Privacy notice

Who operates Kern

Kern is operated by Keller Executive Search.

The registered name of the legal entity and the name of its Information Officer are being confirmed by the owner and will be published here.

What is recorded

Kern records two kinds of information: what you or an employer provides about you, and what happens while you complete the assessment.

• Your name and email address, given by the employer who invited you or by you when you create an account.
• The statements you agreed to when you signed up, their exact wording, and when you agreed.
• Anything you write when you ask for an adjustment to the assessment, with the address you sent it from.
• Whether you have asked not to receive reminder emails.

While you complete the assessment, Kern records the same information listed in the candidate guide:

• Each answer, and how long you took over it. Nothing is timed: no clock runs, and taking longer changes nothing.
• The width and height of the window you answered in.
• When you started and when you finished.
• No camera, no microphone, no screen recording, and nothing to install.
• Nothing is put through AI writing detection or read by a language model. A person reads the result.
• At the end you can say how the assessment felt. That answer is kept without anything that links it to you.

Beyond the width and height of the window you answered in, nothing about your device is kept with your answers.

Why it is recorded

• So that the employer who invited you can read the result. A person at that organisation reads it before any decision is made from it.
• So that you can close the tab and come back to the same question.
• So that a person can answer a request for an adjustment.
• So that Kern can send you the emails about the assessment: the invitation, one reminder, and confirmation that your answers arrived.

Your answers and your result can be seen by authorised people at the employer that invited you. No other organisation using Kern can see them.

How long it is kept

Kern keeps your answers and your result for three years after the assessment ends, whether that is you finishing it or the invitation running out. That is the period you agree to when you create an account.

The period is long enough that a dispute about a hiring decision, raised within the time the law allows for one, cannot outlive the evidence it is about. A shorter period would delete the assessment a dispute concerned while the dispute was still open.

You can ask for all of it to be deleted at any time, and the section below says how.

Your copy of it, and deleting it

With a Kern account you can download what Kern holds about you as a file, and you can delete it. Both are on your account page. Deleting asks you to type a word first, because it cannot be undone.

Deleting removes your answers, your result, your invitations and your account, from every employer that invited you as well as from Kern. One thing it does not reach yet: a request for an adjustment you sent before you had an account is held on its own, and that one has to be removed for you. Ask on the page where you sent it and a person will remove it.

If you were invited by email and have not created an account, create one with the address the invitation went to. The assessment attaches to it and both options become yours.

The employer that invited you can remove its own record of you. That takes you off its lists; it does not delete your account, which only you can do.

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