Privacy statement

What the pilot version of 6164 AI Talent collects, why, who can see it and what you can ask us to do. We follow the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020.

Pilot version, 10 November 2026

What we collect

We collect only what you give us when you use the pilot:

  • Your profile: username, email, phone (optional), your role, company, city and country; your account type (individual, or company or team) and team size (optional); and the date you agreed that deals with people you meet on 6164 go through 6164.
  • Briefs you post, including the business name and contact email you give with them, and the type of brief you pick (up to 2).
  • Project submissions you send in to be shown on the site.
  • Discussion messages you post in a brief’s thread.
  • Your talent pool profile, if you join the AI talent pool: a public part (display name or initials, headline role, up to 3 AI talent categories, the tools you know, years working with AI, the work you want, availability, city and country, work style, a short summary and a link to your work, plus your region) and a private part (full name, email, phone, CV or LinkedIn link, expected pay or rate), plus the date you gave consent.
  • Enquiries you send to the 6164 team through the Contact page.
  • Reports you send to 6164 (which brief or project, the reason and any details you write).
  • Sign-in: in this prototype, sign-in uses the account you are already signed in with on the service that hosts the prototype; Google and email sign-in go live with the production site. The email and password you type on the sign-in page are checked in your browser only; they are not saved or sent.
  • Projects you start or accept, the messages and document links you send in a project room, the reviews and replies you write, and the call times you suggest.

Why we collect it

To run the pilot: to show your work, to match briefs with creators, to reply to your enquiries, to contact you about something you sent us, and to keep the site working and safe. If you join the talent pool, we also use your details to introduce you to businesses that are hiring or contracting, and to contact you about suitable work.

Who can see what

  • Public showcase: the project details you submit for showing (project name, description, category, demo link, what you do and your city) can be seen by anyone who visits. If you chose “New Zealand and Australia” for where your work is shown, it is not shown to signed-in visitors who entered another country.
  • Briefs (what you need, category, budget, timeline and who can see it): visible to signed-in visitors, without your contact details. If you chose “New Zealand and Australia”, signed-in visitors who entered another country do not see it. If you chose “Worldwide”, signed-in visitors anywhere can see it.
  • Your business name: visible only to you and the 6164 team. Everyone who can see the briefs board sees it only if you tick “Show my business name on the briefs board”.
  • Discussion messages: visible to signed-in users who open that brief. Please keep emails and phone numbers out of them.
  • Talent pool profile: the public part can be seen by visitors to the talent pool page. Your full name, email, phone, CV or LinkedIn link and expected pay are visible only to you and the 6164 team. Businesses never see them.
  • Contact details (email and phone): visible only to you and the 6164 team. The exceptions: on a brief or in a project, if you choose to share your phone number for a call and the other side does the same, 6164 passes your number to that one person; in the talent pool, your phone number is passed to the business only after it has paid 6164’s introduction fee (and its number to you at the same time). Your email, CV, pay expectations and full name always stay with 6164.
  • Your country: visible only to you and the 6164 team.
  • Account type: if you choose “Company or team”, a “Company / team” label shows on your work, your replies on briefs and your projects (team size is not shown publicly).
  • Type of brief: shown with the brief on the briefs board.
  • Reports: visible only to you and the 6164 team; the person reported does not see them.
  • Enquiries: visible only to you and the 6164 team.
  • Projects, project rooms and reviews: see Projects, project rooms and reviews below.

In the pilot, “who can see it” is applied by the site using the country each person entered when they signed up. We do not verify country yet.

The AI talent pool

This section covers the AI talent pool only. Joining is your choice. You give consent by ticking the box on the form: you agree that 6164 may show your public profile (not your contact details) to businesses, contact you about suitable work, and move your profile to a 6164-owned talent site in future. We record the date you gave consent. Joining and being introduced is always free for talent. 6164 is paid only by the business.

