How to permanently delete an assessment, what goes with it, and what stays.
You can permanently delete an assessment at any time, for example to apply your own retention period or because a candidate has asked for their data to be removed.
What is deleted
The candidate’s answers, including audio recordings and transcripts
Tick the assessments to remove, then choose Delete selected. You can delete up to 100 at a time.
Confirm.
To delete a single assessment, you can also open it and delete it from its own page.
Through the API
If you order assessments through the API, you can delete them the same way, which lets your own systems apply a retention period without anyone signing in. See “Deleting candidate data” in the API documentation.
Asking us to do it
Email privacy@evalingo.ai with the assessment IDs and we will delete them for you.
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