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# How-to: Setting a Privacy Policy for Candidates

## Overview

You can display a custom privacy policy to candidates before they start their interview. This lets you inform candidates how their video responses and personal data will be collected, used, and stored, which is especially useful for staying compliant with GDPR and other data protection regulations.

## Steps

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open your account">
    Click on your account name.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Find the Privacy & GDPR section">
    Look for the **Privacy & GDPR** section in the menu.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add your privacy policy">
    Enter the text or link for your privacy policy that you want candidates to see before taking their interview.

    <Frame>
      <img src="https://mintcdn.com/hireflixsl/VDRYCrZwKf8DNtoK/images/hireflix-userguide-privacy-gdpr.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=VDRYCrZwKf8DNtoK&q=85&s=3fc94c7389bff421f99db3bc46a3cd46" alt="Setting a privacy policy in account settings" width="985" height="417" data-path="images/hireflix-userguide-privacy-gdpr.png" />
    </Frame>
  </Step>

  <Step title="Save your changes">
    Don't forget to hit **Save** to apply the changes.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Why this matters

Showing a privacy policy to candidates before they take an interview helps you stay transparent about how their video responses and personal data are processed, which is an important part of GDPR compliance and builds trust with candidates.