  • What businesses can see: only your public profile, and only while it is “Listed”. With “Limited” your profile is not shown in Browse, though 6164 may still suggest you to businesses; with “Hidden” nobody sees it and 6164 won’t suggest you. A pay band is shown only if you tick “Show this pay band on my card”.
  • What only the 6164 team sees: your full name, email, phone, CV or LinkedIn link, expected pay, your visibility setting, and your whole profile when it is Limited or Hidden.
  • Introductions: when a business asks to be introduced to you, the 6164 team asks you first. 6164 sets up any call. Your phone number is passed to the business only after the business has paid 6164’s introduction fee, and the business’s number is passed to you at the same time. Your email, full name, CV and pay expectations stay with 6164. The business’s request (its name, contact details and brief) and the status of the introduction are kept privately by the 6164 team; you and the business each see the status of your own introduction.
  • Fee confirmation: if a business tells 6164 on its introduction that it has paid (optional), we keep that note, its date and any invoice or bank reference it adds (never card or account numbers) in the business’s private space, which only the business and the 6164 team can read; when 6164 confirms the payment, the date and the introduction reference (INT-…) are kept with the introduction’s status, visible to you, the other side and the 6164 team, and phone numbers are released only after that.
  • “Verified by 6164” marks: set only by the 6164 team, after a check it actually did (ID checked, Work sample reviewed, Interviewed by 6164). We do not store copies of ID documents in the pilot.
  • Updating your profile: change the form on the talent pool page and save it again. The new details replace the old ones. “Confirm I’m still available” updates the date shown on your card.
  • Removing your profile: use “Remove my profile” on the talent pool page. It deletes your public profile and your private pool details. You can also ask us through the Contact page.
  • How long we keep it: until you remove it, or until 24 months pass without any activity on your profile; then we delete it.
  • If the pool moves: the talent pool may move to a separate website run by 6164 or a company 6164 owns or controls. Your profile and settings would move with it under the same privacy terms, and we would tell you first so you can delete it.
  • Shortlists: a business’s “Save” list is kept only in its own browser. It is not sent to 6164.

When you join, your email (and phone, if you give one) is also saved to your private 6164 profile, so the team keeps your contact details in one place. Removing your pool profile does not delete your 6164 profile; ask us through the Contact page if you want that removed too.

Projects, project rooms and reviews

When a business starts a project with a creator who replied to its brief, the site keeps a project record, a project room and, once delivery is confirmed, reviews. This is what each one stores and who can see it.

