HardhatBound

Privacy Policy

Effective: July 26, 2026

HardhatBound helps you get into the skilled trades. To do that, we collect some information about you. This page explains exactly what we collect, why, where it lives, who can see it, and how to get it deleted. No legal maze — if anything here is unclear, email us at hello@hardhatbound.com and a human will answer.

Who we are

HardhatBound (hardhatbound.com) is operated from the United Kingdom and built for users in the United States. For anything privacy-related, contact hello@hardhatbound.com.

What we collect, and why

We only collect things we actually use. Here is the complete list.

Your account. Your email address, your date of birth, and the date you accepted these terms. We use your email to sign you in (we don't use passwords) and to contact you about your account. We use your date of birth to make sure you're old enough to use HardhatBound (see "If you're under 18" below).

Your quiz answers. Your state, age band, where you are right now (in school, graduated, working, switching careers), whether you already have an EPA 608 certification, when you want to start, how you'd prefer to train, your budget, and whether you have a driver's license. We use these to build your personal roadmap — every answer changes what you see.

Your study activity. Every practice question you answer, whether you got it right, and when. This powers your streaks, accuracy stats, progress bars, and review schedule. It's also what makes your profile meaningful to employers — months of real study activity says more than any resume.

Your profile (only if you fill it in). Full name, contact details, zip code and how far you'll travel, whether you're eligible to work in the US, driver's license, reliable transport, when you can start, certifications you hold or expect, education stage, whether you'd relocate, and your background-check consent choice. Every field exists because employers ask about it. This information is only shared if you turn on "Get discovered" (see below).

How you found us. If you arrived from one of our videos, the link tells us which one. We store that so we know which content actually helps people, not just which gets views.

Analytics. We use PostHog in cookieless mode to understand how the app is used (which screens people visit, where they get stuck). No tracking cookies, no advertising networks, no following you around the internet. We record specific actions too — starting or finishing the quiz, signing up, starting or finishing a study session, completing your profile, and checking off roadmap steps — so we can tell which parts of the app actually help. Each of these carries the source tag for the video or link that brought you here, if any.

To count your visit correctly instead of splitting it into two, we store a random ID in your browser's local storage — not a cookie. It only exists to recognize the same browser across page loads, so signing up right after taking the quiz still counts as one visit. It isn't linked to your name, and it's never sold or shared. Clearing your browser's data removes it.

What we never do

We don't sell your information to advertisers or data brokers. We don't show ads. We don't track you across other websites. We don't collect anything not listed on this page.

"Get discovered" — sharing with employers

This is off by default. If you turn it on, we may share your profile and study record with employers looking to hire — that's the entire point of the feature. You can turn it off at any time, and sharing stops. If you never turn it on, no employer ever sees you.

If you're under 18

Under 13: you can't create a HardhatBound account. If we discover an account belongs to someone under 13, we delete it completely — including the sign-in record.

13 to 17: you're welcome here. But before your profile can be shared with employers, we require a parent or guardian's email address and their consent. Until that consent exists, "Get discovered" stays off.

Where your information lives

Your data is stored with these providers, who process it on our behalf:

We don't hand your data to anyone else except as described in "Get discovered."

Browser storage

We use your browser's local storage for essentials only: keeping you signed in, remembering which video brought you here, and briefly holding your signup details while you log in. These aren't advertising cookies.

Your rights

You can ask to see the information we hold about you, correct it, or have it deleted. Email hello@hardhatbound.com from your account email. Deleting your account removes your profile, your quiz answers, and your study history.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top. Big changes get flagged when you next sign in.

Contact

hello@hardhatbound.com — a real inbox, read by a real person.