.

Where unlocking is required, the company has 14 days from sharing to unlock the profile. The authorized access period starts when the company first views the profile through that authorization. Applicable pricing, duration, expiry and revocation rules continue to apply.

3.4 Skill Confirmations and References

Skill Confirmations and References are not displayed through ordinary visibility modes, anonymous-facing profiles, or Public Discoverability. They appear on an External Private Share Link only where the candidate expressly includes them; reviewer and reference-provider direct contact details, such as email addresses and phone numbers, are never displayed through such links.

Permitted Skill Confirmation information may be displayed to registered Wigiwork companies with authorized in-platform Profile Access and, where the candidate includes it, through an External Private Share Link without direct contact details, subject to the candidate's show or hide control. A reference relates to the relevant Work Experience entry and is viewable through authorized in-platform Profile Access or, where the candidate includes it, through an External Private Share Link without direct contact details, subject to the candidate's hide control.

Complete feature rules are stated in Candidate Rights & Identity Controls.

3.5 Automatic Access Extension

Automatic Access Extension may extend eligible authorizations while enabled. Candidates may disable it at any time.

The total duration of each authorization, including its original period and extensions, cannot exceed 12 weeks. An authorization originally granted for 12 weeks cannot be extended. An extension does not create a new authorization or broaden the permitted recipient, purpose, information or access level.

3.6 External Private Share Links ("Shared Profile" Links)

Anyone who obtains an External Private Share Link may be able to view the information selected for that link.

Candidates are responsible for:

• choosing who receives the link;
• selecting an appropriate duration and the optional sections included; and
• managing, revoking, or deleting the link.

3.7 Recipient Obligations

Employers and recipients of External Private Share Links must:

• respect the access level authorized by the candidate;
• view and use only the information made visible;
• use the information only for the authorized purpose;
• respect the applicable access duration; and
• comply with Wigiwork's confidentiality, expiry, revocation, deletion, data-use, and identity-protection rules.
• treat contact details as candidate-provided and not assume that they remain current, reachable, or monitored;

3.8 Expiry and Revocation

When Profile Access expires, is revoked, or is no longer needed for the authorized purpose, the recipient must:

• stop using the information;
• stop further contact based on that access where required; and
• delete manually stored information unless retention is strictly required by applicable law.

Any information retained because of a legal requirement must:

• remain confidential;
• be stored securely; and
• be used only for the required legal or compliance purpose.

Wigiwork retains limited access-history information for 12 months after access ends. Wigiwork does not retain an old copy or snapshot of the candidate's profile solely for this history. Further details are provided in Data Retention & Storage.

3.9 Misuse and Outside-Platform Processing

Unauthorized retention, reuse, forwarding, redistribution, or use beyond the authorized purpose violates Wigiwork's confidentiality and NDA-Safe™ rules and may result in restriction, suspension, termination, or legal action.

Employers or recipients who retain or misuse candidate information outside Wigiwork are responsible for that processing and may act as independent controllers under applicable data-protection laws, without limiting Wigiwork's own obligations under applicable law.

Wigiwork automatically includes all companies correctly identified in a candidate's Work Experience in employer-conflict protection, subject to the available candidate controls. Wigiwork may also restrict profile visibility where:

• Conflicts with past or present employers may exist
• Recruiter-client relationships indicate a risk to candidate anonymity
• Safety, compliance, or privacy concerns are identified

Employers may not override these protections. Wigiwork retains discretion, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, over how and when such protections are applied.

These protections are designed to reduce unintended identity exposure and conflicts but do not guarantee that identification is impossible in every circumstance.

Candidates may control additional privacy preferences within their account.

Candidates may disable the default employer-conflict protection. Disabling it may allow the relevant company or users connected to it to discover or view the profile, subject to other applicable controls.

Candidates may restrict visibility to specific companies or individuals. When a restriction is applied, Wigiwork will prevent those parties from discovering or viewing the candidate's profile through Wigiwork-controlled workflows under normal platform operation, subject to system limitations, processing delays, prior lawful disclosures, caching, and applicable law.

These controls depend on the information provided and available to Wigiwork. Wigiwork does not guarantee that every related, renamed, shared, or incorrectly identified company, individual, domain, or location will be detected or restricted.

Company protections depend on accurate company identification. Incorrect or incomplete company names or domains may prevent the relevant company from being identified and restricted.

These controls apply across search, discovery, preview displays, outreach presentation, and employer tools.

Hiding or blocking a company ends its existing Profile Access, closes its pending requests and withdraws your active applications to that company.

Blocking does not automatically revoke or delete an existing External Private Share Link. To end access through that link, the candidate must separately revoke or delete it.

Public Discoverability controls whether your protected Public profile appears in logged-out Wigiwork Discovery and public search, is available through supported external discovery channels, and may be presented to companies through Wigiwork outreach.

Public Discoverability is enabled by default and may be disabled after onboarding.