  • Project record: the brief it came from and its title, both sides’ site ids, the creator’s display name, the business label shown on the brief (the business name only if the business chose to show it), how they’ll work and pay, and the date of each step (invited, accepted or declined, delivered, delivery confirmed). Each side’s steps are kept in that person’s own record, which only they can change. In the pilot, signed-in members of the site can read these records, although the site shows each person only their own projects. Since 11 November 2026 the record also holds the price each side proposed or confirmed, a short note on what it covers, and any extra charges (what is added, the amount, extra working days and whether it was accepted, declined or withdrawn), each in the proposing or answering side’s own record. So, in the pilot, signed-in members could read these amounts too. No contact details are stored in them: the site refuses emails and phone numbers in these notes.
  • Work order: on a 6164-protected project, when 6164 confirms the payment, 6164 records the work order number (WO-…, plus one line per stage for payment in stages), the date and who at 6164 confirmed it in its own records, which only the 6164 team can read, and copies the number and date into both sides’ private spaces, where only the two of you and the 6164 team can read them. Once 6164 has confirmed that the project really happened, the number is also stored as an internal reference in 6164’s public record of that project; it is not shown on any card or page.
  • Project room: the messages and document links you send are kept in your private space, which only you and the 6164 team can read. The 6164 team passes each message on to the other side’s private space. So a room can be read only by the two of you and the 6164 team, who may read it to help with completion and disputes. Uploading documents is not available in the pilot: a document link points to wherever you keep the document. Photos can be added (see “Photos in chats” below). Please don’t share passwords, bank details or other people’s personal information in a room.
  • Reviews: your rating (1 to 5 stars), your sentence and any reply are kept in your private space. Until 6164 has confirmed that the project really happened, only you and the 6164 team can see them. After that, 6164 copies the review to the project’s public record, where anyone visiting the site can see it, marked “Verified by 6164”, together with the project’s title and both sides’ site ids and display names. A review that 6164 hides is taken out of the public record; both sides see the reason.
  • Photos in chats: you can add up to 4 photos to a message in a project room or in a brief’s discussion. Before upload, the site redraws each JPEG or WebP photo (and any large PNG) at most 2000 pixels wide and saves it again, which removes the photo’s hidden metadata, such as the GPS location a phone camera records; small PNGs and GIFs are kept as they are. The message stores only a reference to the photo. A photo in a brief’s discussion can be seen by everyone who can read that brief; a photo in a project room by the people in that room. In this prototype, photos can only be shown to signed-in members of the 6164 workspace, and the production site will store photos privately. Don’t include phone numbers, emails or other contact details in photos. Photos are kept for as long as the messages they belong to.
  • Ratings on cards: the number of completed projects and the average rating shown on creator cards, talent pool cards and briefs are worked out only from projects 6164 has confirmed.
  • Call requests and phone numbers: if you ask for a short call first, the times and time zone you give are kept with your introduction request (privately, visible only to you and the 6164 team) or posted in the brief’s discussion (if you suggest a call there). Phone numbers are never posted in a discussion or on any public page. On a brief or in a project, if you tick “Share my phone number”, your number and your choice are kept in your private space. Only when the other side has done the same does the 6164 team copy each number into the other person’s private space, where only they can read it. In the talent pool there is no phone exchange before the fee: 6164 sets up the call, and the numbers (the talent’s from their private pool details, the business’s from its request) are passed on only after the business has paid 6164’s introduction fee. You can withdraw before that happens. Once passed on, a number cannot be taken back from the other person.
  • How long we keep it: for the length of the pilot. You can ask us through the Contact page to delete your project records, room messages or reviews; a deleted review is also taken out of the public record.

During the launch trial: if you tell 6164 that you have paid or been paid directly, the project record keeps the date you told us (no bank details or other payment information).

Project conversations and dispute review

6164 may read this project’s conversation to resolve a dispute. This applies to brief discussions, joint brief and group pre-order discussions, and project rooms, and the same notice is shown next to each chat box. In a joint brief, the names of the businesses that joined are seen only by the lead business and 6164; in a group pre-order, only by 6164. Other visitors see only the number of businesses. Asking prices that creators post on a joint brief are public, with the time of each change.

AI features

Three features use an AI service: “Write it with AI” and “Let AI ask you” on the Post a brief form, and the “Ask 6164 AI” assistant. When you use them, what you type (and, on the brief form, the choices you made) is sent to an AI service to write a draft or an answer. It is not used to make decisions about you. Please don’t include private details such as names, phone numbers, passwords or payment details. In the pilot, 6164 does not store assistant conversations: a conversation stays only in your browser tab and is cleared when you close the tab. A brief draft is kept only if you post the brief. “Let AI ask you” works the same way: the questions and your answers stay only in your browser tab (kept for the tab’s session so a reload doesn’t lose them) and are never sent to the 6164 database. Only the brief you finally post is stored, with a note that you used the questions.

Where it is kept

During the pilot, your information is stored with our pilot hosting provider. The site doesn’t take card payments: payment for a protected project is made to an independent third-party payment provider, which handles your payment details.

Seeing, correcting or deleting your information

You can ask to see the information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Send the request through the Contact page. We will reply within 20 working days, as the Privacy Act requires.

If you are not happy with how we handle your information, you can contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.

What we don’t do

  • We don’t sell your information.
  • We don’t put you on marketing lists.

Changes

This statement covers the pilot. A full privacy policy will be published before launch, and we will update this page when anything changes.

6164 AI Talent, Auckland, New Zealand.