For candidates — how Bloom handles your application

Last updated: August 14, 2026

You're probably here because you applied for a job at a company that uses Bloom, or because you received an email from Bloom on an employer's behalf. Here's the plain-language version of what that means for you.

What Bloom is

Bloom is software that employers use to review job applications. Think of it as a very organized assistant for the hiring team: it reads applications, compares them against the requirements the employer wrote for the role, and shows the hiring team a summary with the evidence laid out.

The most important thing

People make the decisions. Bloom doesn't. Bloom never rejects an application, never advances one, and never ranks you out of a process on its own. Its job is to help the humans on the hiring team see your application clearly — every score it produces comes with the evidence behind it, so a person can check it.

What Bloom processes

When you apply, the employer's Bloom account processes: your résumé, your name and contact details, your answers to the application questions, and any links you chose to share. Bloom uses AI (from Anthropic) to compare this against the role's requirements. Your information is never sold, never used to train AI models, and never shared with any company other than the employer you applied to. Your application to one company is invisible to every other company.

If you get an email from Bloom

Occasionally Bloom sends a short email on the employer's behalf asking you to confirm one detail from your application — for example, how many years you've worked with a specific tool. Answering is optional, and not answering is never counted against you. Bloom never sends rejection emails.

Who can apply

Careers pages hosted by Bloom are for applicants aged 16 and over. If you're younger than that, please don't apply through one — and if you believe we hold information about someone under 16, email privacy@bloomhr.ai and we'll delete it.

How long your information is kept

By default, 24 months after the hiring process for the role you applied to has concluded. The employer can set a different period for their organization, anywhere from 12 to 48 months. You can ask for your information sooner — see below.

Your rights

Under Canadian privacy law, you can ask to see the information held about you, correct anything inaccurate, or have it deleted. You can ask the employer you applied to, or email us directly at privacy@bloomhr.ai — we'll respond within 30 days. Because the employer runs the hiring process, some requests may need to be completed together with them.

Two things worth being straight about. First, when we remove your information from the records of what an employer's hiring system sent us, we keep the record itself and take the personal information out of it — those records are what stop a duplicate application being created if that system re-sends the same event. Second, if information is under a legal hold (because it's relevant to litigation, an investigation, or a regulatory obligation), the hold takes precedence over a deletion request for as long as it lasts, and we'll tell you if that's why we can't complete one.

If you believe your information has been handled improperly, you can also contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (priv.gc.ca).

Who we are

Bloom is operated by 18098603 Canada Inc., based in Toronto, Canada. Our primary database is hosted in Canada. Full details are in our Privacy Policy.

Questions? privacy@bloomhr.ai