WorkScore Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 25, 2026

Please note: By clicking Sign in with LinkedIn, you agree to let WorkScore store your LinkedIn profile data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. See Section 2 for further details.

1. Introduction

This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains how WorkScore Inc. (“WorkScore,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, shares, and protects personal information in connection with the use of our website at workscore.com and our reputation platform that is accessible through our website (collectively, the “Service”). Visitors who are residents of California should also refer to the “Information for Residents of California” supplement at the end of this Privacy Policy. By signing in to or otherwise accessing or using the Service, you acknowledge your acceptance of, and agree to be bound by, this Privacy Policy. Please note that this Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time in accordance with Section 13 below, so please check back regularly. By using our Services after we have posted an updated Privacy Policy, you agree to that updated Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy or any updated Privacy Policy, please do not access or use the Services.

WorkScore is a professional reputation platform. We display professional information about individuals alongside peer-submitted ratings from verified coworkers, and we generate an aggregated 0–100 performance score (a “WorkScore”) based on those ratings. For a more detailed description see our Terms of Service, which this Privacy Policy is incorporated into.

Where the Service is offered. The Service is offered exclusively to residents of the United States. We do not target or solicit users in any other country or region. The Service is not directed to, and is not intended for use by, residents of any jurisdiction other than the United States. To register for the Service, you must confirm at signup that you reside in the United States. If your residency changes after registration such that you no longer reside in the United States, you must notify us because you are no longer eligible for the Service and you must discontinue use of the Service.

This policy covers four groups of people from whom we collect personal information:

Registered users who create a WorkScore account for the Service, including users who claim a profile of themselves.
Raters — verified coworkers (current or former) who submit anonymous ratings about other professionals.
Rated individuals — professionals whose information appears on the Service. This includes both registered users and individuals who have not registered for the Service but who have a profile derived from third-party professional data sources.
Visitors to our public website.

If you have questions about this policy or our privacy practices, contact us at privacy@workscore.com.

2. Information We Collect

2.1 Information provided to us voluntarily

Account information from LinkedIn sign-in. We use Sign in with LinkedIn for authentication. When you create an account for the Services by using LinkedIn, you agree and consent to our receipt and storage in the Service of the basic profile information LinkedIn makes available through its sign-in service, such as your name, email address and profile photo. We do not receive your LinkedIn password — authentication is handled by LinkedIn — and we do not receive your employment, education, or other LinkedIn profile information through LinkedIn sign-in.

Work experience. After you register, we attempt to match your account to a profile in our licensed third-party professional dataset of publicly available information (see Section 2.3). If a match is made, your account is associated with the work experience information from that profile. Whether or not a match is made, you can edit your work experience and voluntarily add new work experiences or employment history directly within the Service at any time.

Ratings and rating context. When you submit a rating through the Service, we collect the rating content along with your employment context required to verify the rater–subject relationship (your employer, overlapping dates, your general role). Ratings are stored under the anonymity model described in our Terms of Service. We do not ask you to submit any personal data, including sensitive personal information, about you or anyone else.

Communications through the Service. You may browse our website without submitting personal information. If you contact us, request support, or respond to surveys or other features through the Services, we collect limited personal information when you provide it in addition to the content of those communications such as your name and email address.

Payment information. The Service does not currently offer paid features. If we offer paid features in the future, we will update this policy and describe how payment information is collected at that time.

2.2 Information we collect automatically

Device and usage information. We or our service providers and vendors (“Service Providers”) collect information about your device (IP address, browser type, operating system, device identifiers) and your interactions with the Service (pages visited, features used, search queries, timestamps, referring URLs).

Cookies and similar technologies. We or our Service Providers automatically collect this information by using cookies, local storage, and similar browser-storage technologies for authentication, security, analytics, and to support core user-experience features.

We or our Service Providers use the following categories of cookies and similar browser-storage technologies:

Strictly necessary — required for authentication, session management, and security. These cannot be disabled without preventing the Service from functioning.
Functional — used to support necessary core user-experience features within the Service.
Analytics — used to understand how the Service is used in aggregate, so we can improve it. Analytics is provided through a third-party service.

