Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to the public marketing website at www.donthiredevs.com(the "Site") operated by Salt Technologies and its DontHireDevsbrand ("Salt," "we," "us," or "our"). It does not apply to third-party sites we link to, or to engineering delivery under a separate contract (that relationship is governed by your agreement with us and any statements there).

The Site is intended for company representatives evaluating dedicated offshore engineering capacity. If you use the Site on behalf of an organization, you represent that you are authorized to share business contact information with us.

DontHireDevsis a marketing brand for Salt Technologies, an engineering company based in Pune, Maharashtra, India. For privacy requests, contact us at the email in the "Your rights and contact" section below. We will respond within a reasonable time and in line with applicable law.

We collect information in three broad ways: (1) what you submit in forms, (2) what you provide for the newsletter, and (3) technical data generated when you load pages or hit our APIs.

Pilot and lead forms. When you request a pilot or submit a general inquiry through our Site, we collect the fields you fill in. That typically includes your name, work email, company name, company website, role or topic of interest, seniority, technology stack (where applicable), and any optional message or notes. Exact fields may change as we update forms; we only collect what the form asks for at submission time.

Newsletter. If you subscribe in the footer, we collect the email address you enter. That signup is separate from pilot inquiries unless you use the same address in both places.

Technical and usage data. Our hosting provider, application logs, and security tooling may process data such as IP address, approximate location derived from IP, browser type and version, device type, referring URL, pages viewed, timestamps, and request metadata. We use this to operate, secure, and debug the Site and to detect abuse or fraud.

Analytics data. Where enabled, we use Google Analytics 4 to understand how the Site is used. It processes data such as IP address, approximate location derived from it, device and browser characteristics, referring URL, the pages you view, and a small number of named events — for example that someone opened a comparison page, used the rate calculator, or submitted a form. Google sets its own cookies or identifiers for this. We do not send your name, email address, company, or any form contents to analytics, and we do not use it to build a profile of you as an individual. Google acts as our service provider for this data, under the Google Privacy Policy. You can block it with Google's opt-out browser add-on or standard browser controls.

Campaign and referral data. If you reach the Site from one of our emails, an ad, or a link someone shared with you, the URL may carry campaign parameters (for example utm_source or utm_campaign) and a short reference code identifying the outreach the link came from. We store these in your browser's local storage for up to 90 days and attach them to any form you submit during that time, so we can tell which campaign or conversation a request came from. The reference code is a random string and does not contain your name or email address. If you submit a form, we can match that code back to the contact record it was issued to. Clearing your browser's site data removes it.

Advertising data. We advertise on LinkedIn. Where enabled, the LinkedIn Insight Tag loads on Site pages and reports to LinkedIn that a browser viewed a given page, along with data such as IP address, timestamp, browser and device characteristics, and referring URL. LinkedIn may match that browser to a LinkedIn member and set or read its own cookies. We use this to retarget Site visitors with our ads and to measure which campaigns produce inquiries. LinkedIn reports audiences to us only in aggregate — we do not receive a list of who visited.

The tag also reports conversions to LinkedIn: a signal that this browser completed one of a short list of actions we count — submitting the pilot form, submitting the contact form, using the rate calculator, or viewing the rates page. A conversion carries only the fact that the action happened. The contents of what you submitted or calculated are never sent to LinkedIn. Full detail, including how to opt out, is in our Cookie Policy.

We honour Global Privacy Control.If your browser sends a GPC signal, we do not load the LinkedIn Insight Tag on your visit — no request is made to LinkedIn, and no conversion can be reported either, because the code that would report one is never loaded. Analytics still runs on a GPC visit: it is site measurement rather than cross-context behavioural advertising, so it is not "sharing" under California law. Opt out of analytics separately using the Google controls linked above.

We do not ask for government IDs, payment card numbers, or health data on this Site. Do not submit sensitive personal information in free-text fields unless we explicitly ask for it.

• Respond to you: route pilot and contact submissions to our team, follow up by email or phone, and prepare proposals or scoping conversations.
• Operate the Site: deliver pages, process API requests, fix errors, and measure reliability.
• Analytics:measure which pages and content are useful, in aggregate, so we can improve them. See "Analytics data" above.
• Send email: internal notifications to our team (for example via Resend), and transactional or relationship email to you where appropriate.
• Newsletter: send the emails you signed up for. You can unsubscribe at any time.
• Security and compliance: protect against malicious activity, enforce our terms, and meet legal, tax, or regulatory obligations where they apply.
• Measure our outreach: understand which campaign, email, or shared link a request came from, so we can follow up with relevant context and stop sending outreach that is not useful.
• Advertising: show our ads on LinkedIn to people who have visited the Site, and measure which campaigns lead to inquiries. See "Advertising data" above.
• Business operations: limited internal reporting (for example volume of inquiries by region) in aggregated or pseudonymous form where possible.

We do not sell your personal information — no data broker exchanges for money. We do, however, "share" personal information as California defines that term: running the LinkedIn Insight Tag for retargeting is cross-context behavioural advertising. How to opt out is set out under "California residents" below. We do not use automated decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects solely based on profiling for Site visitors.

