Is Personio safe with your data?
Personio
Personio SE
Partial disclosure · medium confidence
Personio earns a C (58/100) because it discloses its data practices only in part.
#111
of 177 apps ranked
58
score · HR & recruiting avg 65
-7
vs category average
Personio's notice is a GDPR-based privacy policy for its website and marketing. It grants data subject rights, names international transfer safeguards including Standard Contractual Clauses and the EU-U.S., UK and Swiss Data Privacy Frameworks with a U.S. Department of Commerce certification, commits not to sell or share data without consent, and gives numeric retention periods. Its main limitation is scope: the policy expressly excludes the Personio HR product and subscriber data, and says nothing about AI training, output ownership or named security controls. The notice also states that Personio does not profile users or make automated decisions using artificial intelligence, so no inputs are described as feeding model training.
What Personio's privacy policy says about your data
States it does not use AI or automated decisions
The notice says "We do not profile you or make decisions based on automated processes such as artificial intelligence," so no user inputs are described as training any model.
Named international transfer safeguards
Transfers rely on adequacy decisions, "Standard Contractual Clauses" and the EU-U.S., UK and Swiss Data Privacy Frameworks, with Personio Corp. certified to the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Full data subject rights with a route to exercise them
Access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability ("obtain a copy of the data"), objection and consent withdrawal are all granted, exercised through a named form and the appointed external DPO Bitkom Servicegesellschaft mbH.
Does not sell, with numeric retention periods
Personio states it "will not disclose your personal data to third parties for purposes other than those specified... without your explicit consent" and gives concrete retention such as "up to 30 days" for web data and "2 years" for marketing data.
What the policy is silent or vague on
- Not stated: a way to opt out of training
- Not stated: whether training use differs by plan
- Not stated: your ownership of generated outputs
- Not stated: breach notification
Personio privacy rating
Details
- Category
- HR & recruiting
- Modalities
- text
- Processes biometrics
- No
- Policy last updated
- 2025-10-01
- Region scored
- Global / US-default
- Assessed
- 2026-06-20
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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.