Oyster HR

Overview

Oyster HR is a global employment platform that enables companies to hire, pay, and manage full-time employees and contractors in countries where they do not have a local legal entity. The platform handles international employment complexity — local labor law compliance, payroll in local currencies, statutory benefits, tax withholding, and employment contracts — through its network of local employer-of-record (EOR) entities in over 180 countries.

Oyster's primary product is its SaaS HR platform, accessed by HR teams and employees through app.oysterhr.com. Its public-facing web presence is limited to its marketing site at oysterhr.com and occasional career page embed widgets used by partner employers to display open positions. The platform does not deploy behavioral tracking or marketing analytics scripts on third-party websites.

What This Script Does

Oyster HR's third-party website presence is narrow and functional:

Career page widgets: Oyster offers embeddable job listing widgets that employers can place on their own career pages to display open international positions. These widgets load job data from Oyster's API and render a filterable list of available roles. They do not track visitor behavior beyond what is necessary to serve the job listing content.

Application flow: Clicking a job listing in an Oyster-powered career widget typically redirects applicants to Oyster's hosted application forms (on oysterhr.com or a subdomain). The application form collects standard recruiting data: name, contact information, resume, and application responses. This data is processed on Oyster's own infrastructure, not via third-party tracking scripts.

Platform SaaS application: The core Oyster HR functionality — onboarding employees, running payroll, managing benefits, handling equity and expenses — operates entirely within Oyster's authenticated web application. This is not accessible to public website visitors and does not involve scripts on third-party sites.

No behavioral tracking: Oyster does not deploy advertising pixels, retargeting tags, session replay tools, or behavioral analytics on employer websites that embed its career widgets. The integration scope is limited to job listing display and application capture.

Consent & Compliance

Oyster HR's limited web presence simplifies consent considerations:

• GDPR: Career page embed widgets that display job listings do not collect personal data from visitors who merely view the listings. When a visitor submits an application, Oyster processes personal data (name, email, resume) under Article 6(1)(b) — steps prior to entering an employment contract. Employers using Oyster career embeds should reference Oyster as a data processor in their privacy policy.
• ePrivacy Directive: Career listing widgets set minimal or no persistent cookies. No behavioral tracking cookies are deployed by Oyster on third-party sites.
• CCPA/CPRA: Applicant data collected through Oyster's application forms should be disclosed in the employer's privacy policy under the "employment applicants" category. California's CPRA provides specific protections for employee and applicant data.
• Data Processing Agreement: Oyster provides standard DPA terms for employers processing employee data through the platform. Oyster is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework for EU-US personal data transfers.

Should You Block This Without Consent?

Oyster HR's third-party presence is limited to career page embeds that serve a functional recruiting purpose. There is no marketing tracking, behavioral analytics, or persistent identification of anonymous visitors. If Oyster scripts appear on your site, they are supporting a job listings feature that visitors actively choose to engage with. Blocking would prevent candidates from viewing and applying to open positions.

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