Jobsift Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Jobsift is an independent software project that develops browser-based tools, software, analytics and related services designed to help users discover, organise, filter and understand employment opportunities and job-market information.

This Privacy Policy explains how Jobsift may collect, access, use, store, disclose and otherwise process information when you use the Jobsift browser extension, websites, applications, support channels, research products, analytics services and other products or services that refer to this Privacy Policy.

In this Privacy Policy:

• “Jobsift”, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to the Jobsift project and the persons responsible for developing and operating it.
• “Extension” means the Jobsift Chrome browser extension.
• “Services” means the Extension and any Jobsift websites, applications, accounts, dashboards, subscriptions, support channels, research products, analytics products and related services that refer to this Privacy Policy.
• “User” and “you” refer to any individual or organisation that accesses or uses the Services.

This Privacy Policy describes both Jobsift’s current practices and the categories of processing that may apply if Jobsift introduces additional Services. A reference to a possible future feature does not mean that the feature is currently active.

3. Current and Future Features

Jobsift may progressively introduce additional features, which may include:

• User accounts and authenticated services
• Cloud storage and synchronisation
• Saved jobs and saved searches
• Cross-device access
• Job-search history
• Job-market dashboards
• Salary and compensation insights
• Hiring-demand and skill-demand analysis
• Job-listing quality indicators
• Application or competition indicators
• Personalised recommendations
• Notifications and alerts
• Artificial-intelligence-assisted features
• Research reports and market indices
• Team, employer and enterprise services
• Researcher and investor analytics
• Subscriptions and paid services
• Sponsorships and promoted content
• Commercial market-intelligence products

Describing a possible future feature does not activate it or authorise Jobsift to begin collecting information for it.

Before introducing a feature that materially changes how extension-accessed information is collected, transmitted, used or disclosed, Jobsift will update the relevant disclosures, provide a prominent notice and obtain affirmative and informed consent where required.

4. Information Jobsift May Process

The information processed depends on the Services and features used.

4.1 Job-listing information

Jobsift may access or process information displayed on supported employment-related pages or obtained from appropriately authorised sources, including:

• Job titles
• Company and employer names
• Job locations
• Job descriptions
• Job-posting URLs and identifiers
• Posting dates and posting age
• Employment type
• Workplace arrangement
• Seniority and experience level
• Skills, qualifications and requirements
• Salary and compensation information
• Benefits and employment conditions
• Job categories and business functions
• Promoted or sponsored indicators
• Reposted or duplicate-listing indicators
• Publicly displayed application or engagement indicators
• Publicly displayed employer or recruiter information
• Other publicly displayed job-listing attributes

Not every category is processed by every Jobsift feature.

4.2 Supported search-context information

Where necessary to provide a Jobsift feature, Jobsift may process:

• Search keywords
• Search locations
• Selected filters
• Sort preferences
• Pagination status
• Search-result identifiers
• Selected job listings
• Supported-page navigation
• Interactions with Jobsift filters and controls
• Dates and times associated with scans or requests
• The type of supported page on which Jobsift is used

Jobsift is not designed to monitor browsing activity on unrelated websites.

4.3 Settings and preferences

Jobsift may process or store settings such as:

• Whether Jobsift is enabled
• Selected filtering preferences
• Automatic filtering preferences
• Display and summary settings
• Notification settings
• Language and regional preferences
• Saved-job or saved-search preferences
• Synchronisation settings
• Privacy and consent choices

4.4 Technical and diagnostic information

Depending on the active feature, Jobsift may process:

• Extension or application version
• Browser type and version
• Browser user-agent information
• Operating-system information
• General device type
• Language and locale
• Dates and timestamps
• Error and crash information
• Performance and reliability information
• Scan status and duration
• General feature-use information
• Supported page type
• Network or request status
• Security and abuse-prevention signals

Jobsift will seek to avoid including complete job descriptions, search histories or unnecessary personal information in technical logs.

4.5 Information provided voluntarily

Jobsift may process information that a user voluntarily provides when the user:

• Submits feedback
• Requests support
• Contacts Jobsift
• Joins a waitlist
• Subscribes to communications
• Responds to a survey
• Participates in research
• Requests a demonstration
• Reports a job listing
• Creates an account
• Purchases a product or service
• Communicates with Jobsift through another channel

This information may include contact details, message contents, attachments, research responses and any other information the user chooses to provide.

4.6 Account information

If Jobsift introduces accounts, Jobsift may process:

• Name or display name
• Email address
• Account identifier
• Authentication-provider information
• Organisation or team name
• Account role
• Subscription status
• Account preferences
• Saved jobs, searches and dashboard information
• Account-related communications

Where authentication is performed by an independent identity provider, Jobsift does not intend to receive the password used with that provider.

