Taste MakersTaste MakersWhat Taste holds about the people in its network, why we hold it, who else sees it, how long each piece stays, and how to get a copy or have it erased. Last updated 15 September 2026.
Everything here comes from one of three places: you typed it, we wrote it while working with you, or a service we use produced it.
The application form asks for your name, email address, phone number, country, years of experience, specializations, tools, English level, availability, hourly rate, and links to your portfolio, LinkedIn and GitHub. You can attach a portfolio file, a resume and a profile picture. If you take a skills test, we store your answers and anything you upload with them.
Our recruiters keep notes, ratings and review verdicts on the people they interview and staff, plus a log of the calls, emails and messages we exchange with you and when they were sent. It is working material, and it is yours to ask for or have erased like everything else.
Once you are staffed on a project: the contract you signed, the hours or deliverables recorded against it, invoices, and the payment and tax details needed to pay you. Some clients require an identity check or a background check before you can start; when that happens, the check is run by the providers named below and we store its result, not the underlying documents.
Your login account and its sign-in events. If analytics is switched on for the portal, we collect anonymous product usage, and personal fields are redacted before they leave the browser.
Your application, profile, tests and staffing history are processed to take steps at your request before a contract and then to perform it (GDPR Art.6(1)(b)). Recruiter notes and ratings rest on our legitimate interest in running a network where staffing decisions can be explained and repeated (Art.6(1)(f)). You can object to that, and the section on your rights says how.
Signed contracts and payment and tax records are kept to meet tax, accounting and company-law obligations (Art.6(1)(c)). That is the one category we cannot erase on request.
Identity and background checks run only when a specific client engagement requires one, and only after you agree to it. You can refuse, which means we cannot staff you on that engagement, and nothing else changes.
We do not sell anything about you and we do not share your record with advertisers. These are the services that process it on our behalf, each for one job:
When we put you forward for a role, the client staffing it sees the profile and the work you submitted for that role. They do not get the rest of your record, and they do not get our internal notes.
While you are in the network, and erased when you ask
Profile, applications, files, test submissions, notes, ratings, message log
It only exists to consider you for work. Ask for erasure and it goes, with a 30-day window in which you can change your mind.
6 years
Signed contracts, invoices, payment and tax records
Tax, accounting and company law require it. Erasure does not reach these, but they move out of recruiting: no one searching, staffing or exporting the network sees you in it again.
Kept
The record of your deletion
The date, what it covered and who ran it, so we can show you or a regulator that the erasure happened. It also holds a one-way hash of your email address, which is how a later data import cannot quietly recreate the record you asked us to destroy.
As long as the account exists
Sign-in events
Security. They go with the account.
Everything below is self-serve. Open your profile, scroll to “Your data”, and you can download a copy of your record as a JSON file (portability, Art.20), tell us to stop contacting you without deleting anything (objection, Art.21(2)), or ask us to erase your account (Art.17). Erasure waits 30 days before it runs, and you can stop it at any point in that window.
Write to portal.support@tastemaker.pro from the address you applied with. You can ask for a copy of what we hold, a correction, erasure, a restriction on how we use it, or that we stop contacting you. We answer within 30 days.
Tell us first at portal.support@tastemaker.pro, and if that does not settle it you can complain to the data protection authority where you live.