Privacy Policy

Effective date: 1 October 2026

Happy Hustle respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use and share it, and the choices available to you when you use Happy Hustle.

Happy Hustle is currently offered as a beta product. Some features and data practices may change as the service develops. If we make material changes to this policy, we will update the effective date and provide notice where appropriate.

1. Who We Are

Happy Hustle is an AI-guided companion for your next career move. It helps users assess their experience, build a personalized plan, track progress, explore potential roles, and receive career guidance.

Happy Hustle is operated by Happy Hustle Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, referred to in this policy as "Happy Hustle," "we," "us," or "our."

Happy Hustle Limited is the data controller responsible for your personal information. For users in the UK, we process personal information in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

2. Information We Collect

Information you provide

We may collect information you provide when you create an account or use Happy Hustle, including:

• Your name and email address.
• Your résumé and employment history.
• Your skills, experience, education, and career interests.
• Your current role and the kinds of roles you are considering.
• Your preferences, goals, and timeline for your next move.
• Information you provide in conversations with Joy, our AI career guide.
• Your responses to assessments, tasks, plans, and other product prompts.
• Feedback or support requests you send to us.

Please do not provide confidential information belonging to an employer or another person.

Your résumé and conversations with Joy don't need to include sensitive information such as health conditions, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation. If you choose to share it, we will use it only to provide the service to you.

Information generated through your use of Happy Hustle

We may create or store information based on how you use the service, including:

• Career assessments and identified experience gaps.
• Personalized plans, tasks, and recommendations.
• Progress information.
• Suggested roles or opportunities.
• Records of your interactions with product features.

Technical and usage information

We and our service providers may automatically collect basic technical and usage information, such as:

• The pages and features you use.
• The date and time of your activity.
• Browser and device information.
• IP address and approximate location derived from it.
• Error, diagnostic, and security logs.
• Recordings of how you interact with our pages, such as clicks, scrolling, and navigation, to help us fix bugs and improve usability. We mask text you type and the content of your résumé and conversations with Joy in these recordings.

3. How We Use Information

We use information to:

• Create and manage your account.
• Assess your experience, goals, and career interests.
• Generate your personalized plan for your next move.
• Provide tasks, recommendations, and progress tracking.
• Suggest roles or opportunities that may be relevant to you.
• Power your conversations with Joy.
• Respond to questions, feedback, and support requests.
• Maintain the security and reliability of the service.
• Understand how people use Happy Hustle.
• Test and improve the product.

We do not guarantee that recommendations, assessments, job information, or AI-generated responses will be accurate, complete, or appropriate for every user.

4. Our Legal Bases for Using Your Information

If you are in the UK, we rely on the following legal bases:

Contract. To create your account, assess your experience, generate your plan, power your conversations with Joy, and provide the features you signed up for.

Legitimate interests. To keep the service secure, prevent fraud and abuse, understand how Happy Hustle is used, and improve the product. We only rely on this where our interests are not overridden by your rights.

Consent. To send you our newsletter and marketing emails, and to use analytics cookies and session recordings. You can withdraw consent at any time.

Legal obligation. Where we must keep or disclose information to comply with the law.

5. Artificial Intelligence

Some Happy Hustle features use artificial intelligence. Information you submit may be sent to an AI service provider so that Happy Hustle can generate assessments, plans, recommendations, and responses.

AI-generated information may be incomplete or incorrect. You should review it before relying on it for an application, career decision, or communication with another person.

We do not permit our AI service providers to use your personal information or content to train their general-purpose AI models.

Joy's assessments, job recommendations, and plans are suggestions to support your own decisions. We do not make decisions based solely on automated processing that have legal or similarly significant effects on you.

6. How We Share Information

We may share information with:

Service providers

We use trusted service providers to operate Happy Hustle. These may include providers that support:

• Account authentication.
• Database hosting and storage.
• Website hosting.
• Analytics and error monitoring.
• Artificial intelligence features.
• Customer support.
• Payment processing, if paid services are introduced.

These providers may process information only to perform services for us, subject to their contracts and applicable law.

Legal and safety reasons

We may disclose information if we reasonably believe it is necessary to:

• Comply with a law, regulation, legal process, or government request.
• Protect the rights, safety, or property of Happy Hustle, our users, or others.
• Detect or prevent fraud, abuse, security incidents, or illegal activity.
• Enforce our Terms of Service.

Business changes

If Happy Hustle is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, bankruptcy, or sale of assets, information may be transferred as part of that transaction.

With your direction or consent

We may share information when you ask us to or give us permission.

7. Cookies

We use essential cookies to keep you logged in and the service secure. With your consent, we also use analytics cookies and session recordings from PostHog to understand how people use Happy Hustle and to fix problems. We do not use advertising cookies. You can change your cookie choices at any time by contacting privacy@myhappyhustle.com.

8. Selling Personal Information

We do not sell your personal information. We do not use advertising cookies, and we do not share your personal information for targeted advertising.

9. Data Retention

We retain information for as long as needed to provide Happy Hustle, maintain your account, meet legal obligations, resolve disputes, and protect the service.

When you request deletion of your account, we will delete or de-identify eligible account information within 30 days. Some information may remain in encrypted backups for up to 14 days after deletion, or be retained where required by law.

We may retain aggregated or de-identified information that can no longer reasonably identify you.

10. Your Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

• Access a copy of your personal information.
• Correct inaccurate information.
• Ask us to delete your information.
• Restrict or object to certain uses, including uses based on legitimate interests.
• Receive your information in a portable format.
• Withdraw consent where we rely on it.
• Appeal a decision concerning a privacy request (certain US states).

To make a request, contact privacy@myhappyhustle.com. We may need to verify your identity before completing it. For UK users, we will respond within one month.

Deleting your information may prevent us from continuing to provide your plan, progress history, conversations, and other personalized features.

If you are in the UK and unhappy with how we handle your information, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk). We'd appreciate the chance to address your concerns first.

11. Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards intended to protect your information. No online service or storage system can guarantee complete security.

Because Happy Hustle is in beta, do not submit information you would not be comfortable storing in an early-stage test product.

12. Children's Privacy

Happy Hustle is not intended for anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children below that age.

If you believe a child has provided information to us, contact us at privacy@myhappyhustle.com.

13. International Transfers

Happy Hustle Limited is based in the UK. Some of our service providers, including Anthropic and PostHog, process information in the United States. Our database is hosted in the EU.

When we transfer personal information outside the UK, we use appropriate safeguards, such as the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework where the recipient is certified, or the UK International Data Transfer Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.

14. Third-Party Websites

Happy Hustle may link to job listings, company websites, or other third-party services. We do not control their privacy practices. Review their policies before providing them with information.

15. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as Happy Hustle develops. We will post the revised version and update its effective date. If a change materially affects how we use previously collected personal information, we will provide additional notice where required.

16. Contact Us

Happy Hustle Limited

Privacy requests: privacy@myhappyhustle.com

General questions: hello@myhappyhustle.com