You can control cookies through your browser settings. You can opt out of analytics tracking by enabling Global Privacy Control (GPC) in your browser, or by contacting us at privacy@workscore.com. If you opt out of certain cookies, you may not be able to access certain parts of the Service.

We do not use cookies or similar technologies for advertising, cross-context behavioral advertising, or to track you across other websites.

Analytics implementation. Our analytics service runs in a privacy-first configuration on pre-login pages (including marketing and signup pages), collecting only aggregate page-level information without persistent identifiers, cookies, or IP addresses. Analytics in the authenticated product collects identified usage data only after you have created an account and accepted our Terms of Service.

2.3 Information we collect from third-party sources

Licensed professional data providers. We license professional profile information from third-party data providers. This information is collected by those providers from publicly available online sources (such as professional networking platforms and public web pages) and includes business-related information such as name, current and prior employment, job titles, and public profile information.

We use this licensed data to (a) build initial professional profiles within the Service, including profiles of individuals who have not yet registered (see Section 4), and (b) verify and supplement information provided by registered users.

Service Providers. We receive information from Service Providers who support our operations and Services, including identity verification, fraud prevention, analytics, hosting, and email delivery and other data providers (together “Service Providers”).

2.4 Information we collect about other people/unregistered users

When you submit a rating about another person through the Service, or send them a request to rate you, that person must be a verified coworker — meaning they satisfy the company-and-time-overlap rule defined in Section 4.2, based on the work history information available to us. The person whose profile you are interacting with is identified through this verified overlap; you do not separately provide their personal information to us other than providing Ratings.

When you submit a rating, the rating itself is a numeric value from 0 to 10. You are not provided with the opportunity to provide any information about others other than Ratings, which do not currently include written feedback or other commentary.

When you send a request for a rating of yourself by someone else, we record the request, the person you sent it to, and (where applicable) we may use a third-party Service Provider to obtain that person’s email address so we can deliver the request. See Section 4.4 for how this works for unregistered individuals.

You should only rate or request ratings from people with whom you have a genuine professional working relationship.

3. How We Use Information

We use personal information for the following purposes:

Operating and providing the Service. Creating and maintaining accounts, displaying profiles, processing ratings, processing rating requests, and generating WorkScores and for other purposes for which you provided the information.
Communications with unregistered individuals. Sending activity digests and informational emails to individuals who have not registered, as described in Section 4.4.
Fraud, abuse, and integrity. Detecting and preventing fraudulent ratings, identity misrepresentation, rating manipulation, and other misuse of the Service or violations of our policies or the law and to establish, defend against or enforce any related claims.
Improving the Service. Analyzing aggregate usage patterns, debugging issues, and developing new features. We use a third-party analytics service to support this (see Section 2.2).
Responding to user concerns and legal demands. We provide an in-product mechanism for registered users to contact a WorkScore administrator with concerns or feedback. Separately, we comply with applicable laws and respond to valid legal process — such as subpoenas, court orders, and lawful government requests — and we may use personal information as necessary to enforce our Terms of Service or to protect the rights, property, or safety of WorkScore, our users, or others.
To notify you about substantive changes to our privacy practices or Terms of Service.

Automated processing. Your WorkScore is calculated by a deterministic arithmetic formula from peer-submitted ratings — specifically, the Net Promoter Score methodology normalized to a 0–100 scale. We do not use machine learning models to evaluate individuals or to determine WorkScores. The Service includes a coworker suggestion feature that uses text-similarity techniques (comparing job titles, employment dates, and tenure overlap) to rank potential coworkers you may want to rate; this feature surfaces suggestions for your consideration and does not make decisions about you or about other users.

4. How we Collect and Use Information of Individuals Who Have Not Registered

This section is important. WorkScore may contain a profile of you even if you have never registered for the Service.

4.1 How unregistered profiles exist

We license publicly available professional information from Service Providers (see Section 2.3). Using that information, we build profiles within the Service that may include name, employment history, role, and similar business information. A registered user who has a verified working relationship with such a person — based on the company-and-time-overlap rule described in Section 4.2 — may view that profile, submit a rating about that person, or request a rating from coworkers.

