Privacy Policy

Discreet Careers is a UK-based recruitment platform that connects candidates with employers across the adult industry. We are recruitment-only and do not host adult content.

For the personal data described in this Policy, Discreet Careers is the 'data controller' — meaning we decide how and why your data is processed.

Discreet Careers is operated by EE Entertainment Limited, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 14156026), registered office: 2a Hallcar Street, Sheffield, S4 7JY.

You can write to us at Discreet Careers, 28-46 Petre House, Petre Street, Sheffield, England, S4 8LJ.

We process personal data in line with the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. For any question about this Policy, your data, or to exercise your rights, email [email protected] — this is also our privacy contact.

Account & profile data: your name, email address, phone number, password (stored only in hashed form), location, work history, skills, languages, experience and anything you choose to add to your profile.

Application data: the details you submit when applying for a role, including any CV or documents you upload, your availability and the messages you exchange about an application.

Employer & verification data: for employer accounts, the business details and verification documents needed to confirm a legitimate business.

Technical & usage data: IP address, browser, device, and how you use the site, collected through cookies and similar technologies (see our Cookie Policy).

Communications: messages you send us, support tickets, and records of contact-form submissions.

Because of the nature of the adult industry, some information you choose to provide — such as role preferences — may reveal or imply information about your sex life or sexual orientation. Under Article 9 of the UK GDPR this is 'special category' data and receives extra protection.

We only process this data where you have given us your explicit consent by choosing to provide it for the purpose of using our recruitment services, or where another Article 9 condition applies (for example, establishing or defending legal claims, or reasons of substantial public interest such as safeguarding).

You are never required to share sensitive details, you decide what goes on your profile, and you can remove this information or withdraw your consent at any time from your account settings.

Contract: to create and operate your account and process job applications — the core service you ask us for.

Consent: for marketing emails, non-essential cookies, and the sensitive profile data described above. You can withdraw consent at any time.

Legitimate interests: to keep the platform secure, prevent fraud and abuse, run trust & safety and moderation, and improve our services — balanced against your rights.

Legal obligation: where we must retain or disclose data to comply with the law or a lawful request from an authority.

Candidate profiles are private. Employers cannot search or browse candidate profiles on Discreet Careers.

When you apply through Discreet Careers, we use your details to manage your application and share them with the employer you apply to — that employer only.

Some jobs are applied for on the employer's own website. For those, you apply directly on the employer's website, where your application is handled under their privacy policy. We record only that your account followed the link to that job, so that we can report click totals to the employer; we do not pass them your name or contact details.

Some company pages on Discreet Careers were created by us, not by the business, so that roles are advertised under the right employer's name rather than someone else's. These pages are marked “Unclaimed Profile”, and the business has not yet claimed its profile with us.

We no longer hold applications for these businesses. Their jobs are applied for on the employer's own website, where your application is handled under their privacy policy; where a job has no such link yet, you can register your interest instead of applying.

Applications made through Discreet Careers to an unclaimed employer before this change are still held by us. We are the data controller for them — EE Entertainment Limited, the company behind Discreet Careers. They are not made available to any employer, they are not passed to anyone else, and they are visible only to the Discreet Careers staff responsible for them; staff whose role is limited to contacting businesses cannot open your CV, photographs or contact details. We will not release or delete them until we have decided how they are handled, and we will tell you what happens to yours.

Our lawful basis for keeping a held application is our legitimate interests, and yours, in connecting you with the employer you chose to apply to (UK GDPR Article 6(1)(f)). Where your application includes special category data, we rely on your explicit consent, given when you submitted it (Article 9(2)(a)). You can withdraw your application at any time from My Applications, and a withdrawn application is never released to an employer.

We do not share applicants with other agencies, sister companies or any matching service on the basis of one application. Applying to one employer is permission to contact that employer, and nothing more.

Employer accounts include the information needed to verify the business and post jobs. Verification details are kept confidential and used only for moderation and trust & safety.

Public-facing fields (company name, location, job descriptions) are shown to candidates as published.

We use your information to operate the platform, process job applications, verify employers, provide support, send service notifications, run anti-fraud and safety checks, and improve our services.

