Privacy
How the Become a Giraffe page and its application use your information.
Who we are
Giraffe is run by Perpetuum Innovations. In this notice, "we" means Perpetuum and its Giraffe team.
What you send when you apply
When you send your application, we store:
- your name, and the email or phone number you give;
- the question you picked and your answer, saved exactly as you wrote it;
- your area, in your own words, and, if you chose a place in the area search, its Google place ID;
- any links you add (Instagram, LinkedIn, your work, anywhere else), the skills you tick, your hours a week and what you do now;
- your confirmation that you're 18 or over and happy to be contacted about your application, and which version of that wording you saw;
- if you used Mr. G, whether you chose his read, and your answer to his question if you gave one;
- if you came from a friend's invitation link, the link's referral code, so your application is linked to theirs;
- any campaign tags in the link you opened (utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, utm_content);
- the time you sent it, a random ID for the sending attempt (so a retry isn't saved twice), and a one-way scrambled copy (a hash) of your email or phone number.
Your application is stored in Cloudflare D1, a database run by Cloudflare for us. Cloudflare also hosts this page.
Your application isn't saved until you press "Send my application". If sending fails, your answers stay on your screen so you can try again.
Who decides
A person on our team reads every application. No AI selects, scores or ranks applicants. Sending an application tells us you're interested; it isn't a job offer.
Mr. G, our AI sidekick (optional)
If you choose "Yes, read it", the question you picked and your answer are sent to OpenAI so Mr. G can reply. Your name, contact details, links and area are not sent.
Mr. G's reply is shown to you. It is not saved and our team doesn't see it. It isn't part of your application.
So that his follow-up question can be matched to the exact answer he read, we keep a short-lived record of that question with a hash of your answer, not the answer itself. It is set to expire after 48 hours and is removed by a daily clean-up. If you answer his question and send your application, your answer to it is saved with your application, separately from your main answer.
If you skip Mr. G's read, no question or answer is sent for an AI reply. Voice transcription is a separate optional feature, described below.
Saying your answer (optional)
If you choose to record your answer, your browser asks for the microphone first. The recording is sent through our server to OpenAI to turn it into text you can edit. Our app does not keep the audio. You decide whether to use, add, replace or discard the text.
Area search with Google Maps (optional)
When you search for your area, only the text you type is sent from our server to Google Maps Platform, to find matching places. When you choose a place, its Google place ID is sent to Google to confirm it. These requests come from our server, not your device.
We don't use your device's location or GPS, and we don't use your IP address to work out where you are.
We store only the Google place ID and the words you searched with. The place name and address that Google shows you are not saved.
Google's use of this information is covered by the Google Privacy Policy.
You can always type your area instead. Then nothing is sent to Google.
Invitations
After you apply, you get your own invitation link. A friend who applies through it has their application linked to yours. Neither of you can see the other's application, and it doesn't change how either of you is considered.
Technical information
- To limit misuse, our server keeps short-lived counters keyed to a hash of your IP address, not the address itself. They are deleted automatically after they expire.
- Cloudflare processes technical request information, such as your IP address, to deliver this page, and keeps operational logs for us. Our own server logs record errors as short codes, and never record your answers, your recording or the place you searched for.
- The Giraffe page itself sets no cookies, uses no browser storage and runs no analytics.
Who can see your application
The Giraffe team at Perpetuum, for reviewing applications and getting in touch with you about yours.
Keeping and deleting
Applications don't yet have an automatic deletion date. You can ask us to see, correct or delete your application at any time.
Contact
To ask about your application or this notice, contact Perpetuum.
The Terms explain what applying means.