Candidate Consent Policy

This Candidate Consent Policy explains how professionals and candidates provide consent on Korum, a platform operated by Worldhire Global Ltd.

This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, Recruiter Terms, Recruiter Code of Conduct, Confidentiality & Consent Policy, Cookie Policy, and other applicable platform policies.

For the purpose of this policy, “Worldhire”, “we”, “us”, or “our” means Worldhire Global Ltd. “Korum” means the confidential career and hiring platform operated by Worldhire. “Professional”, “candidate”, “you”, or “your” means an individual who creates or uses a professional profile on Korum.

1. Purpose of This Policy

Korum is designed to give experienced professionals control over how they are discovered, viewed, contacted, and approached for career opportunities.

This policy explains:

• What you consent to when you create a Korum profile
• What happens in Discoverable Mode
• What happens in Confidential Mode
• What information may be visible to recruiters
• How recruiters connect with you
• How CV/resume and salary information may be used
• How consent-led access works
• How you can change, pause, withdraw, or manage consent
• What records Korum may retain for audit, security, compliance, and misuse prevention

2. Who Operates Korum

Korum is operated by:

• Worldhire Global Ltd
• Registered in England and Wales
• Company Number: 17306978
• Registered Office: 124 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, United Kingdom
• Email: privacy@worldhire.com

3. Consent Is Central to Korum

Korum is built around controlled visibility and consent-led hiring.

By using Korum, you may provide consent for:

• Creating a professional profile
• Making your profile visible in a selected mode
• Allowing verified or approved recruiters to view your profile
• Allowing recruiters to connect with you through Korum’s in-app connection workflow
• Sharing your CV/resume where uploaded or enabled
• Sharing salary or compensation ranges where provided
• Receiving relevant opportunity-related communications
• Participating in consent-led access workflows
• Receiving recruiter access requests
• Allowing Korum to log activity for audit, security, misuse prevention, and platform accountability
• Your consent may vary depending on the visibility mode you choose.

4. Korum Profile Modes

Korum supports two main professional visibility modes:

• Discoverable Mode
• Confidential Mode
• You are responsible for choosing the mode that matches your career situation, confidentiality needs, and willingness to be discovered.

5. Discoverable Mode Consent

Discoverable Mode is for professionals who want their profile to be discoverable by verified recruiters, employers, companies, and approved hiring partners on Korum.

By selecting Discoverable Mode, you consent to your professional profile being visible within Korum’s controlled hiring network.

This may include:

• Your name
• Professional summary
• Total years of experience
• Current role
• Previous roles
• Current employer
• Previous employers
• Industry
• Function
• Skills
• Specialisations
• Education
• Location
• Preferred location
• Work model preference
• Notice period
• Salary or compensation range where provided
• Expected compensation range where provided
• Career preferences
• Availability status
• CV/resume where uploaded or enabled
• Other professional profile details you provide
• Discoverable Mode does not mean your profile is publicly available on the open internet. It means your profile is visible within Korum to verified or approved recruiters, employers, companies, and hiring partners.

6. Contact Details in Discoverable Mode

In Discoverable Mode, your direct contact details are hidden by default.

Direct contact details may include:

• Phone number
• Personal email address
• Other direct contact information
• Verified or approved recruiters may message you through Korum’s in-app connection workflow at no credit cost (messaging does not by itself disclose your direct contact details).
• By selecting Discoverable Mode, you consent to this controlled reach-out / connection workflow, including the paid contact-reveal feature described below.

This means:

• Recruiters may view your professional profile inside Korum.
• A verified or approved recruiter may access your direct contact details (email address and phone number) only by using Korum’s paid contact-reveal feature, which involves a one-time credit charge; once used, that access remains available to that recruiter.
• Contact reveal is not available where you have enabled do-not-contact, and is never available for Confidential Mode profiles.
• reach-out / connection activity may be logged.
• Korum may use reach-out / connection logs for audit, misuse prevention, security, compliance, and dispute review.
• Discoverable Mode is therefore not the same as Confidential Mode. In Discoverable Mode, separate approval may not be required each time a verified or approved recruiter uses reach-out / connection, unless the platform specifically introduces such a control.

7. Confidential Mode Consent

Confidential Mode is for professionals who are not publicly applying, are selectively open to opportunities, or require stronger confidentiality before deeper disclosure.

By selecting Confidential Mode, you request a more confidential profile experience.

In this mode, your profile may be masked, limited, or partially visible.