Where the GDPR or UK GDPR applies, we rely on one or more of the following:

• Legitimate interests in operating the Site, responding to business inquiries, securing our systems, and growing our B2B practice, balanced against your rights.
• Contract or pre-contract steps when processing is necessary to respond to a request that may lead to an engagement.
• Consent where we ask for it (for example marketing newsletter where consent is the appropriate basis in your country).
• Legal obligation where we must retain or disclose records.

Advertising and analytics cookies are a separate case: where consent is the required basis in your jurisdiction, we rely on consent and do not treat legitimate interests as sufficient. This Site is aimed at businesses in the United States and we do not target advertising at the EEA or UK.

We share personal information only with service providers and parties who need it to help us run the Site or our business, under appropriate confidentiality and data processing terms where required:

• Supabase (database): may store lead records in PostgreSQL when our environment is configured.
• Resend (email): may send notification emails to our team and may address email to you when we configure it.
• Slack or similar: if we configure a webhook, a short summary of a new lead may post to an internal channel for triage.
• Hosting and infrastructure: for example Vercel or comparable providers that host the Site and edge logs.
• CRM or sales tooling: we may sync limited business contact data into internal systems to track conversations. If we do, that processing is covered by our agreements with those vendors.
• Google (analytics): where Google Analytics 4 is enabled, Google receives the usage data described under "Analytics data" above and processes it as our service provider under the Google Privacy Policy. We do not send it your name, email address, or form contents.
• LinkedIn (advertising): where the Insight Tag is enabled, LinkedIn receives the technical and page-visit data described under "Advertising data" above. LinkedIn acts as an independent controller for that data under the LinkedIn Privacy Policy, not as our processor. We do not send it your name, email address, or form contents.

We may disclose information if required by law, court order, or governmental request, or to establish or defend legal claims. If Salt is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, information may transfer as part of that transaction subject to standard confidentiality protections.

Salt Technologies is located in India. Subprocessors such as email and database providers may process data in the United States, the European Union, India, or other regions where they operate data centers.

When we transfer personal data from the EEA, UK, or Switzerland to countries not deemed adequate by the relevant authority, we use appropriate safeguards such as the EU Commission-approved Standard Contractual Clauses (and the UK Addendum where applicable), or another lawful transfer mechanism.

We retain lead and newsletter data for as long as needed to evaluate opportunities, communicate with you, maintain our relationship, and meet bookkeeping, tax, or legal retention requirements. Operational logs are typically kept for a shorter rolling window unless needed for a security investigation.

Campaign and referral data expires from your browser's local storage after 90 days. If it was attached to a form you submitted, it is kept with that lead record for as long as the record itself.

Analytics data is retained by Google on the schedule configured in our Google Analytics property, and by Google's own policy for anything it holds beyond that. We do not keep a separate copy of raw analytics data.

Advertising data collected by the LinkedIn Insight Tag is retained by LinkedIn under its own policy and schedule, which we do not control. Retargeting audiences we build in LinkedIn expire on the window we set — typically 14 to 90 days from a visit.

When retention periods end, we delete or anonymize data where feasible, subject to backup systems that may retain copies for a limited additional period before overwriting.

We use administrative, technical, and organizational measures appropriate to the nature of the data we handle on the Site (primarily business contact data). No method of transmission over the Internet is completely secure; we encourage you to use a corporate email and avoid sharing credentials in web forms.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to certain processing, to withdraw consent where processing is consent-based, and to receive a portable copy of data you provided (where technically feasible). You may also lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority.

California residents (CPRA summary): California law grants you rights to know, delete, and correct personal information, and to opt out of "sale" or "sharing" as those terms are defined in California. We do not sell personal information. We do "share" it for cross-context behavioural advertising through the LinkedIn Insight Tag. We do not knowingly sell or share personal information of minors under 16.

To opt out of sharing, use any of these — all are effective, and the first is automatic:

• Send a Global Privacy Control signal from your browser or extension. We detect it and do not load the LinkedIn Insight Tag at all.
• Adjust your LinkedIn advertising settings, which work whether or not you hold a LinkedIn account.
• Email us at pilots@donthiredevs.com with "Do not share my personal information" in the subject line.

For other California rights, email pilots@donthiredevs.com with a clear description of the right you wish to exercise. We will verify commercial inquiries to a reasonable degree; we may need additional information to process certain requests.

All privacy requests: email pilots@donthiredevs.com with "Privacy request" or your jurisdiction in the subject line. We may need to confirm you control the email address in question before we act on deletion or access requests.

Newsletter: use the unsubscribe link in any marketing email, or email the same address and ask to be removed from the list.

The Site is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16. If you believe we have collected information from a child, contact us and we will delete it promptly where required by law.

The Site may link to LinkedIn, calendars, or partner pages. Those services have their own privacy notices. We are not responsible for their practices.

We may update this policy to reflect changes in our Site, vendors, or legal requirements. The "Last updated" date at the top shows when it was last revised. Continued use of the Site after we post changes constitutes your acknowledgment of the updated policy, where permitted by law.

See also our Cookie Policy and Terms of Service.