Geographic scope of unregistered profiles. Consistent with the Service’s geographic scope (Section 1), we only build unregistered profiles for individuals located in the United States. We do not build unregistered profiles for individuals located outside the United States.

4.2 Visibility of unregistered profiles

Unregistered profiles are not publicly searchable, browsable, or visible to the general public. A registered user can only see an unregistered profile if both of the following are true:

The registered user and the unregistered individual worked at the same company at some point, and
Their employment dates at that company overlapped in time.

We refer to this in this policy as the company-and-time-overlap rule. If this rule is not satisfied, the registered user will not see the unregistered individual’s profile on WorkScore.

When the company-and-time-overlap rule is satisfied, the registered user can see publicly available business-related information about the unregistered individual sourced from our licensed third-party Service Provider (Section 2.3).

We do not display ratings, WorkScores, or rating-derived information on unregistered profiles. This restriction concerns what a registered user can see when viewing another person’s profile; it does not limit the activity information we may provide to unregistered individuals about their own profile, such as the number of ratings and rating requests they have received, as described in Sections 4.3 and 4.4. WorkScores are only generated for registered users, and a registered user’s WorkScore is only viewable by other people if the user generates a personal share link and shares it (see next section).

4.3 Notice when you are rated

If you have not registered, we may send you a periodic digest email summarizing activity relating to your profile (see Section 4.4). When someone rates you, those ratings are anonymous — we tell you that you have received ratings, but we do not disclose the content or value of any rating, the identity of anyone who rated you, or a WorkScore. When a registered user requests a rating from you, that user is asking you to rate them, so the digest may identify them by name and a company you have in common. Consistent with Section 4.2, unregistered profiles do not display ratings or a WorkScore. If you are concerned about whether information about you appears on WorkScore, you can search for yourself and exercise the rights set forth in Section 7 below at any time.

4.4 Communications with unregistered individuals

We may contact individuals who have not registered for the Service, using contact information we obtain from a third-party Service Provider (see Section 2.3). We contact only individuals located in the United States. We send two types of emails to unregistered individuals:

Activity digests. Periodic emails summarizing activity relating to your profile — including the ratings you have received and any requests from registered users asking you to rate them — and inviting you to claim your profile and manage your information. As described in Section 4.3, ratings are anonymous and we do not include any rating value, rater identity, or WorkScore; a rating request may identify the requesting user by name and a company you have in common.
Informational emails. Emails about WorkScore inviting you to register or claim your profile.

Both types of email include a clear way to unsubscribe, and you may opt out at any time using that link or by contacting privacy@workscore.com; we honor those requests promptly on a going-forward basis. Opting out does not remove your profile from the Service — to exercise rights regarding your profile, see Section 7.

5. How We Share Information

We share personal information in the following circumstances:

With other people, when you share your WorkScore. Other users of the Service cannot search for or browse to your WorkScore. The only way another person sees your WorkScore is if you generate a personal share link and voluntarily provide it to them yourself. Share links are publicly accessible (for more information see our Terms of Service). Once you share a link, the recipient may further distribute it without our involvement.

With Service Providers. We share information with Service Providers who help us operate the Service, including hosting, identity verification, analytics, fraud prevention, payment processing, customer support, and email delivery providers. These providers are bound by contractual obligations that limit their use of personal information.

For legal and safety reasons. We may disclose information to comply with applicable laws, respond to valid legal process (subpoenas, court orders, lawful government requests), enforce this Privacy Policy, our Terms of Service or other policies, to protect the rights, property, or safety of WorkScore, our users, or others and to address actual or suspected illegal activity or for other reasons we determine in good faith are necessary, appropriate or required by law or regulation.

In a business transaction. If WorkScore is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets, personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to standard confidentiality protections.

In aggregated or de-identified form. We may share aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you.

We do not sell personal information as that term is defined under California or other US state privacy laws, and we do not engage in cross-context behavioral advertising.