The following information may remain hidden unless you approve access or complete a consent-led connection workflow:

• Full identity
• Direct contact details
• Current employer
• CV/resume
• Sensitive career details
• Salary or compensation details
• Other information treated as confidential by the platform
• Recruiters may need to request access before deeper information is shared.
• You may approve, reject, pause, or require consent-led access before deeper disclosure.

8. Difference Between Discoverable and Confidential Mode

9. CV/Resume Consent

If you upload or enable a CV/resume on Korum, you consent to Korum processing it for platform and hiring-related purposes.

Depending on your profile mode and settings:

• In Discoverable Mode, your CV/resume may be visible to verified or approved recruiters if uploaded or enabled.
• In Confidential Mode, your CV/resume may remain hidden until you approve access or complete a consent-led connection workflow.
• You are responsible for ensuring your CV/resume is accurate and does not include information you do not want shared under the selected profile mode.
• You should avoid including unnecessary sensitive personal information in your CV/resume.

10. Salary and Compensation Consent

Korum may allow you to provide salary range, expected compensation range, notice period, and related career information.

By providing this information, you consent to Korum using it to improve hiring relevance, recruiter matching, and opportunity filtering.

Depending on your profile mode and settings:

• In Discoverable Mode, salary or compensation range may be visible where provided or enabled.
• In Confidential Mode, salary or compensation information may remain hidden, limited, or shared only after approval.
• Korum encourages the use of compensation bands or ranges rather than exact salary details wherever possible.

11. reach-out / connection Consent

reach-out / connection is a controlled platform function that allows verified or approved recruiters to access specific information that is otherwise hidden by default.

In Discoverable Mode, a verified or approved recruiter may access direct contact details such as phone number or email address only through Korum’s paid contact-reveal feature, which involves a one-time credit charge. Contact reveal is not available where you have enabled do-not-contact.

In Confidential Mode, reach-out / connection may require your approval, additional access control, or consent-led access workflow before deeper information is shared.

Korum may log reach-out / connection events, including:

• Which recruiter or company connected
• Which profile was accessed
• Date and time of the reach-out / connection
• Type of information accessed
• Related role or hiring context where available
• Account and security metadata
• reach-out / connection logs may be retained for audit, security, misuse prevention, compliance, and dispute review.

12. Recruiter Access Requests

In some workflows, recruiters may need to request access before deeper information is shared.

An access request may include:

• Recruiter name
• Company name
• Role or opportunity details
• Hiring location
• Salary range or compensation range
• Work model
• Reason for access
• Consent-led access requirement, if applicable
• You may approve, reject, pause, or request additional information before deciding.
• Korum may record access request decisions for audit, platform accountability, and misuse prevention.

13. Consent-Led Access

Consent-led access may be used when additional confidentiality is required.

This may apply where:

• You are in Confidential Mode
• The role is confidential
• You request stronger protection
• The recruiter, employer, or company requires confidentiality
• Korum determines that additional confidentiality may be appropriate

Consent-led access may be between:

• You and the recruiter
• You and the employer or company
• You and another relevant hiring party
• Another structure shown in the specific consent-led access workflow
• Unless Worldhire Global Ltd is expressly named as a party to a specific consent-led access agreement, Worldhire acts as a platform facilitator and is not responsible for enforcing the consent-led access agreement between users.
• If another user breaches a consent-led access agreement or confidentiality obligation, that user is responsible for its own breach.
• Worldhire may take platform action where misuse is reported or suspected, but Worldhire is not required to mediate, arbitrate, settle, or enforce disputes between users.

14. Consent for Platform Notifications

By creating a Korum profile, you consent to receiving platform-related communications, including:

• Account notifications
• Profile status updates
• Recruiter interest notifications
• reach-out / connection notifications, where applicable
• Access request notifications
• Consent-led access workflow notifications
• Security alerts
• Policy updates
• Support communications
• These communications are necessary for platform operation and may continue even if you opt out of marketing communications.

15. Marketing Consent

Korum may send relevant product updates, opportunity-related communications, newsletters, event updates, or business communications where permitted.

You may opt out of marketing communications by using the unsubscribe option or by contacting us.

Opting out of marketing does not stop essential platform, legal, security, or service communications.

16. Consent Records and Audit Logs

Korum may keep records of consent and platform activity.

These may include:

• Profile creation consent
• Selected profile mode
• Changes to visibility mode
• reach-out / connection actions
• Access requests
• Candidate approvals
• Candidate rejections
• Consent-led access workflow activity
• CV/resume visibility settings
• Salary range visibility settings
• Account activity
• Support requests
• Misuse reports
• These records help Korum maintain platform accountability, prevent misuse, investigate disputes, comply with legal obligations, and protect users.

