Privacy PolicyPrivacy Policy

LiNQable is a hiring platform operated by BLINQ SVC (“we”, “us”, “our”), a Nevada business that places hospitality, retail, and QSR workers at partner companies including airport concessions, restaurants, and retail venues. We act as a service provider to those partner companies (the actual employers).

By default, we don't participate in the I-9 process at all. The partner company that hires you handles Section 1 (your portion) directly with you and Section 2 inside their own payroll system or HR provider. LiNQable does not collect, store, or process any I-9 record under this default arrangement.

Some partner companies engage our optional Authorized Representative service. When they do — and only then — under USCIS Handbook M-274:

• —We meet you in person to inspect your identity and work-authorization documents (driver's license, passport, Social Security card, etc.).
• —We do not photograph, scan, copy, or otherwise store those documents. They stay in your hands.
• —Section 2 of the I-9 form is completed either by us inside the partner company's payroll system (ADP, Gusto, Paychex, Rippling, Workday, or QuickBooks Payroll), or handed back to the partner company's HR team to complete themselves.
• —The completed I-9 lives in the partner company's payroll system — not on our servers.

We do not collect your Social Security number, citizenship status, or I-9 document details through our platform. We may collect your date of birth separately after you accept an offer so our team can prepare the partner company's onboarding handoff. That separate collection is not an I-9 record and does not change where the I-9 is completed or stored.

We collect the following categories of information from candidates:

• —Contact information: name, email, phone number.
• —Application materials: resume (PDF), work history, references.
• —Pre-screen responses (availability, transportation, basic role-fit questions).
• —Post-offer onboarding information: date of birth and other information needed to prepare your hiring handoff.
• —Direct-deposit information, when the partner company enables that task: bank routing and account numbers, account type, and the name on the account. We collect this information for the partner company's payroll setup.
• —Operational credentials required for the role you're hired into: food handler card, alcohol service / TAM card (for bartenders and alcohol-serving roles), TSA SIDA badge photo (for airport hires). We store the credential number and expiration date permanently for renewal tracking; the image itself is auto-deleted after a 30-day transit window (longer for SIDA badge photos, kept until the badge is issued).
• —Verification attestation (only if your partner company engaged our optional AR service): the date, location, and authorized rep name for your in-person I-9 verification — not the underlying ID images. This is our compliance audit trail proving we did what we said we did.
• —Communications: every email between LiNQable and you.

• —To match you with open roles at our partner companies.
• —If your partner company engaged our optional Authorized Representative service: to coordinate the in-person I-9 verification step we perform on their behalf.
• —To forward your operational credentials (food handler / alcohol / badge cards) to the partner company's designated hiring manager.
• —To prepare post-offer onboarding and direct-deposit information for secure handoff to the partner company when those steps are enabled.
• —To coordinate airport processing (TSA SIDA badge issuance).
• —To send hiring updates via email.
• —To track credential expirations and alert you and the partner company when renewals are due.

• —The partner company hiring you (manager, owner, HR, badging contacts) — they receive your contact info, resume, pre-screen responses, and operational credential files via email.
• —The partner company's payroll system (ADP, Gusto, Paychex, Rippling, Workday, QuickBooks Payroll) — this is where your I-9 form lives. If your partner company engaged our optional AR service, we may sign Section 2 inside their system on their behalf; otherwise the partner company completes Section 2 themselves. Either way, the I-9 record itself is held by the partner company through their payroll vendor, not by us.
• —For airport hires: the airport authority that issues your SIDA badge (e.g., Avolta for LAS) — they require a badge photo as part of badge issuance.
• —Service providers we use to operate (Resend for email, Vercel for hosting, Neon for database, Anthropic for AI scoring of resumes, Vercel Blob for transit-window credential file storage).
• —Government agencies when required (TSA background screening for airport hires).

We do not sell your information. We do not use your information for advertising.

• —I-9 forms and government ID documents: we don't keep them at all. The I-9 is held by the partner company through their payroll system, per federal retention requirements (3 years after hire or 1 year after termination, whichever is later). Government IDs are never digitally captured by us in the first place.
• —Operational credential images (food handler / alcohol / badge cards): auto-deleted from our systems after a 30-day transit window. SIDA badge photos are an exception — kept until the badge is issued (typically 4-8 weeks), then deleted.
• —Operational credential metadata (credential number, expiration date, delivery audit log): retained for the life of your application record so we can alert on renewals and prove compliance.
• —Verification attestation records (date, location, AR who verified) — only created if your partner company engaged our optional AR service: retained for the life of your application record as audit evidence for our AR obligations.
• —Candidate, application, onboarding, and communication records: retained while needed for hiring, onboarding, operations, legal obligations, dispute resolution, or a future role, and removed when no longer needed or after an applicable deletion request. Some records may need to be retained longer where law or a partner company's record-keeping obligations require it.
• —Bulk-uploaded resumes (not moved into a pipeline): deleted automatically after 30 days. Resumes moved into a candidate pipeline follow the candidate-record retention approach above.
• —Direct-deposit information: retained with the onboarding record while needed for the payroll handoff, operations, legal obligations, or dispute resolution, unless an applicable deletion request allows earlier removal.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or export the information we hold about you. To exercise any of these rights, email privacy@linqable.io. We'll respond within 30 days.

Note that we hold relatively little personal data on you compared to a typical employer- side hiring platform — we're only the screening + hand-off coordination layer (plus, in some engagements, the AR verification layer). We are never the I-9 custodian. For requests about the I-9 itself, contact the partner company that hired you; they hold that record in their payroll system.

Operational credential files in their 30-day transit window are stored encrypted at rest in Vercel Blob. Database connections are TLS-only. Access to candidate data is limited to authorized LiNQable staff and the partner company employees who need it (manager, HR, badging contacts).

We minimize what we collect specifically to reduce the impact of any security incident: we don't store I-9 forms, government ID images, Social Security numbers, citizenship status, or I-9 document details. We restrict access to the post-offer information we do collect, including date of birth and, when enabled, direct-deposit information.

LiNQable does not use tracking cookies or third-party advertising trackers. We use Vercel Analytics, a privacy-focused service that aggregates anonymous traffic patterns (page views, response times) without setting cookies on your browser or collecting personal information about individual visitors.

When you sign in to the admin dashboard, we use a single first-party session cookie (NextAuth) to keep you logged in for the duration of your session. This cookie is not shared with anyone.

LiNQable is intended for job-seeking adults age 18+. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18.

We may update this policy as our practices evolve. Material changes will be posted here with a new “Last updated” date.

Questions, requests, or complaints: privacy@linqable.io

BLINQ SVC operates LiNQable. Please consult our Terms of Service for the legal framework around using our platform.