Is 15Five safe with your data?
15Five
15Five, Inc.
Weak disclosure · high confidence
15Five earns a D (43/100) because it leaves much about its data practices unstated.
Dealbreaker flag
- D1.4: you grant Us a limited, royalty-free, worldwide, transferable, sublicensable right and license to use, host, license, store, reproduce, display, transmit, adapt, publish, modify, copy and distribute such User Content and any derivative works
#131
of 216 apps ranked
43
score · HR & recruiting avg 49
-6
vs category average
15Five enumerates the employee data it collects in detail and promises never to sell it, but it takes a sublicensable licence over everything workers post, routes most privacy requests back to the employer, and names no retention period or specific security control.
What 15Five's privacy policy and terms of service say about your data
Your words, their licence
Posting anything in 15Five grants the company a worldwide, transferable, sublicensable licence to copy, modify, publish and distribute it, plus any derivative works, for as long as your employer keeps the subscription.
Ask your boss, not 15Five
Employees are told to direct access, modification and deletion requests to the employer that licensed the service, and 15Five warns such requests may be limited by the customer's own restrictions or refused in certain cases.
No clock on retention
Data is kept "for as long as is necessary" with no stated period, and the retention schedule exists only on request by email; after a customer account is deleted, 15Five says it cannot assure that any content can be retrieved.
Named audit, unnamed safeguards
The policy cites SOC 2 Type II certification and a Data Privacy Officer, yet describes its protections only as "reasonable and appropriate" with no encryption or access control named, and promises breach notice only "where appropriate" with no deadline.
What the policy is silent or vague on
- Not stated: keeping user inputs out of model training
- Not stated: a way to opt out of training
- Not stated: whether training use differs by plan
- Not stated: your ownership of generated outputs
15Five privacy rating
Details
- Category
- HR & recruiting
- Modalities
- text
- Processes biometrics
- No
- Policy last updated
- 2026-02-19
- Region scored
- Global / US-default
- Last assessed
- 2026-10-13
Documents examined
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Each grade reflects our analysis of what an app states in its public privacy policy and terms as of the assessment date. It measures the transparency of those documents, not the company's actual data practices, security, or compliance. Grades are our opinion, offered for general information. Full disclaimer.