Talent Forge Group (“Talent Forge,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is a recruitment and staffing firm that connects skilled professionals with high-trust employers across engineering, healthcare, finance, construction, and other industries, coast to coast across the United States.

This Privacy Policy applies to personal information we collect through our website, our candidate and employer services, our scheduling and communication tools, and our day-to-day business operations. For the personal information described here, Talent Forge Group acts as the data controller, meaning we decide how and why it is used.

By using our website or services, you acknowledge the practices described in this policy. If anything is unclear, contact our privacy team, we’d rather over-explain than leave you guessing.

The categories below cover the personal information we collect, with examples and where each comes from. We collect it only when we have a genuine reason connected to matching people with roles or running our business.

We do not ask for, and encourage you not to send, sensitive personal information (such as health details, government ID numbers, or financial account numbers) unless it is genuinely required for a specific placement and we have told you why.

We use personal information to:

• Match candidates with roles: assessing skills, experience, and fit against opportunities we’re working on.
• Present your profile to employers: only for roles we’ve discussed with you, and only with your knowledge.
• Respond and schedule: answering enquiries, booking strategy calls, and managing interviews and placements.
• Serve our employer clients: understanding hiring needs, shortlisting, and managing our business relationship.
• Send updates you asked for: like our monthly newsletter of hiring signals and market notes. Every email includes an unsubscribe link.
• Run and improve our website: keeping it secure, measuring what’s useful, and fixing what isn’t.
• Meet legal obligations: record-keeping, tax, employment law, and responding to lawful requests.

We do not use your personal information for automated decisions that would have a legal or similarly significant effect on you without human involvement. A real recruiter reviews every match.

We share personal information only in these situations:

• Prospective employers: if you’re a candidate, we share your profile with the specific clients whose roles we’ve discussed with you. We don’t blast your resume across the market.
• Service providers: trusted vendors who host our website, deliver email, provide analytics, and power scheduling (for example, Cal.com when you book a strategy call). They may only use your data to provide services to us.
• Professional advisers: lawyers, accountants, and insurers where reasonably necessary.
• Legal and safety: where required by law, court order, or to protect the rights, safety, and property of our candidates, clients, team, or others.
• Business transfers: if Talent Forge Group is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, personal information may transfer as part of that transaction, under the protections of this policy.

Our website also links to third-party sites and embeds third-party tools (such as social platforms, Google Fonts, and Cal.com). Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies, which we encourage you to read.

Most browsers let you refuse or delete cookies through their settings. Blocking essential cookies may stop parts of the site, like the contact form or call booking, from working properly. Where required by law, we honour opt-out preference signals such as Global Privacy Control.

When data is no longer needed, we delete it or irreversibly anonymise it. Where deletion isn’t immediately possible (for example, in secure backups), we isolate the data until deletion is.

We apply technical and organisational safeguards that are proportionate to the data we hold, including:

• Encryption in transit (TLS 1.2+) and at rest for our core systems.
• Least-privilege access: only the team members working your search can see your file.
• Vendor due diligence: we choose service providers with strong security practices and bind them contractually.
• Incident response: if a breach ever affects your data, we’ll notify you and regulators as the law requires, without dragging our feet.

No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure, so we can’t guarantee absolute security, but we work hard to earn the trust you place in us, and we keep improving.

To exercise any of these rights, email admin@talentforgegroup-com-147082.hostingersite.com with the subject line “Privacy request.” We’ll verify it’s really you, usually by replying to the email address on file, and respond within one business day, completing most requests within 30 days or sooner where the law requires. We will never treat you differently for exercising your rights.

Residents of California (CCPA/CPRA) and other US states with comprehensive privacy laws may have the right to know, access, correct, and delete personal information; the right to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of personal information; the right to limit the use of sensitive personal information; and the right not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights.

We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising. We also do not knowingly collect or process sensitive personal information for purposes beyond those permitted by law. Where required, we honour Global Privacy Control signals as a valid opt-out.

You may use an authorised agent to submit a request on your behalf; we’ll ask for proof of authorisation and verify your identity. If we decline a request, you can appeal by replying to our decision email, and we’ll have someone new take a second look.

Talent Forge Group is based in the United States, and the personal information we collect is stored and processed there. If you access our services from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, or another region with data transfer rules, we rely on appropriate safeguards, such as standard contractual clauses with our service providers, where they are required.

You can ask us about the safeguards that apply to your data by contacting our privacy team.

Our website and services are not directed to individuals under 16, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us and we will delete it promptly.

We review this policy regularly and update it as our services, technology, or the law changes. The “Last updated” date at the top of this page always reflects the current version. For material changes, we will provide a prominent notice on our website, and, where appropriate, email the people it affects, before the change takes effect.