17. Changing Your Consent

You may change your consent or visibility preferences by using account settings or contacting support.

You may be able to:

• Move from Discoverable Mode to Confidential Mode
• Move from Confidential Mode to Discoverable Mode
• Pause your profile
• Hide your profile
• Remove your CV/resume from visibility
• Update salary or compensation information
• Reject access requests
• Withdraw from specific workflows
• Request profile deletion
• Some changes may affect future processing only. Past reach-out / connection activity, consent logs, access logs, consent-led access records, billing records, and security logs may be retained where necessary for audit, legal, security, compliance, or dispute-related reasons.

18. Withdrawal of Consent

Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw consent.

Examples include:

• Pausing your profile
• Changing from Discoverable Mode to Confidential Mode
• Requesting that your profile be hidden
• Removing your CV/resume from active visibility
• Withdrawing consent for future recruiter connection
• Rejecting access in consent-led access workflows
• Requesting deletion of your profile
• Withdrawal of consent does not affect processing already carried out before withdrawal.

Some records may continue to be retained where required for:

• Legal obligations
• Security
• Audit
• Billing
• Dispute review
• Misuse prevention
• Consent-led access enforcement records
• Compliance

19. Accuracy of Candidate Information

You are responsible for keeping your profile information accurate and up to date.

This includes:

• Work history
• Current role
• Current employer
• Skills
• Education
• Location
• Notice period
• Salary or compensation range
• Career preferences
• Availability status
• CV/resume
• Contact details
• Providing false, misleading, outdated, or incomplete information may result in reduced platform access, profile review, suspension, or removal.

20. Candidate Responsibility Before Choosing Discoverable Mode

Before selecting Discoverable Mode, you should understand that your professional profile may be seen by verified or approved recruiters, employers, companies, and hiring partners inside Korum.

You should select Discoverable Mode only if you are comfortable with your professional profile being discoverable within the platform.

If you require stronger confidentiality, you should select Confidential Mode.

21. Candidate Responsibility Before Uploading a CV/Resume

Before uploading or enabling a CV/resume, you should review it carefully.

Your CV/resume may contain information such as:

• Full name
• Contact details
• Current employer
• Past employers
• Education
• Address
• Personal details
• References
• Sensitive information
• You should remove any information you do not want shared under your selected visibility mode.
• Korum is not responsible for information you voluntarily include in a CV/resume and choose to make visible or share.

22. No Guarantee of Opportunity or Hiring Outcome

Creating a profile, selecting Discoverable Mode, receiving recruiter interest, receiving an access request, or participating in a consent-led access workflow does not guarantee:

• Interview selection
• Employer response
• Recruiter response
• Job offer
• Hiring outcome
• Salary offer
• Confidentiality by another user beyond agreed obligations
• Employment contract
• Joining
• Career outcome
• Recruiters and employers are responsible for their own hiring decisions.
• Professionals are responsible for evaluating opportunities before proceeding.

23. Misuse Reporting

If you believe a recruiter, employer, company, or other user has misused your information, breached confidentiality, contacted your current employer, misrepresented an opportunity, or violated platform rules, you may report the issue to:

• support@worldhire.com
• or
• privacy@worldhire.com
• Korum may review the report and take action where appropriate. This may include restricting, suspending, or terminating user access.
• Worldhire is not required to mediate, arbitrate, settle, or enforce disputes between users.

24. Data Retention

Korum may retain consent records, reach-out / connection logs, access request logs, consent-led access records, profile activity, support records, and misuse reports for audit, legal, security, compliance, and dispute review purposes.

Retention periods are described in our Privacy Policy and Data Retention & Deletion Policy.

25. Relationship With Other Policies

This Candidate Consent Policy forms part of Korum’s wider legal and platform policy framework.

It should be read with:

• Privacy Policy
• Terms of Use
• Recruiter Terms
• Recruiter Code of Conduct
• Confidentiality & Consent Policy
• Cookie Policy
• Data Retention & Deletion Policy
• Subprocessors & Data Locations page
• If there is a conflict between this policy and a signed agreement, the signed agreement will apply to the extent of that conflict.

26. Changes to This Policy

Worldhire may update this Candidate Consent Policy from time to time.

The updated version will be effective from the date shown at the top of this page.

Where changes are material, we may notify users through the website, email, account notice, or another appropriate method.

27. Contact

For questions about this Candidate Consent Policy, contact:

• Worldhire Global Ltd
• Registered Office: 124 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, United Kingdom
• Email: privacy@worldhire.com

For support:

• support@worldhire.com