When enabled, your protected Public profile may be indexed or surfaced through search engines, AI-powered search, and other supported external discovery services. Wigiwork may also present that profile to companies with relevant job opportunities. Only the protected Public profile is used for public and external presentation; your selected Fully Anonymous, Semi-Anonymous, or Open Profile mode does not change it.

The Public profile may include the candidate's username, work location, availability status, profile title, Wigi Highlights, work format, salary or rate expectation, work-experience titles, engagement type (Company or Freelance), approximate duration bands, years of experience, skills, languages, activity status. It does not display the candidate's name, real photo, contact details, or the underlying content of the Professional Summary, work-experience descriptions, achievements, projects, portfolio links, references, certifications, education, documents, photos, or security clearance. Restricted profile content is viewable only through candidate-authorized Profile Access, where supported and to the extent authorized.

Candidates may turn off Public Discoverability at any time through Visibility → Discoverability or object to the processing by contacting privacy@wigiwork.com.

Turning it off excludes the profile from logged-out Wigiwork Discovery, public search, supported external indexing and discovery, and future Wigiwork outreach. It does not change the selected company visibility mode, disable ordinary visibility to authorized logged-in hiring accounts, place the profile Offline, or delete the account.

Turning it off does not withdraw outreach already sent or revoke existing Profile Access or External Private Share Links. Those permissions remain subject to their separate controls.

Changes may take a reasonable time to apply. Previously indexed or cached information may remain temporarily with search engines, AI services, or other third parties, and Wigiwork cannot control their removal timelines. Appearance in any particular public, internal, search-engine, or AI-powered result is not guaranteed.

For information about ranking and display limitations, see the AI & Automated Decision Notice. For information about the processing of publicly discoverable profile information, see the Data Protection Notice.

Employer accounts may include authorized users with role-based permissions. Only authorized users acting within their assigned permissions may use employer-account features or view candidate information made available through Profile Access.

If you approve Profile Access for a direct employer, access is limited to that employer organization and its authorized users for the approved hiring purpose.

If a recruiter or agency submits an Access Request for a client, the hiring client must be identified to you. If you approve the request, access is limited to the approved recruiter or agency, the named client shown in the request, and the authorized role or hiring purpose.

If you choose Share Profile or authorize job-specific outreach sharing for a supported Private Listing, the hiring company or client may remain hidden until the employer successfully unlocks the shared profile, provided that company or client has already been identified to Wigiwork and connected to the listing. Where a recruiter or agency is involved, that recruiter or agency remains identified to you. When the shared profile is successfully unlocked, the hiring company or client must be identified to you, and access remains limited to that company or client and the relevant role or hiring purpose.

Access does not extend to other clients, companies, roles, affiliates, or recipients without separate candidate authorization.

Account ownership, role management, recruiter-client authority, confidentiality, and approved-client responsibilities are described in Employer Accounts, Company Data & Employer Rules, and NDA & Confidentiality.

Identity Reset creates a new anonymous identity while keeping your professional profile information and Profile Strength unchanged. Your Verified Tick status is also retained.

It replaces your anonymous username, WigiPic or avatar, and anonymous profile ID. Your previous Wigi Highlight is cleared and regenerated from your retained profile information.

Visibility history, employer access history and related links are cleared from normal user-facing workflows, and your existing conversations end for you. Companies may retain earlier conversations under your previous anonymous identity without a link to your new identity. Your previous username is permanently retired.

Any pending or active Profile Access and any External Private Share Links associated with the previous identity are revoked.

Identity Reset is permanent. Limited internal records may remain where reasonably necessary for security, fraud prevention, audit, legal obligations, dispute resolution, compliance, or enforcement of Identity Reset restrictions.

Identity Reset must not be used to reapply to the same role, evade employer decisions or platform restrictions, or manipulate visibility, ranking, Discovery, or shortlisting. It does not guarantee that recognition or re-identification is impossible.

For the complete rules, see Candidate Rights & Identity Controls.

Users may not:

• Attempt to bypass candidate privacy controls
• Improperly request access on behalf of unauthorized companies
• Misuse recruiter accounts to view hidden or restricted profiles
• Attempt to circumvent access expiration or identity reset protections
• Use or share an External Private Share Link beyond the included information, purpose, or duration selected by the candidate
• Forward, publish, redistribute, or reuse restricted profile information obtained through an External Private Share Link without authorization
• Use AI tools, external search, OSINT, scraping, browser extensions, enrichment tools, or third-party databases to infer, identify, deanonymize, or contact candidates outside approved Wigiwork workflows

Wigi Highlights, Wigi AI, and other automated outputs may be incomplete, inaccurate, outdated, misleading, or may unintentionally combine professional information in a way that affects identifiability. Unless expressly marked as verified by Wigiwork, AI-generated outputs are not verified factual statements about identity, employer, affiliation, qualifications, availability, hiring status, compensation, or suitability.

Any misuse of visibility or access mechanisms is a material breach of these Terms and may result in suspension, termination, or legal action.