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Last updated 1 November 2026

Who we are

Worksider is run by Innogency Ventures Pte. Ltd., a company registered in Singapore (UEN 202645595G). That company is responsible for your personal data under Singapore's Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), and "we" on this page means it.

What we collect

People looking for work: your email and name (if you sign in with Google, your first name comes from Google, and nothing else from it but your email), and whatever you add to your profile. That can be where you are now (studying, in NS, working), whether you are looking, your school, course, qualification and graduation year, your job title, employer, field, industry and years of experience, when you could start, your right to work in Singapore, the pay you are aiming for, skills, languages, the kind of work and company you want, a short intro, a CV and links, including LinkedIn. Every one of these is optional. We do not ask for your NRIC, phone number, gender, race or religion. We do not ask your age either. Zhi Wei's introductions are only for people 18 or older, which we take from what you tell us (working, serving NS or at university); anybody else who wants them ticks that they are 18 or older.

If you talk to Zhi Wei: what you say in the chat, and the answers he picks up from it. See Zhi Wei below.

Companies: company name, work email, website, and optionally your UEN.

Why

To show you relevant roles, to send an application to a company when you choose to apply, to let companies find you for their roles if you say yes to that, to introduce you to other people on Worksider for networking or mentoring if you say yes to that, and to email you matching roles if you ask for that. Pay figures from job listings are used, without naming anyone, in our Singapore pay averages.

Who sees it

A company sees your profile and CV for roles you actually apply to. From then on, that company is responsible for your details under the PDPA too, and may use them only to consider you for the role.

Unless you switch it to "Only companies I apply to", companies can find you on Worksider. That means a company may be shown a short summary of your profile when it fits one of their roles: no name, no contact details, no employer, no school, no links and no pay. If the company is interested, we ask you. Your name, contact details and CV go to that company only after you say yes to it. We never show your profile to the company you say you work for. You can change this on your profile at any time.

Unless you untick "Introduce me to people", we may also introduce you to someone else on Worksider for networking or mentoring. Each of you first sees the same kind of summary, with no name or contact details. Your name and contact details go to that person only after you both say yes.

Once you have told Zhi Wei what you are looking for and who you would like to meet, you are in for introductions if you are 18 or older, because that is what he is for; you can turn them off on your profile at any time. Anybody he cannot tell is 18 or older ticks that they are first. While you are in, he suggests who you might like to meet by comparing what you told him with what others told him. A person at Worksider checks every suggestion before anyone is emailed. Each of you then sees the other's card: what they do, what they want to learn, what they can teach and who they want to meet. If you both say yes, you each get the other's name and email, and their LinkedIn if it is on their profile. If either of you says no, or nobody answers in 14 days, neither of you is ever told who the other was. We only introduce people who are 18 or older: working, serving NS or at university, or who ticked that they are.

Some answers are never shown to any company or to anyone we introduce you to: the pay you are aiming for, whether you are looking, the kind of company you want, and your current employer. We use them only to decide which roles fit you.

Reading your CV

If you press "Read my CV", your CV is sent to Anthropic, the company that makes Claude, to be read. What it finds is shown to you in the form to check, and nothing is saved until you press Save. Anthropic processes it for us under its commercial terms, which do not allow it to train its models on it. What was read from your CV is deleted when your CV is.

Zhi Wei

Zhi Wei is an AI, built on Claude Haiku, a model made by Anthropic. When you chat with him, what you type is sent to Anthropic so Claude can write his replies. Anthropic processes it for us under its commercial terms, which do not allow it to train its models on it. Before anything is sent or kept, we take out email addresses, phone numbers, NRIC numbers and links. From your account and profile we never send your name, email, CV, school or employer; what Anthropic sees is what you type, so leave out anything you would rather not share.

If you talk to him with the mic instead of typing, your browser turns what you say into text before anything reaches us. It does that with its maker's speech service, Google's in Chrome or Apple's in Safari, so the recording goes to them. We only ever get the text, the same as if you had typed it.

We keep the chat and the answers he picks up from it: where you are, what you do or study, what you are looking for, what you want to learn, what you could teach, who you would like to meet, and your kopitiam order, plus which part of Singapore suits you if you mention it. We use them to suggest roles and to introduce you to people, and we read chats to check how he answers and to make him better. Once you have told him who you would like to meet while signed in, the answers your profile asks about go into it, filling only what is still empty there, and you can change them on your profile. The rest stay on his card, which your profile shows, and change when you tell him. His card about you is seen only by people you give its link to, and where you share that link, its preview shows what the card says.

