1. Why this notice exists
AI now runs much of the first round of hiring on Scrini: sourcing, outreach, phone screens, video interviews, assessments and ranking. Candidates and customers deserve to know how that works. This notice describes our AI features, the safeguards around them and the laws we design for. It supports our customers, who as employers are responsible for how they use AI in their hiring, and it is written for candidates too.
2. Our principles
Be open: candidates are told when an AI agent is running a screen or assessment. Be consistent: everyone for a role gets the same core questions and is scored on the same scorecard. Show the evidence: every score links to transcripts, answers or task results. Keep people in charge: recruiters and hiring managers review, override and decide. Protect data: candidate data is used only for that employer's hiring and never to train shared AI models.
4. What the AI considers
Scores are based on the role's requirements as the employer defines them and on what the candidate says, writes or builds during the process: skills, experience, answers and task results. Scoring criteria must be job-related. Employers must not use protected characteristics such as race, ethnicity, sex, age, disability, religion or sexual orientation as scoring criteria, or proxies for them such as zip codes or photos, as our Acceptable Use Policy explains.
5. Voice and video interviews
In AI phone screens and video interviews, the candidate's answers are transcribed and scored against the role's rubric, and the transcript and recording are kept as evidence for each score. Liveness Verify checks that a real person is present and flags possible proxies or deepfakes for the employer's team to review. Where a law requires notice, an explanation or consent before an AI-analyzed video interview or an identity check, such as the Illinois Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act or the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, the employer is responsible for meeting it, and Scrini provides the information about how the AI works that the employer needs.
6. People stay in charge
AI agents recommend and people decide. Scrini does not make final hiring decisions; employers' recruiters review results and decide. The employer's team can review the evidence behind every score and override it, and every override records who made it and when. Employers can set score thresholds that help recruiters prioritize who to review first. Candidates can ask the employer for a human review of any AI-assisted result.
7. Explanations
Every score comes with the evidence behind it: the transcript, the answers, the task results and the skills matched or missing. Candidates can ask the employer to explain how an AI-assisted result was reached and which main factors it reflected.
8. Fairness testing and bias audits
Structured questions, one scorecard per role, recorded evidence and human review are designed to make screening more consistent than ad hoc calls. We evaluate our models for adverse impact and support customers who must commission independent bias audits (for example under New York City Local Law 144). Where a law requires a bias audit, the employer is responsible for commissioning it and publishing the results.
9. Models and training data
Customer candidate data is used only for that customer's hiring and is never used to train or fine-tune shared AI models. Some features use AI models from third-party providers, such as ElevenLabs for AI voice when enabled. Providers that process customer data act as our subprocessors under data processing terms, as described on our Subprocessors page.
10. Candidate choices
Candidates are told when an AI is used and can ask the employer for an accommodation, an alternative assessment or a conversation with a person instead of an AI agent, an explanation of a result, a human review of a result, correction of inaccurate data and deletion of their data where the law allows. Candidates can stop outreach at any time.
12. Questions and changes
Candidates should contact the employer first. Anyone can email our privacy team at hello@scrini.ai (subject: Privacy) or support@scrini.ai with questions about our AI. We update this notice when our AI features or the law change, and the date at the top shows the latest version.