Privacy policy

Take Your Skills is an online service published by Fleck One (a French société par actions simplifiée with share capital of €1,000, RCS Paris 109 829 895, registered office at 173 rue de Courcelles, 75017 Paris), which is the controller of your personal data. The service lets you gather in one place and showcase the professional recommendations you receive from colleagues. See the legal notice for more details.

For any question about data protection, contact: contact@takeyourskills.com

• Account data: primary email address, first name, surname, town or city, job title and profile picture (optional).
• Additional email addresses: work or personal addresses added to make it easier to receive recommendations.
• Recommendations: the text of the recommendations received and given, their status (public or private) and metadata about how they were written.
• Workplace personality test (optional): if you take the test, we record your answer to each situation, the date, the version of the questionnaire and the result calculated from your answers. That result includes your archetype, its four-letter code followed by the letter A or T, and your position, as a percentage, on each dimension and each facet. We also record whether or not you chose to show that result on your profile. If you answer the question “Does this portrait sound like you?”, we record your answer and, if you write one, your comment.
• Analytics, through PostHog (hosted in the European Union, IP addresses not stored): pages visited and actions taken (such as writing a recommendation). The addresses of profile and Leaving Pack pages are masked before anything is sent. If you accept analytics in the cookie banner, a cookie lets us recognise your browser from one visit to the next. If you decline, or until you make a choice, your visit is only counted, with no analytics cookie (only a refusal is stored on your device): PostHog works out a temporary identifier from your IP address and browser, using a key that is replaced and destroyed every day, so it cannot recognise you from one day to the next.
• Technical data: session cookies (authentication) and anonymised error logs (Sentry), to keep the service running and secure.
• Reason for deleting your account (optional): if you give a reason when you delete your account, the free text you enter is kept to help us improve the service. This field is entirely optional.

• To provide the service: creating your profile, receiving and giving recommendations, identifying you.
• To contact you: sending transactional emails (login codes, notifications of recommendations you receive).
• To keep you informed of new features: sending emails about new features of the service, only if the “New features” setting in your notification preferences is switched on. Each of these emails contains an unsubscribe link.
• To improve the service: analytics, to understand which features are used. With a cookie, only with your consent; without a cookie, if you have declined or not yet chosen, on the basis of our legitimate interests in knowing how much the service is used. You can object to this count by turning on your browser’s “Do Not Track” or “Global Privacy Control” signal, in which case we measure nothing at all.
• To keep the service secure: detecting errors and preventing abuse.

We do not sell or rent out your data, we do not show any advertising, and we do not use your data to send you commercial offers from third parties. The only profiling we carry out is calculating the result of the workplace personality test, which you choose to take, as described in the next section.

What the test does. The test presents you with situations from working life. Your answers are processed automatically to calculate a result that describes work preferences. This calculation is profiling within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It does not lead to any decision about you on our part: we do not rank, filter or search for anyone on the basis of this result.

The result is for guidance only and is based solely on your answers. It is not a diagnosis, a medical or psychological assessment, or a measure of your skills or of your suitability for a job.

Why we process this data, and our lawful basis.

• To calculate, record and show you your result, and to let you retake the test: this processing is necessary to provide the service you have asked for. Lawful basis: performance of our contract with you.
• To show your result on your profile: when you finish the test, your result is shown on your profile, and once you have seen it, the results page immediately asks whether you want to keep it visible or make it private. You can change your mind at any time, in the same way as you choose to make a recommendation public. Lawful basis: performance of our contract with you, at your request.
• To add nuance to your professional portrait: if your result is shown on your profile, it is used to add nuance to the wording of the portrait generated by artificial intelligence. The portrait is still built solely from the public recommendations you have received. If you make your result private or delete it, your portrait is regenerated without it. Lawful basis: performance of our contract with you.
• To improve the questionnaire: we analyse test answers and feedback on the portrait statistically, to improve the situations presented and the accompanying text. Lawful basis: our legitimate interests in offering a good-quality test. You can object by writing to us.

