Most AI products bolt on a privacy policy at the end. Piaar designed the matching engine around privacy in the first place. Here's what that means in practice.
The EU AI Act requires that high-impact AI systems are transparent about how they work. Piaar operates as a transparency-focused AI system, providing explainable matching logic and user-controlled discovery.
GDPR isn't a checkbox for us — it's home turf. The platform is built and hosted in Sweden, with EU region pinning for all user data and a strict consent-based processing model.
Privacy-by-architecture means privacy isn't enforced by policy alone. It's enforced by how the system is built — at the query layer, at the storage layer, at the deployment layer.
One place, and we'd rather name it than let you assume.
Content you publish publicly — events and articles — is checked before other people see it. Google Cloud Natural Language reads the text; Cloud Vision SafeSearch looks at the images. Both run in EU regions.
That is the only place machine learning touches anything you write. It never runs on your private messages, your profile, your skills, or your location. We don't use it to rank you, score you, or decide who you see — matching is a transparent skills comparison you can inspect yourself.
Automated checks are wrong sometimes. Nothing is permanently deleted on a machine's say-so alone: flagged content is held for human review, and you can challenge any decision by emailing privacy@piaartech.com. A person reads every appeal, and we aim to reply within five working days.
A short list because we want it to be checkable. If you ever find us violating one of these, write to us — we'll publish the fix or explain why we can't.
Request it through the in-app support flow, get a plain-language breakdown within 30 days, as required by the AI Act for affected users.
Usage analytics are off unless you switch them on, carry no account identifier, and are never used to rank, score, or profile you. Switching them off deletes the identifier and stops collection immediately.
Not to advertisers, not to recruiters, not to data brokers. Not as part of any acquisition without explicit user re-consent.
Your Piaar profile is what you put in Piaar. We don't import from LinkedIn, GitHub, or anywhere else without your direct action.
Significant changes to how matching works get a changelog entry. If a score on your profile would change materially, you'll know why.
Deleting your account in-app removes your profile from search and matches immediately, and downstream matches within 7 days. We retain only the minimum needed for legal compliance, and only as long as needed.
Data lives in EU-region Firebase. No transfers to jurisdictions without adequate protection. Schrems II compliance is the baseline, not the ceiling.
We ask for what a match needs — the skills you offer and seek, a rough location, and your consent. Nothing we can't justify, and nothing kept running in the background.
If we experience a data incident affecting users, you'll hear from us within 72 hours, and a public post-mortem follows once we understand the scope.
The features we said no to are as much a part of the product as the ones we said yes to.
"You've been on a 7-day streak" is a gambling mechanic with a friendlier name. We don't use them.
If we haven't heard from you in a week, we won't ping you with a manufactured reason. We trust you to come back when it's useful.
No infinite scroll, no engagement-optimized timeline. Matches are ranked by how well people's skills line up with what you're looking for, and that's it.
Location and Bluetooth are requested only in the moment a feature needs them — never kept running in the background to follow you around.
No pre-checked consent boxes, no "remind me later" buttons hidden in grey. Decline is as easy as accept.
No pixel on partner sites, no shared advertising ID, no cohort analysis sold to third parties.
If a match score looks wrong, a feature feels off-mission, or a privacy commitment looks like it's been broken — write to us. We answer everything.
Get in touch →The whole product is open about how it works. Try it for yourself.