1. Scope and controller

RealDev LLC ("RealDev," "we," "us") operates realdev.dev and is responsible for the personal information described in this Privacy Policy.

Privacy and rights requests may be sent to michael@realdev.dev.

2. Information we collect

Account and profile data: email, username, name, password hash or OAuth identifiers, profile fields, social links, location, availability, employment and education history, optional GPA, marketplace pitch, and communications with RealDev.

Practice and AI data: workspaces, challenge submissions and submitted code, test and execution results, challenge history, AI requests and outputs, token/cost metadata, scripts, follow-up messages, and recruiter-facing ratings derived from successful submissions.

Talent Marketplace data: your affirmative consent and revocation history, visibility state, résumé PDF and filename, candidate rating statistics, recruiter profile views, company nudges, and recruiter access evidence.

Recruiter and organization data: recruiter identity, verified-email state, organization application and membership, access entitlement, billing state, and immutable Recruiter Data Use Agreement acceptance evidence.

Technical and security data: IP address, known-login IP history, browser/device and request metadata, session and security events, rate-limit and abuse signals, cookies, and product analytics events.

Billing data: Stripe processes payment method and billing details. RealDev receives identifiers, subscription state, price, transaction, and revenue information rather than full card numbers.

3. How we use information

We use information to authenticate users, secure sessions, operate isolated code execution, save workspaces, evaluate challenges, provide submissions and history, deliver requested AI features, send service communications, process personal Pro and recruiter-organization billing, prevent abuse, and improve the Service.

For candidates who affirmatively join the Talent Marketplace, we let approved and verified recruiter organizations discover them, provide the disclosed profile and résumé information, calculate recruiter-facing AI ratings from submitted code, rank candidates, and support recruiting contact. Participation is optional.

Marketplace browse prioritizes résumé availability, followed by rating, meaningful profile completeness, and rating evidence volume. Pro candidates receive a highlighted star and Pro notation that visually promotes their profile to companies and recruiters. This visual treatment does not change marketplace ranking. Ratings and filtering support recruiter review but are not designed to be the sole basis for hiring or an adverse decision.

4. Recipients and paid marketplace access

Service providers may process data for RealDev, including hosting and storage providers, Stripe for billing, Resend for email, PostHog for configured analytics, OAuth providers for sign-in, and the AI provider configured by RealDev for a particular AI operation. AI providers may change; the applicable provider receives the submitted code and context needed for the request, not a recruiter-facing profile export.

Approved recruiter organizations pay or receive a comped entitlement for marketplace access. Every real recruiter must accept the current Recruiter Data Use Agreement before receiving a candidate row, detail, résumé, rating, submission metadata, or nudge data. Payment never authorizes use outside bona fide recruiting and employment purposes.

A visible candidate’s recruiter-facing fields are detailed in the Talent Marketplace Data Disclosure. Recruiters cannot currently access source code or live workspaces. The current marketplace consent covers a future feature exposing only immutable, sanitized source snapshots captured from a submitted challenge, never later workspace changes or excluded material.

RealDev does not disclose live workspaces, unsaved editor state, secrets, dependency directories, or excluded configuration to recruiters. We may also disclose information when required by law, to protect users or the Service, or in a corporate transaction subject to applicable safeguards.

RealDev does not operate an advertising data business. Depending on applicable law, recruiter-paid marketplace access may be treated as a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information; RealDev honors applicable opt-out rights.

5. Cookies and analytics

HTTP-only cookies support authentication and session rotation. Browser product analytics run only after analytics consent and can be disabled through the privacy control. RealDev also sends a limited set of server-side account, conversion, and revenue events to PostHog without browser cookies.

PostHog identifiers are queued for durable deletion when an account is deleted. Session recording is disabled. RealDev does not use advertising cookies or cross-site ad tracking.

6. Retention, withdrawal, and deletion

Leaving the Talent Marketplace is a withdrawal, not account deletion. It immediately prevents future recruiter access and newly initiated automatic marketplace grading while retaining your profile, résumé, ratings, interactions, and derived history privately for rejoining. RealDev cannot recall copies a recruiter downloaded before withdrawal.

Whole-account deletion scrubs account and marketplace PII, removes a matching mailing-list address, removes marketplace statistics, profile views, nudges, and marketplace-only automatic grades, revokes durable sessions, and durably queues deletion of the résumé, avatar, PostHog person/events, and personal Stripe subscription. Submission records, submitted code, appropriate review history, and minimum legal evidence remain attached to a de-identified account identifier under RealDev’s retain-and-de-identify corpus model; RealDev does not promise that every database record is erased.

Current operational cleanup removes known-login IP history after 90 days without a later sighting, candidate profile-view records after 365 days, and completed external-deletion task history after 90 days. Standard security events are generally cleaned after 90 days and elevated events after 365 days. These operational periods may change as systems and legal requirements evolve. RealDev retains consent, agreement, access, billing, legal-hold, backup, and terminal-failure evidence as needed for security, compliance, dispute resolution, and system integrity.

Résumé objects remain in private storage while referenced by an active account. Replacement or deletion immediately removes the active reference and durably queues object deletion. Cloud version history, delete markers, backups, and provider logs follow configured infrastructure and provider lifecycle controls and may persist until those controls expire.

7. Security

RealDev uses TLS, password hashing, HTTP-only session cookies, durable session revocation, role and verified-email checks, recruiter organization entitlement, versioned recruiter agreements, rate limits, audit events, private storage, and isolated code-execution controls.

Production recruiter résumé access is served only through an authenticated RealDev endpoint that rechecks recruiter/admin authorization, live entitlement, current agreement acceptance, current candidate visibility, and the current résumé reference. Responses are private and no-store. No security method eliminates all risk.

8. Rights and automated processing

Depending on your location, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to, or obtain a portable copy of personal information; withdraw consent; opt out of certain sale/sharing or targeted advertising; and appeal a denied request. Contact michael@realdev.dev with “Privacy Request” in the subject.

Candidates can leave the Talent Marketplace without deleting their account. Account deletion is available separately. Identity verification and legal exceptions may apply to a rights request.

AI-produced ratings and rating filters are used to assist recruiter discovery. Marketplace browse prioritizes résumé availability, followed by rating, meaningful profile completeness, and rating evidence volume. Pro candidates receive a highlighted star and Pro notation that visually promotes their profile to companies and recruiters. This visual treatment does not change marketplace ranking. RealDev requires recruiters not to use a rating as the sole basis for hiring or an adverse decision. Rights to information, human review, explanation, objection, or appeal vary by jurisdiction, and RealDev responds to applicable requests as required by law.

9. Children

The Service is not directed to children under 13, and RealDev does not knowingly collect personal information from a child under 13. Contact michael@realdev.dev if you believe a child supplied information.

10. Changes

Material changes will be presented with an effective date and appropriate notice. A changed marketplace consent or Recruiter Data Use Agreement version may require a new affirmative action before new access is granted.

11. Contact

RealDev LLC · michael@realdev.dev