Recede records the jobs you apply for and tracks whether employers respond. This page explains exactly what it stores, where, and who can see it.
| Data | Where it comes from |
|---|---|
| Email address | Your Google account, or typed at sign-up |
| Name, profile picture | Your Google or LinkedIn account, if you sign in with one |
| Job title, degree, field of study, years of experience, skills, work preference | Entered by you |
| Location (a town, city or country) | Typed by you, suggested from your timezone, or resolved on your device from GPS if you tap "Use my location" |
| CV file | Uploaded by you (optional) |
| Work history, education, certifications, references | Entered by you, or read from a LinkedIn data export you choose (optional) |
| Phone number, recommendations | From a LinkedIn data export, if you import one and confirm them. A recommendation includes the name, job title and words of the person who wrote it. |
| Applications you log: company, role, date, source, outcome, response time | Recorded when you apply or log manually |
| Application letters | Generated from your profile and stored as drafts |
A LinkedIn data export is read on your device. The archive is never uploaded; the app shows you what it found, and only the parts you confirm are saved to your profile. Recommendations LinkedIn marks hidden are not imported.
We do not collect or store card numbers, browsing history outside the app, or contacts.
Two things influence the location on your profile, and neither sends a coordinate anywhere.
Location is used to rank roles you could realistically take. Decline it, or clear the field, and the app keeps working; matches are less targeted.
In a Supabase project hosted in the EU (Ireland). Every table uses PostgreSQL row level security: a database policy checks your user ID on every read and write, so one account cannot query another's rows even if the application code were faulty.
CVs live in a private storage bucket under a path keyed to your user ID. There is no public link. The application requests a signed URL valid for five minutes when you open your own file.
What you open, read, save, apply to or hide is used to order Best match toward what you look at. That learning is kept only on your device, in your browser's storage: it is never sent to us or anyone else, it fades over a few weeks, and Settings → Privacy has a switch to turn it off and a button to erase it.
By default, only you. Your applications, profile, CV and documents are visible to your account alone.
There are two exceptions, and both are opt-in. If you enable "Share my outcomes" in Settings, your applications contribute to the accountability score shown on company pages. What that shares:
Even then, other users only ever see aggregate counts, never an individual record, and never anything identifying you. This is enforced in the database, not just the interface: the function that produces those aggregates returns counts only, includes a user solely when they have opted in, and excludes the requester's own rows.
There is a second, separate opt-in, per application. After an interview you can note the questions you were asked, and switch on "Share these questions". Only then do other signed-in users see those questions, each with the role and the month of the interview. They never see your name, your account, or which application it came from. The database refuses questions containing links, email addresses or phone numbers, and a question any user reports stops being shown. Switching it off, or deleting the application, removes them.
We do not sell your data, and we do not share it with advertisers.
Recede never contacts an employer on your behalf. It drafts an application letter from your profile; sending it is always your own action, from your own email or through the employer's own form. No employer receives anything from us.
Job listings are collected from employers' own public career-board feeds, from public job aggregators, and from national public employment services (Arbetsförmedlingen, MyCareersFuture, and the Czech Labour Office's open data). No personal data of yours is sent to any of them.
Most are searched live instead, when you look at a place, so that what you see is as current as the source: Germany's Bundesagentur für Arbeit (the Jobbörse); EURES (the European Union's job portal); the job search engines Adzuna, Careerjet, Jooble and Reed; USAJOBS; Workable's job board; the national employment services of Taiwan, Indonesia, Singapore, Russia and Kazakhstan (Enbek.kz, the labour ministry's Электронная биржа труда), and Le Forem, Wallonia's, in Belgium; the United Nations' job openings; France Travail, once it is connected; and employers' own career sites in the Middle East. Our server asks them on your behalf; your browser does not contact them, and they do not receive your name, email, CV or account. What they do receive is the search itself: the words you typed and the country you chose, and for the Jobbörse, when you look at Germany without typing, the job title and town from your profile, so that the first page is about you. Careerjet also requires, with every search, the internet address and browser name of the person searching, so our server passes on yours for those searches and nothing else. Nothing they return about you is kept, because they return nothing about you.
Employers and the public employment services that publish their vacancies (Arbetsförmedlingen in Sweden, MyCareersFuture in Singapore, Работа России in Russia, Enbek.kz in Kazakhstan, the Labour Office in Czechia, Le Forem in Belgium, and EURES, the European Union's job portal) often name a contact person on the advert: a name, a role, an email address, a phone number and the workplace address. Recede shows that contact on the listing and on the employer's page, so the person applying knows who they are writing to.
If you are named and do not want to be shown, email 7bshiup@gmail.com with the name, email address or phone number. It is removed from every employer page and listing, and kept on a list the ingest checks, so the next import of the same advert does not bring it back.
Your data is kept while your account exists. A replaced CV is deleted from storage when the new one is uploaded.
You can erase everything yourself, without asking anyone: open your account from your photo in the top corner and choose Delete account. It removes your applications and their history, every file you uploaded including your CV, your profile, experience, education and references, and the sign-in itself. Files are deleted from storage before the records that point at them, so nothing is left behind in a bucket with no way to find it. It happens immediately, it cannot be undone, and there is no copy kept so if you want your record, use Settings → Export first.
Aggregate figures that were already computed from applications you chose to share do not identify you and are not reversible into your record; they are counts, not rows.
Questions: 7bshiup@gmail.com. You do not need to email anyone to be deleted. The button above does it.