Where we rely on consent (for example marketing emails), you can withdraw it at any time from your account settings without affecting the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal.

With employers: only when you apply for their role, and then only with the employer you apply to.

With service providers (processors): trusted suppliers who help us run the platform — for example cloud hosting and storage, email delivery, and infrastructure — who act only on our instructions under a contract.

For legal & safety reasons: where required by law, or to protect the rights, property or safety of our users, the public, or Discreet Careers.

We do not sell your personal data.

Some of our service providers may process data outside the UK. Where that happens, we make sure the transfer is protected by an appropriate safeguard recognised under UK data protection law — such as UK 'adequacy' regulations or the International Data Transfer Agreement (or the UK Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses).

You can ask us for more detail about the safeguards that apply to a particular transfer.

We use encryption in transit (HTTPS/TLS), secure hosting infrastructure, hashed passwords, regular security monitoring and access limited to staff on a need-to-know basis.

While no system is ever perfectly secure, we work continuously to protect your information and will notify you and the ICO of a personal data breach where the law requires it.

We keep personal data only for as long as we need it for the purposes in this Policy, then delete or anonymise it.

As a guide: account and profile data is kept while your account is active. When you request deletion, our team reviews the request and, once it is approved, you have a 30-day grace period to change your mind; after that your account is closed. Closing an account hides it and its content but does not erase everything straight away — "Account Deletion & Requests" below explains exactly what is kept, and how to ask for full erasure. Some records (for example those needed for legal, tax, fraud-prevention or safety reasons) may be kept for longer where the law requires.

Specific periods: an application held before we stopped holding applications for unclaimed employers is kept, unshared, until we have decided how those applications are handled (see “Unclaimed Employers and Earlier Held Applications”); identity documents sent to us when a business claims a page are deleted 90 days after the decision; other documents supporting a claim are kept for 12 months; the record that a claim was approved or refused is kept as an audit entry, without the documents.

Under UK data protection law you have the right to: be informed; access your data; have inaccurate data corrected; have your data erased; restrict processing; data portability; object to processing; and rights around automated decision-making. Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it at any time.

To exercise any of these rights, use your account settings or contact us. We will respond within one month (we may extend this by two further months for complex requests, and will tell you if so). Exercising your rights is free unless a request is manifestly unfounded or excessive.

We use limited automated processing to make the service useful — for example matching jobs to your preferences and sending job alerts you have opted into.

We do not make decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects about you based solely on automated processing, without human involvement.

We use strictly necessary cookies to run the site, and — only with your consent — optional cookies for analytics and marketing. You can accept or reject non-essential cookies from the cookie banner, and change your choice at any time. See our Cookie Policy for full details.

You can request account deletion from your settings. Your request is reviewed by our team. Once it is approved you are signed out and have a grace period (30 days) during which you can sign back in and cancel.

When the grace period ends your account is closed. You can no longer sign in, and the adverts you posted (employers) and the applications you made (candidates) are removed from view. Closing an account is not the same as erasing it. We keep the closed account in an inactive form that can be restored — for example if it was closed in error or without your authority — and the closure does not remove your saved jobs, job alerts, notifications and preferences, or any documents you uploaded. We also keep a log entry recording the closure, and records we are required to keep for legal, tax, fraud-prevention or safety reasons. The email address of a closed account cannot be used to register a new account.

If you want your data erased completely, contact us and we will erase it, apart from anything we are required or entitled to keep. Before you close your account you can delete documents you uploaded (such as a CV) yourself, at any time, from your dashboard. A company's public page is not taken down automatically when the login that manages it is closed — tell us if you want it removed.

You can also request a copy of your data or ask us to correct it by contacting us.

Discreet Careers is strictly for adults aged 18 or over. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 18. Any account found to belong to a minor is removed immediately. See our 18+ Policy for more.

We hope to resolve any concern if you contact us first. You also have the right to complain to the UK's data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

You can reach the ICO at ico.org.uk, by calling 0303 123 1113, or by writing to: Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated 'Last updated' date, and we will tell you about significant changes where appropriate.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, want to exercise your rights, or wish to make a complaint, email us at [email protected] or write to Discreet Careers, 28-46 Petre House, Petre Street, Sheffield, England, S4 8LJ.