Privacy & Data Notice
Last updated: 15 November 2026
Who we are
Comquat Interview Prep builds a personalised interview preparation report from the job description and CV you give us. It's run by Comquat Ventures UK Ltd, a private limited company registered in England and Wales (company number 17581616). Comquat is the CV Rewrite and Interview Prep app from The Com'mon People. We are the "data controller" for the information described here.
Contact for any privacy question or request: neil.copping@thecommonpeople.co.uk.
Post: Comquat Ventures UK Ltd, 102 Stevenage Road, Hitchin, SG4 9DQ (our registered office).
What we collect
| Data | Why we collect it |
|---|---|
| Your name, email address, and the company and role you're applying for | To personalise your report and opening pitch, and to keep a record that you agreed to this notice before we generated anything |
| Your CV and the job description (uploaded file or pasted text) | To research the company, work out your skills match and gaps, and draft your pitch, STAR answers and questions |
| Spoken answers, if you choose to record them (audio, then turned into text) | To draft your answers in your own words. The audio goes to our transcription provider and isn't kept by us afterwards |
| Whether you've opted in to hearing from us | A separate, optional tick-box, kept apart from your agreement to this notice. You can withdraw it at any time |
| Your name, email and chosen time, if you book a coaching call | To arrange and confirm your session |
Our legal basis
- Building your report, and arranging a coaching call if you book one, is necessary to provide the service you asked for.
- Recording a voice answer, and hearing from us about future guides and tools, are based on your consent. Both are optional.
How long we keep it
- Uploaded CV and job description files are deleted from our server as soon as the text has been read out of them.
- Recorded audio is deleted as soon as it has been transcribed.
- Your report isn't stored after it's been sent to your browser, apart from what's needed to build your downloadable document in the same request.
- Your name, email, and the record that you agreed to this notice (plus whether you opted in to hearing from us) are kept as evidence of consent. You can ask us to delete them at any time.
- Coaching booking details are kept until the session has taken place, plus a short period afterwards for any follow-up.
Your Comquat account
A free Comquat account gives you one sign-in for CV Rewrite and Interview Prep. If you create one, we keep:
- Your name and email address, so you can sign in and we know what to call you.
- Your password, if you set one, stored only as a scrambled one-way code. We can't see it. You can sign in with an email link instead.
- Your email choices: which of our newsletters and updates you've ticked, plus a record of when you ticked or unticked each one.
- Your download confirmations: a record, with the date and time, each time you tick the box to say you've checked your CV or cover letter before downloading it.
- When you joined and when you last signed in.
As we add features, your account will also hold the CVs and interview prep reports you make, your master CV and an optional profile with a photo. We'll update this notice before each of those goes live.
Why, and our legal basis. We use your account details to provide the account you asked for (contract). We keep your download confirmations because we have a legitimate interest in being able to show you checked your documents yourself before using them. We only send you the newsletters and updates you've ticked (consent), and you can untick them at any time from your account page.
Where it's kept. Your account is stored with Supabase, in their London data centre. Only you can see your account. We only look at it to help when you ask us to, or to fix a problem.
AI and your details. Nothing in your account (your name, email, password or email choices) is sent to an AI service.
How long we keep it. Until you delete it. You can do that yourself from your account page at any time, and it removes everything straight away, including your place on our mailing list. If you don't sign in for three years, we'll email you a month before closing your account, and then delete it.
Who processes your data for us
We use a small number of trusted service providers. None of them may use your data for their own purposes.
| Provider | What they see |
|---|---|
| Anthropic (Claude) | Your job description and CV text, to research the company and draft your report |
| OpenAI | Your spoken answers (to turn them into text) and a short description of the role (to create your report's cover artwork) |
| Supabase | Your Comquat account, if you have one, stored in their London data centre |
| Resend | Your name and email, to send booking confirmations, sign-in emails and any newsletters you've ticked, and to let us know a report has been requested |
| Stripe | Payment for a coaching call, if you book one. We never see or store your card details |
| Render | Hosting-level access to run the app |
Some of these providers are based in the United States. Where your data is transferred outside the UK, it is protected by appropriate safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses. We don't sell your data, and we don't use it to train AI models.
The interview prep report itself is free. The only thing we charge for is the optional coaching call.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you have the right to access, correct or ask us to delete the personal data we hold about you, to object to or restrict certain processing, to data portability, and to withdraw consent at any time. If you have a Comquat account, you can download everything it holds, correct your name and delete the account yourself from your account page. For anything else, email us at the address above. If you're unhappy with how we've handled your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.
Security
Uploaded files are checked for size and type before they're accepted, and deleted as soon as they've been read. Access to hosting and provider accounts is limited to the people who need it to run the service.
Cookies
If you sign in to a Comquat account, we use essential sign-in cookies that keep you signed in across Interview Prep and CV Rewrite. This app doesn't use tracking or advertising cookies.
Changes to this notice
We may update this notice as the service develops. Any change will be shown here with a new "last updated" date.