Who can see your result. While it is shown, your result is visible to anyone who views your profile, including people without an account, and may be picked up by search engines. It also appears in the PDF version of your profile, in the activity feed of the people you are connected with on Take Your Skills and in those people’s “In your network” list. While it is private, only you can see it. Our team may access it for support purposes and to keep the service secure.

Making your result private, or deleting it. The “…” menu on your profile or your results page offers two options. “Make private” removes your result from your public profile, your PDF, the activity feed and your connections’ “In your network” list. Search engines may take some time to update their own pages. “Delete my result” erases your test sittings, your feedback on the portrait and the displayed result, but does not delete your account.

Your comment on the portrait. The comment field is optional and limited to 2,000 characters. Please do not include information about your health or other sensitive matters: we have no use for it.

• Supabase (hosted in the European Union): database and file storage.
• Vercel (United States; frontend, edge): application hosting.
• Brevo (European Union): sending transactional emails.
• PostHog (European Union): analytics, with a cookie only if you accept it, otherwise without one (see section 2).
• Sentry (Germany): technical error monitoring, with IP addresses anonymised and sensitive data filtered out.
• OpenAI (United States): assisted drafting of recommendations when you use the artificial intelligence writing feature, and generation of your professional portrait. When you use the writing feature, the text you enter passes through OpenAI’s servers. For the portrait, we send the text of the public recommendations you have received, together with the first names and surnames of their authors. If your personality test result is shown on your profile, we also send the code and name of your archetype and the labels of your most pronounced traits. We never send your email address, your test answers or your percentages.

Two of our providers are based in the United States: OpenAI and Vercel. Data transfers to these providers are covered by the safeguards provided for in the General Data Protection Regulation: either the European Commission’s adequacy decision for providers certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, or the standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission. You can obtain a copy of these safeguards by writing to us.

• Essential cookies (always on): authentication, security and display preference. No consent is required (exemption under article 82 of the French Data Protection Act).
• Analytics cookies (opt-in): PostHog, only if you have accepted them through the banner. If you decline, or until you choose, no analytics cookie is set: your visit is only counted, as described in section 2. You can change your choice at any time using the Cookie settings link in the footer.

• Active account: for as long as you use it.
• Deleted account: your personal data (email address, profile, settings) is erased immediately. Recommendations you have given remain visible on their recipients’ profiles, but are anonymised (the author is shown as “Deleted user”). If you gave an optional reason for deleting your account, it is kept for 24 months to help us improve the service.
• Workplace personality test: your result, your test sittings and your feedback on the portrait are kept for as long as your account exists, or until you delete your result. They are all deleted when you delete your account.
• Consent cookie: up to 13 months (as recommended by the CNIL).
• PostHog analytics: 25 months at most, the period the French data protection authority (CNIL) recommends for analytics.

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights over your personal data:

• Right of access: you can see all the data we hold about you, including your personality test answers and the results calculated from them.
• Right to rectification: you can update your profile on the Settings page. You can also retake the personality test at any time: your new result replaces the old one on your profile.
• Right to erasure: you can delete your personality test result from the “…” menu on your profile or your results page (“Delete my result”), or delete your account in your settings (the “Delete my account” button).
• Right to data portability: you can receive your data in a readable format on request.
• Right to object and to withdraw consent: you can make your personality test result private at any time; object, by writing to us, to your answers and feedback being used to improve the questionnaire; withdraw your consent to analytics at any time; and unsubscribe from emails about new features using the link in each of them or in your notification preferences.

To exercise these rights, email us at contact@takeyourskills.com. We will reply no later than one month after receiving your request, in accordance with article 12 of the GDPR. If there is a dispute, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the CNIL (the French data protection supervisory authority).

We will tell you by email about any substantial change to this policy, and we will ask you to renew your consent to non-essential cookies.

This policy was originally written in French. This English version is provided for convenience. If the two versions differ, the French version prevails. This does not affect any mandatory protections you have under the law of your country of residence.