6. Third-Party Links and Services

The Services may contain links to third-party websites or integrate with services that are not operated by us (“Third-Party Websites”). Third-Party Websites may collect information about you when you interact with them through our Service or when you click on provided links. You should review the privacy policies of those sites or services to find out how they protect your privacy. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those Third-Party Websites.

7. Your Rights and Choices

You and anyone we collect personal information from as described in this policy including all users of the Service may have certain rights regarding your personal information depending on applicable privacy laws. Section 12 describes additional rights based on certain jurisdictions. These rights may include:

Access. Request a copy of the personal information we hold about you during the period of time set forth in the applicable law.

Correction. Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct inaccurate data in accordance with applicable laws.

Deactivation and deletion. You can deactivate your account at any time using the in-product deactivation option. Deactivation hides your profile and disables your share link, while preserving your account data so you can request reinstatement later (see Section 8). You may request that we permanently delete your account and the personal information we have collected from you subject to any applicable legal or statutory exceptions and information. Section 8 describes what happens with each option.

Portability. Request a copy of your personal information in a portable format.

Marketing opt-out. You can opt out of marketing emails at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any email or by updating your communication preferences in your account settings. Registered users of the Service can manage their email communication preferences in their account settings, including preferences for service-related notifications, engagement nudges, and product updates and announcements. All notifications go to the email address associated with your account. Opting out of one or more categories does not affect operational messages we are required to send you, such as security notices, terms or policy updates, and account-related confirmations.

If these rights are applicable to you, you may exercise any of these rights by contacting us at privacy@workscore.com or managing the relevant settings in your account if applicable. We will verify your identity before responding to a request and will respond in accordance with and within the timeframes required by applicable law. We will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights.

If we deny your request, we will explain why and tell you how to appeal.

8. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected and for the purposes described in this policy or where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so, or as otherwise prescribed by law, regulatory, accounting or reporting requirements. For example:

Active accounts. While your account is active, we retain your account information, work history, ratings received, ratings given, notification preferences, and other account data for as long as your account remains active.
Deactivated accounts. If you choose to deactivate your account using the in-product deactivation option, your profile is hidden from other users, your share link is disabled, and you are removed from rateable-coworker lists. Your account data is preserved in our systems in a recoverable form so that you can request reinstatement later (subject to admin approval). Ratings you previously gave continue to count toward other users’ WorkScores while your account is deactivated.
Deleted accounts. If you exercise your right to deletion, your account and your personal information is deleted in accordance with applicable privacy laws. In accordance with applicable privacy laws, a minimum amount of personal information may be added to an internal suppression solely for the purposes of preventing your personal information from being re-ingested from third-party data sources in future updates. Ratings you previously gave about other people are not deleted; instead, as part of honoring your deletion request, we sever the link between those ratings and your identity. The rating value and the company-and-time context are retained so that other users’ WorkScores are not affected by an unrelated person’s deletion, but the ratings can no longer be linked back to you. We take this approach because deleting ratings given by a departing user would change the WorkScores of unrelated third parties. This anonymization applies only when an account is deleted pursuant to your request and applicable privacy laws. During normal operation, while your account is active or deactivated, we may retain the link between you and the ratings you have submitted in order to verify ratings, investigate fraud and abuse, respond to valid legal process, and operate the Service and for other reasons set forth in this policy.

When we no longer need personal information for the reasons set forth in this policy, we delete or de-identify it.

9. Data Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. These measures include encryption of data in transit between you and the Service, encryption of data at rest, access controls, and logging.

No system, including any system like the Services that requires the transmission of information through the Internet, is perfectly secure and we therefore cannot guarantee the security of any information transmitted to or through the Services. You provide any personal information to us at your own risk. If we become aware of a security incident affecting your personal information, we will notify you as required by applicable law.

10. Cross-Border Data Transfers

WorkScore is operated from the United States and is intended for United States residents. If you access the Service or our website from outside the United States, your information will be transferred to and processed in the United States, and by using the website or the Services you consent to such transfer and processing. The privacy laws of the United States may differ from those of the jurisdiction from which you are accessing the Service, and your information may be accessible to U.S. courts, law enforcement, and government authorities where permitted by law. We use contractual and technical safeguards designed to protect your information consistent with this policy.

