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Privacy policy

What we collect, why we collect it, who we share it with, and the choices you have. It covers the 52east website, the 52east hiring platform and the 52east meeting notetaker.

Last updated 22 October 2026

1. Who we are

52east ("52east", "we", "us") runs 52east.co and the 52east platform at interview.52east.co: an AI hiring platform for recruiting teams, with apply pages, sourcing, AI interviews, assessments, assignments and a meeting notetaker. Questions about this policy go to hello@52east.co.

2. Whose information this covers

Customers: recruiters, hiring managers and admins who use 52east for their organisation.
Candidates: people who apply to, are sourced for, or are interviewed for a role through 52east.
Meeting participants: people in a meeting that a customer records with the meeting notetaker.
Visitors to our website.

When we handle candidate or meeting-participant information, we do it on behalf of the customer organisation that uses 52east. That organisation decides why the information is collected. If you are a candidate, please contact the company you applied to first. We will help them answer your request.

3. What we collect

Account information

Your name, work email address, organisation and role, collected when you sign up or are invited.

Content customers add

Job listings, interview and assessment setups, pipeline stages, notes, comments and other content you create in 52east.

Candidate information

Résumés, application answers, assignment submissions, and AI interview recordings (audio, video and any shared screen) with their transcripts, scores and interview-integrity signals. For sourcing, a customer may also ask us to find professional profile information, such as name, job title, employer, work history, public profile links and work contact details, from public and commercial data sources.

Meeting notetaker

For meetings a customer chooses to record: the audio and video recording, a speaker-labelled transcript, and the minutes and next steps a customer asks us to write. If a calendar is connected, we also keep the calendar details described in section 5.

Usage and device information

Log data such as IP address, browser type, pages visited and times of access, which we use to run, secure and fix the service.

4. How we use information

To provide the service: run interviews, transcribe and score them, rank candidates against criteria the customer sets, record meetings and write their minutes.
To send emails and notifications the service or the customer asks us to send.
To keep the service secure, prevent abuse and fix problems.
To provide support when you contact us.
To meet legal obligations.

AI in 52east helps people review evidence. It does not make hiring decisions. Customers stay responsible for every hiring decision. We do not sell personal information, and we do not use it for advertising.

5. Google user data (Google Calendar)

The meeting notetaker can connect to a user's Google Calendar so they can choose meetings for a notetaker to join and record. This section explains exactly what 52east does with data it receives from Google.

What we access

Calendar events, read only (the calendar.events.readonly permission): for each event in the connected calendar we keep its title, start and end time, video meeting link (Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Webex), its recurring-series identifier and whether it was cancelled.
Your Google account email address (the userinfo.email permission), so you can see which calendar is connected.

52east cannot create, change or delete calendar events. We do not read your Gmail, contacts, Drive or any other Google data.

How we use it

To show your upcoming meetings in 52east, so you can switch recording on for a meeting or for a whole recurring series.
To send a notetaker only to meetings you switched on, and to move or cancel it when the meeting is rescheduled, loses its link or is deleted.
To label the recording with the meeting title.

Nothing is recorded by default. A meeting is recorded only after a user switches it on.

Who we share it with

Our meeting-recording infrastructure provider, which connects to Google Calendar on our behalf, stores the access tokens Google issues, keeps the event list in sync and runs the notetaker that joins the meeting.
Our cloud hosting provider, which stores the event details listed above in our database.
An AI model provider, which receives the meeting title together with the transcript, only when a user asks 52east to write the minutes and next steps.

We do not sell Google user data. We do not use it for advertising, to build user profiles for other purposes, or to decide creditworthiness or lending. We do not use it to develop, improve or train generalised AI or machine-learning models. People at 52east do not read it unless you ask us to (for example in a support request), it is needed for security or to investigate abuse, or the law requires it.

How long we keep it, and how to remove it

Calendar event details are kept while the calendar is connected.
Selecting Disconnect on the Meetings page removes the calendar from our recording provider, cancels every notetaker scheduled from it, and deletes its events from our database.
You can also remove 52east's access at any time from your Google account at myaccount.google.com/permissions.
Recordings, transcripts and minutes of meetings that were already recorded belong to the customer organisation and are kept until it deletes them, or as described in section 8.

52east's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

7. Recording and consent

The notetaker joins a meeting as a visible participant, under the name shown in the meeting. Customers are responsible for telling participants that a meeting is recorded and for getting any consent the law requires. The same applies to candidates in AI interviews, who are told before an interview starts that it is recorded.

8. How long we keep information

We keep customer content and candidate information for as long as the customer's account is active, or until the customer deletes it. When an account closes, we delete or anonymise its data within a reasonable period, unless we must keep some of it to meet legal obligations, resolve disputes or enforce our agreements.

9. Security

Data is encrypted in transit. Access to production systems is limited to people who need it to run the service. Recordings are served through short-lived signed links. No system is perfectly secure. If we learn of a breach that affects your information, we will tell you and the affected customer as the law requires.

10. Where information is processed

52east and its service providers may process information in countries other than the one you live in. When we transfer information across borders, we use safeguards that the applicable law requires.

11. Your choices and rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, export or restrict the use of your personal information, or to object to how it is used. To use these rights, email hello@52east.co. If your information is in a customer's workspace, we will pass your request to that customer and help them answer it. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

12. Children

52east is a tool for businesses and is not meant for children under 16. We do not knowingly collect their information.

13. Changes to this policy

When we change this policy, we update the date at the top. If a change is significant, we tell customers by email or in the product before it takes effect.

14. Contact

Email hello@52east.co with any question about privacy or this policy. Our terms of use explain the rules for using 52east.