The short version
UTalento helps you explore your strengths, study and work paths, and wellbeing. We collect as little as we can to do that. We never sell or show anyone's individual results. Insights we share with schools, employers, or universities are always built from many people's answers combined, so no single person can be identified. This is also how we keep UTalento free for students.
Who we are
UTalento is operated by Talent Venture Studios AB (org. nr 559549-8329), Box 3053, 103 61 Stockholm, Sweden. We are the controller of the personal data described here. For anything about your data, contact us at viktor@talentventurestudios.com.
What we collect, and why
- If you use UTalento in a classroom (via a class code): a nickname you choose, and your answers in the activities — your interests and strengths profile (RIASEC), preferred ways of working, what you value in work, school subjects, and suggested study programmes. On the standard class-code path we do not ask for your name or email; your class code is the only link between your answers and your class. If your school uses sign-in accounts, we also store the email and password you register with.
- As you use the activities: we also record how you interact with them — which paths you open, how long you spend, and what you react to. This helps us understand what young people are curious about and make UTalento better.
- In the classmate (sociometric) activity: the classmates you choose for each question. This means we also process information about you that a classmate gave when they chose you. This activity only runs when your teacher switches it on, and its results are visible only to your teacher.
- If you use UTalento on your own (a personal account): the name and email you sign up with. The profile you build as you go — your goals, interests, how you're feeling about work, and your test results — is stored on your own device and isn't sent to our servers unless we tell you so at the time.
- If you're a teacher: your email and password, your profile name, and the classes and activities you create. You can see the results of students in your own classes only.
- If you're an employer: your company details and the job posts you create. You see candidates' own stated information and practical fit — location, availability, languages, and what they wrote about themselves. You never see a person's test scores, ranking, or match percentage.
- Everyone: basic technical data your browser sends (such as IP address and device type) and, if you accept analytics cookies, how the site is used. See our Cookie Policy.
Insights we create (and how UTalento stays free for students)
Running UTalento costs money, and we keep it free for students by creating insight reports for schools, employers, and universities — for example, the kinds of work a year-group is drawn to, or how interest in a field is changing. These reports are always built from many people's answers combined, with a minimum group size, so that no individual can be recognised or singled out. We never share, sell, or show an individual's results, profile, or scores to an employer or any other organisation.
The grounds we rely on
| What | Ground (GDPR) |
|---|---|
| Running your account and the service | Contract — Art. 6(1)(b) |
| Your test, profile, and classmate answers (these can be sensitive) | Your explicit consent — Art. 9(2)(a); for classroom use, arranged with your school |
| How you interact with the activities | Your consent — Art. 6(1)(a); for classroom use, arranged with your school |
| Creating aggregated, non-identifying insights | Legitimate interests — Art. 6(1)(f), on data that no longer identifies you |
| Keeping the service secure and working | Legitimate interests — Art. 6(1)(f) |
| Analytics cookies | Your consent — Art. 6(1)(a) |
You can withdraw consent at any time; it doesn't affect anything we did before you withdrew.
Who can see it
- Your teacher and school see the results of students in their own classes.
- Our service providers process data on our behalf under contract: Supabase (database and sign-in) and Vercel (hosting), both in the EU, and Google Analytics if you accept analytics cookies.
- Employers, universities, and similar organisations only ever receive aggregated insights — never an individual's results. We don't sell individual data.
Where it's processed
We process data within the EU/EEA. Google Analytics may transfer data outside the EU; where that happens, it's covered by the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.
How long we keep it
| Data | Kept for |
|---|---|
| Account data | While your account is open; deleted within 90 days of closure. |
| Classroom results | Until your teacher deletes the class or activity, or the end of the school year. |
| Classmate (sociometric) answers | Deleted when the activity is deleted. |
| How you interact with the activities | Up to 24 months, then aggregated or deleted. |
| Personal-account profile (on your device) | Until you clear it, or use "delete my data". |
| Analytics | Up to 14 months. |
| Aggregated, non-identifying insights | May be kept indefinitely, as they no longer identify anyone. |
Automated profiling
UTalento turns your answers into a profile and suggestions — study paths, ways of working, fit with a role. It's automated, and it's there to inform you. It never decides anything about you on its own, and it never blocks you from applying anywhere. A suggestion is a starting point for your own choice, not a verdict.
Children
UTalento is used by people under 18. For anyone under 14, or for the parts that involve sensitive answers, we rely on the school or a guardian to give consent before taking part. We keep what we collect from younger users to the minimum needed.
Your rights
You can ask us to show you your data, correct it, delete it, limit how we use it, or give you a copy to take elsewhere, and you can object to certain uses. Email viktor@talentventurestudios.com and we'll help. You can also contact your data-protection authority — in Sweden, the Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY, imy.se); in Spain, the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD, aepd.es).