If somebody opens your card's link and then talks to Zhi Wei, we note that they came through your card. We count them on your card (a number, never who), and we may suggest introducing the two of you, which works like any other introduction: nothing happens unless you both say yes.

To keep chatting after a few messages, you sign up with your first name and email, so he can reach you and connect you to people and opportunities in Singapore. Those go into your account, never into the chat. If you then stop before your card is ready, we send you one reminder email, once.

If something you write suggests you may be in danger, he answers with helpline numbers, and we are told the number of the chat so a person can check you got them.

A chat you never sign in to is deleted after 30 days. In a chat linked to your account, the messages are deleted 90 days after the last one, and everything goes when your account is deleted.

Campus Community

Campus Community is a Telegram group for each university in Singapore, open only to students of that university, with a small app inside Telegram that checks them. We run it, and this page covers it. It is not run by or affiliated with any university.

When you open the app, Telegram tells us your Telegram account number, your first name, your username if you have one, and your language. We keep the first three.

To check you are a student, you type your school email address and we email it a 6-digit code. We do not keep the address. We keep a scrambled fingerprint of it, made with a secret key, which lets us make sure one address is used by only one Telegram account and keep a removed member from coming back, plus the part after the @, which says which school. We never email you again, and the code email has no links.

We also note when you asked to join a group, which invite link you used, when you were let in, and, if a group admin removed you, who did and why. Group messages stay on Telegram. Our bot can see them, because it helps run the groups, but we do not store them. The students who look after each group never see your school email.

If you reply /report to a message, the bot forwards that message to the group's admins in a private Telegram group, with any reason you typed, but not your name. We note which message it was, who wrote it, who reported it and what the admins did. We do not keep what the message said. If a message of yours is reported, the same goes for you.

The bot counts the messages in each group per day, and notes the last day you wrote there, so we can see how many members chat each week. That is one date, replaced whenever you write on a new day, and never what you wrote. When you open a job from the app, we count it for your campus, not for you.

If you use Meet, we keep the card you make: your faculty, your year, your gender, who you would like to meet, what you are looking for and your interests. Other students see your faculty, year, interests and what you are looking for, never your gender, and your first name only once you have both said yes. We keep who we suggested to whom and what each of you answered, so the same two people are never suggested twice, and your Meet chats, with how long each reply took, which helps us suggest people who reply. Nobody reads a chat unless one of you reports it. A report sends a copy of the chat, and any note, to us alone, never to the students who look after the groups. If you let the bot message you, it tells you when someone says yes or writes to you.

Codes are deleted as soon as they are used, or a day after they expire. If you start the check and do not finish it, everything about you goes after 30 days. Your check stays while you are a member, and so do your Meet card and who you were suggested. Meet messages are deleted 90 days after a chat's last one, and the copy sent with a Meet report 6 months after we have dealt with it. If you leave, your messages go, and the other person keeps their own. A report is deleted 180 days after the admins have dealt with it. If you are removed for breaking the rules, the ban and the fingerprint stay, so the same address cannot be used to come back. To have everything else deleted, tap Leave and delete my data under Me in the app, which also takes you out of the group, or write to [email protected].

How long

Your CV and profile are kept while your account is open, so you can apply and companies can find you. A CV is deleted as soon as you delete it, along with anything read from it. Unverified accounts go after 7 days. Ask us to delete your account, at [email protected], and everything personal goes within 30 days; payment records are kept five years because IRAS requires it.

Where

Our hosting is in Singapore. We use Stripe for payments, Mailgun for email, Google for sign-in and to count visits, Microsoft to see how pages get used, Telegram for the channel and Campus Community and Anthropic to read CVs you ask us to read and to write Zhi Wei's replies, so some data is processed outside Singapore under their own protections.

Counting visits is Google Analytics. It sets cookies so we can see how many people come and which pages they use. It never sees your CV or your profile, and the private part of any link we email you is removed before anything is sent. Cloudflare, which carries all traffic to the site, also counts page loads and how fast they are, without cookies.

Seeing how pages get used is Microsoft Clarity. It shows us where people click, how far they scroll and where they get stuck, so we can fix what is confusing, and it sets cookies to link the pages of one visit. It never sees what you type, or what you and Zhi Wei say to each other. On your profile, your dashboard, your company page and the applicants pages it sees none of the words either, and it is never on for a link we email you, so it never sees your CV, your name or your contact details.

Keeping it safe

CVs are never at a public address: they are stored under random names, and every link to one is signed and stops working soon after. Everything travels encrypted. If a data breach ever puts your personal data at risk, we will tell you, and the Personal Data Protection Commission, as the law requires.

Your rights

Ask us for a copy of your data, a correction, or deletion at any time. Write to our Data Protection Officer at [email protected].