11. Children’s Information

WorkScore is a professional product intended for adults in the workforce. Users must be eighteen (18) years of age to use our Service or such higher age of majority as may be required by the laws of your jurisdiction. The Service (including our website) is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe we have collected information from a child, contact us at privacy@workscore.com and we will delete it.

12. Region-Specific Disclosures

12.1 Information for Residents of California

Last updated: June 25, 2026

This section provides disclosures required by the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (collectively, “CCPA”) and supplements the Privacy Policy above and is only relevant if you are a resident of California. This section applies only to the extent that the CCPA applies to WorkScore and the Services. Information required to be disclosed to California residents under the CCPA that is not included in this supplement is otherwise set forth in the Privacy Policy above.

Categories of personal information we collect. We have collected the following categories of personal information, as defined under the CCPA over the last twelve (12) months:

Identifiers (such as name, email, account credentials, IP address, device identifiers)
Personal records and other information under California Civil Code § 1798.80(e) (such as employment information)
Commercial information (such as transaction history, if applicable)
Internet and network activity information (such as information regarding your use of our website)
Professional and employment-related information
Inferences drawn from the above (including WorkScores)

Sources. We collect information from you, automatically through your use of the Service, from licensed third-party data providers, and from other Service Providers.

Business purposes. We use this information for the purposes described in Sections 3 and 4 and within the last twelve (12) months we have shared each of the categories of personal information collected as described with Service Providers.

Sharing. We share these categories of information with the parties described in Section 5.

Sale and sharing. We do not “sell” personal information and do not “share” personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, as those terms are defined under CCPA and we have not done so in the preceding 12 months.

Sensitive personal information. We do not collect or use sensitive personal information for any purpose that triggers the CCPA right to limit sensitive personal information processing.

Retention. See Section 8.

Your CCPA rights. California residents have the right to know, delete, correct, and opt out of sale/sharing (not applicable here, as we do not sell or share as those terms are defined under the CCPA). See Section 7 above for more information about these rights, which apply to California residents. In terms of your access rights, you have the right to request that we disclose the categories of personal information we collected about you, the categories of sources from which the personal information is collected, our business or commercial purpose for collecting such personal information, the categories of third parties with whom we share the personal information, the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you and if we disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, the categories of personal information that each category of recipient obtained. To exercise your rights, contact us at privacy@workscore.com or the mailing address in Section 14 or manage the relevant settings in your account. You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf in writing and we may deny a request if the agent does not submit sufficient proof that you authorized the agent to act on your behalf. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights.

Appeals. If we deny your request, you may appeal by replying to our denial or contacting us at privacy@workscore.com.

We do not disclose “personal information” subject to California’s “Shine the Light Law,” California Civil Code Section 1798.83. However, you may request information about our compliance with the Shine the Light Law by contacting us at privacy@workscore.com. Please note that we are only required to respond to one request per customer each year and we are not required to respond to requests made by means other than through this email address.

12.2 Residents of Other US States

If you are a resident of a US state with a comprehensive privacy law in effect and such law applies to WorkScore or the Services, you may have rights similar to those described above for California residents, including the right to access, correct, delete, and obtain a portable copy of your personal information, and to opt out of certain processing activities as set forth in Section 7 above.

To exercise these rights if such laws are applicable, contact us at privacy@workscore.com or the mailing address set forth in Section 14. If required by applicable law, we will respond within the timeframes required by your state’s law and will provide an appeal process if we deny your request.

13. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. When we make material changes, we will notify you by email (if you have an account) or by posting a prominent notice on the Service before the changes take effect. The “Last updated” date at the top of this policy indicates when it was last revised.

14. Contact Us

For privacy questions or requests:

Email: privacy@workscore.com

Mail:

WorkScore Inc.

c/o Registered Agent Solutions, Inc.

838 Walker Road, Suite 21-2

Dover, DE 19904