Privacy Policy

Career Blossom (careerblossom.co.uk) is a small independent UK career exploration website. It helps students explore careers, understand options, and take the Career Test to see which broad career areas may fit their interests.

Career Blossom is operated by Parisan Vazirinejad, trading as Career Blossom. That means Parisan is responsible for deciding how and why personal information is used on the site.

Parisan is the only person with direct administrative access to Career Blossom user data. We do not sell personal information and we do not use it for advertising.

Privacy questions: info@careerblossom.co.uk, or our contact page.

We only collect what we need to run Career Blossom and help you explore careers.

Account information

• First name (and optional last name)
• Email address
• Education level you choose when you sign up
• A securely hashed password (never stored as plain text)
• When your account was created and when you last signed in

Career Test answers

• Your answers to the Career Test
• Which version of the test you took
• When you completed it, and how many times you have taken it

Your results

After you finish the test, we automatically create and store:

• Your interest profile
• Suggested career areas and example roles
• The ranking information used to show your results

Favourites, ratings and feedback

• Careers you save as favourites
• Thumbs-up or thumbs-down ratings on suggestions
• Feedback you send through the site (when logged in)
• Messages you email us directly (these arrive in email and are not automatically stored in the website database)

Usage and technical information

• Simple first-party analytics in our own systems (for example when someone views results or opens a career area)
• Whether you are on desktop, mobile or tablet
• Technical details such as IP address for security and rate-limiting. Career Blossom does not store IP addresses in its own database

We do not ask for your date of birth, home address or payment details to take the Career Test.

We do not use Google Analytics or advertising cookies.

We use your information to:

• Create and manage your account
• Run the Career Test and save your attempts
• Build your interest profile and career area suggestions
• Show your results when you come back
• Save favourites and ratings
• Read feedback and improve Career Blossom
• Send a password-reset email when you ask for one
• Send a verification email when you create an account
• Keep the website working and secure
• Understand how the site is used so we can improve it

Your results are for exploration only. They are not used to decide university places, jobs, funding, credit or any other entitlement.

When you complete the Career Test, we use your answers to work out which broad career areas seem closest to the interests you showed. This happens automatically. Nobody sits and marks your answers by hand.

From your answers, Career Blossom:

• Builds an interest profile
• Suggests career areas that may be worth exploring
• Shows example roles in those areas

These are starting points to explore, not a label of who you are, and not a decision about what you must do next.

The Career Test is not a formal psychometric assessment. It is a practical interest tool for career exploration. For a plain-English overview, see How the Career Test works.

Taking the test before you sign in

You can finish the Career Test before creating an account. If you do, you can see a useful results preview straight away. Your answers are temporarily saved in this browser tab's session storage so you can create an account or log in without retaking the test.

• Closing this tab may clear them — they are not a permanent save until you submit them to an account
• After a successful save to your account, that temporary copy is removed
• Your answers are used to create your interest profile and career-area suggestions. Career Blossom does not sell your personal information

UK privacy law asks us to have a clear reason for using personal information. For Career Blossom, that reason is legitimate interests: running and improving a career exploration website in ways students would reasonably expect, while respecting your privacy.

In practice, that covers:

• Providing the service: accounts, the Career Test, saved results and favourites
• Improving Career Blossom: first-party analytics, feedback and ratings
• Helping you sign back in: password resets when you ask, and email verification when you create an account
• Keeping things safe: security checks and rate-limiting

Your right to object

You can tell us if you do not want us to keep using your information for a particular purpose. Email info@careerblossom.co.uk and explain what you mean. Ordinary language is fine.

We will look at your request carefully. Sometimes we may still need to keep or use information (for example to keep an account secure, or if the law requires it). If the information is essential to providing Career Blossom, like your test answers for your results, objecting may mean we need to close or delete your account instead.

Career Blossom uses cookies that are needed for the site to work, including keeping you signed in. Turning those off may stop login and account features from working.

We do not use Google Analytics or advertising cookies.

Your browser may also store:

• Session storage: temporary Career Test answers before you sign in
• Local storage: progress on some guide tools (checklists or drafts), which stays on your device unless you send something to us separately

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not use it for advertising.

Parisan Vazirinejad is the only person with direct administrative access to Career Blossom user data.

To run the website, Career Blossom uses a small number of necessary service providers, for example hosting, database storage and email delivery for password resets and account verification emails. These companies process information only as needed to provide those technical services. That is not the same as people casually browsing your answers or results.

We may also share information if the law requires it, or to protect users and Career Blossom from serious harm or abuse.

Career Blossom is built for students in the UK, but some of the infrastructure that powers the website may process information outside the UK, for example website hosting, database hosting or email delivery.

Those providers process information under their own privacy and data-protection terms, as part of running their services for Career Blossom.

If you have a question about this, email info@careerblossom.co.uk.

We keep information only for as long as we need it.

• Account information: while your account is active
• Test answers, results, favourites and ratings: normally while your account exists
• Feedback: with your account unless you ask us to delete it
• Password-reset details: about 60 minutes, or until used
• Email-verification details: about 24 hours, or until used or replaced by a newer verification link
• Temporary test answers in your browser: until they are saved to your account, cleared, or the browser session ends
• First-party analytics: for up to 12 months from when an event is recorded, so we can understand how Career Blossom is used across a school year without keeping detailed usage information forever. Analytics linked to your account are also deleted when we complete an account deletion request

There is no in-app “delete my account” button yet. To ask us to delete your account or other personal information, email info@careerblossom.co.uk.

We take practical steps to protect personal information, including:

• Hashing passwords before storing them
• Requiring sign-in to see your results
• Limits on login and password-reset attempts
• Storing password-reset tokens in hashed form
• Storing email-verification tokens in hashed form

No website can promise perfect security. Please use a strong, unique password and keep it private.

Under UK law, you may ask us to:

• See a copy of your personal information
• Correct information that is wrong
• Delete information in some situations
• Object to some uses of your information (see Your right to object)
• Limit some processing
• Receive information you gave us in a portable format, where that applies

Not every right applies in every situation. To make a request, email info@careerblossom.co.uk or use the contact page. Just include enough detail for us to find your account. You do not need formal legal wording.

Career Blossom is for students exploring careers, including teenagers under 18. If that is you, you still have privacy rights, and this page is meant to be readable for you too.

When you take the Career Test, we use your answers to suggest career areas to explore, not to judge you or tell you what you must become. We do not sell your information.

If anything here is unclear, ask a parent, carer or teacher you trust, or email us.

We may update this Privacy Policy when Career Blossom changes or when the law changes. When we do, we will post the new version here and update the date at the top.

For privacy questions or requests:

info@careerblossom.co.uk