Clive
The short version: Clive uses what you tell him to find you the right roles, help you run your search and get better at helping graduates. We say how that learning works because it is part of the deal, not something to hide in small print.
Last updated: 8 October 2026Clive is an early-stage service run through Clive Careers Ltd (company no. 17417935, 66 Paul Street, London EC2A 4NA), which is the data controller. This policy covers the website at clive.careers and the app at app.clive.careers. The cookie policy covers cookies.
Privacy questions, rights requests and complaints: [email protected]. ICO registration number: ZC265665.
You tell Clive what you studied and what you want. He turns that into a search, ranks UK graduate schemes against it and explains each match. We keep what you tell him so he can keep helping you, and we learn from how searches go so Clive gets better at helping graduates. We do not sell your information. We do not send employers anything about you unless you ask us to in the app, and today Clive does not do that at all.
Your account. Email address and sign-in method, from you or from Google if you sign in with Google.
What you tell Clive. Your study details, the kind of work you want, where and when, your right to work in the UK, and anything else you add in your own words. Where the app offers a microphone and you use it, your speech is transcribed to text and the recording is not kept.
What Clive works out. Your search summary, your preferences and the schemes he matched you with.
What you do next. Feedback on matches, the adverts you open, and whatever you put in your job tracker.
On the website. Waitlist details you give us (name, email, and optionally university, course and graduation month), with your consent. When you visit the home page or one of the pages aimed at employers (Employers, Contact), our server records the request: the date and time, the page address, the HTTP method, the site that referred you, your browser's user-agent, your country, and your IP address together with the network operator it belongs to. Website analytics are described in the cookie policy.
Job information comes from employers' public careers pages and job boards. It is about jobs, not about you.
To provide Clive. Asking your questions, writing your search, ranking schemes, running your tracker, signing you in and sending service emails. Basis: our contract with you.
To make Clive better. We read conversations, matches and feedback to find mistakes; test new features and compare AI models; build evaluation and training data with direct identifiers removed; and link what people wanted at the start with what happened later, which may mean emailing you to ask how your search went. Basis: our legitimate interest in making Clive accurate and useful. You can object at any time and it does not change the service you get.
To keep Clive safe and legal. Security logs, usage limits, investigating misuse, and meeting legal duties. Basis: legitimate interests or legal obligation.
To send you updates you asked for. Basis: consent, which you can withdraw in any email.
Sensitive information. Clive never asks for health, disability, ethnicity, religion, sexuality or similar. If you mention it, it is kept with your conversation so Clive can respond, and we do not deliberately use it for anything else.
You are talking to an AI, not a person. Clive ranks schemes automatically and leaves out ones that clearly cannot work for you. A ranking is a recommendation, not a decision about whether you can apply or be hired: employers decide that, and Clive sends them nothing. If you think a scheme was left out wrongly, email us and a person will look at it. If we ever make an automated decision that significantly affects you, we will tell you first and give you the safeguards the law requires.
Employers. We do not send employers your profile, your answers or your contact details. When you open an advert you go to the employer's own site, which sees your visit like any website does. If we ever offer to pass something on to an employer for you, it will only happen when you ask for it in the app.
Service providers run parts of Clive for us and may use your information only for that.
| Provider | What they do for Clive | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services | Hosts the app and its database; sends emails | London, UK |
| Supabase | Runs sign-in | London, UK |
| Microsoft Azure | Runs the AI model that reads your answers | European Union |
| ElevenLabs | Turns speech into text, where the app offers a microphone | United States and EU |
| PostHog | Counts how the app and website are used; never sees your answers | European Union |
| Cloudflare | Carries traffic to the website and app and protects them | Global network |
Our AI provider is not allowed to use your information to train its own models. We may also share information with advisers and authorities where the law requires, and with a future owner of the business, who would be bound by this policy. We may publish or license genuinely anonymised statistics and insights about graduate careers.
Outside the UK. Your data is stored in London. Where a provider processes it in the EU, the UK recognises that as adequate. Where one is US-owned or runs a global network, we rely on the UK-US data bridge or the UK's approved contract terms.
| What | How long |
|---|---|
| Your account and everything in the app | While your account is open. We may close an unused account after emailing you first. |
| After you delete your account | Access ends immediately; everything else is erased 90 days later |
| Database backups | 7 days |
| App server logs and website visit logs | 180 days |
| Waitlist entries | 24 months, unless you leave sooner |
| Anonymised statistics | Indefinitely, because they no longer identify you |
If you ask us to erase your information rather than just closing your account, we do that on request. Deletion does not undo improvements already made using information that no longer identifies you.
In the app, under Your profile and Account and data, you can see, change, download and delete your information yourself. By email you can also object to a use based on legitimate interests (for example, to keep your conversations out of training data), ask us to restrict a use while we look into a concern, withdraw consent, or ask a person to review a match. We reply within one month and do not charge, and we may ask you to confirm your identity first.
If you are unhappy with how we handle your information, please tell us first. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk or on 0303 123 1113.
Clive is for people aged 18 and over; if we learn we hold a younger person's information, we delete it. Your data is encrypted in our database and access is limited to named staff who need it. If a breach puts you at risk, we will tell you and the ICO as the law requires. The current version of this policy and its date are always on this page, and we will tell you about a material change before it takes effect.