4.7 Payment information

If Jobsift introduces paid Services, Jobsift or its payment provider may process:

• Billing name and address
• Product or subscription selected
• Transaction amount and currency
• Payment status
• Invoice and tax information
• Payment-provider customer and transaction identifiers

Jobsift does not intend to directly store complete payment-card information where payments are handled by an independent payment provider.

4.8 Independently obtained research information

Jobsift may obtain information independently of an individual user’s Extension activity from:

• Publicly available sources
• Open datasets
• Licensed or authorised datasets
• Employers and business customers
• Research participants
• Data contributors
• Commercial and research partners
• Aggregated or de-identified datasets
• Separately disclosed online Jobsift Services

Information obtained through an individual user’s Chrome extension permissions remains subject to the restrictions described in the Chrome Web Store Limited Use section below.

5. How Jobsift Obtains Information

Depending on the active Service, Jobsift may obtain information:

• Directly from the user
• From supported pages accessed while the user operates an active Jobsift feature
• Through Chrome extension APIs and permissions
• From the user’s browser or device
• From Jobsift websites and applications
• From authentication and payment providers
• From feedback and support providers
• From employers and business customers
• From data contributors and research participants
• From publicly available or appropriately licensed sources
• Through authorised commercial or research arrangements

6. Browser Processing and Storage

6.1 Local job-page processing

All ordinary job-page scanning, classification, filtering, organisation and display processing performed by the current Jobsift beta takes place within the user’s browser.

During ordinary scanning and filtering, the current beta does not transmit job titles, company names, job descriptions, scan results, selected listings, search keywords or LinkedIn search URLs to Jobsift, a Jobsift backend server, an analytics provider, an artificial-intelligence provider or an advertising platform.

6.2 Chrome local storage

Jobsift uses Chrome local extension storage for runtime information such as:

• Scan status
• Current-page summary counts
• Result-page state
• Pagination state
• Manual refresh state
• Content-script operational state

A locally stored result-page identifier may include LinkedIn search keywords, search location, pagination and selected LinkedIn filter parameters.

6.3 Chrome synchronised storage

Jobsift uses Chrome synchronised extension storage for user preferences such as:

• Whether Jobsift is enabled
• Selected filtering options
• Automatic filtering preferences
• Display preferences
• Privacy and consent settings

Where the user has enabled Chrome Sync, Google Chrome may synchronise these preferences between Chrome browsers in which the user is signed in.

Jobsift does not independently receive these synchronised preferences through a Jobsift server.

7. How Jobsift May Use Information

Jobsift may use relevant information to:

7.1 Provide the Services

• Scan and organise job-search results
• Identify job-posting attributes
• Detect promoted, reposted or duplicate listings
• Label, rank, show or hide listings
• Apply user-selected preferences
• Display scan summaries
• Save settings
• Coordinate scans following page changes
• Provide requested support
• Respond to feedback
• Operate accounts and subscriptions
• Provide saved jobs, dashboards and notifications
• Deliver other Services requested by the user

7.2 Operate, secure and improve Jobsift

• Diagnose errors
• Maintain reliability
• Prevent fraud and abuse
• Protect users and Jobsift systems
• Improve extraction and classification accuracy
• Evaluate false positives and false negatives
• Test and improve user-facing functionality
• Conduct quality assurance
• Maintain service integrity
• Comply with applicable platform requirements

7.3 Develop research and analytics products

Where Jobsift introduces separately disclosed research or market-intelligence Services, Jobsift may use information obtained from appropriately authorised sources to:

• Analyse hiring demand
• Identify employment and recruitment trends
• Study posting and reposting behaviour
• Analyse salary and skill trends
• Compare industries, employers, business functions and locations
• Develop benchmarks, reports, indices and dashboards
• Conduct labour-market research
• Develop commercial analytics and forecasting products
• Support business, economic and investment research

Jobsift will not use identifiable individual Extension browsing activity or job-search history to create unrelated commercial market-intelligence products.

Chrome extension-accessed information will not be commercialised merely because it has been aggregated, anonymised, de-identified or transformed.

7.4 Artificial-intelligence features

Jobsift may introduce optional artificial-intelligence-assisted features.

Before transmitting extension-accessed information to an external artificial-intelligence provider, Jobsift will:

• Identify the provider
• Explain what information will be transmitted
• Explain the purpose of the processing
• Explain relevant retention and model-training practices
• Provide a prominent in-product notice
• Obtain affirmative and informed consent where required
• Transmit only the information reasonably necessary for the requested feature
• Provide a method to disable the feature or withdraw consent for future transmissions

The current beta does not send job-page information to an external artificial-intelligence service.

7.5 Communications

Jobsift may use contact information to:

• Respond to enquiries
• Provide support
• Send service and security notices
• Communicate product or policy changes
• Confirm transactions
• Send requested information
• Send promotional communications where permitted

Users may opt out of non-essential promotional communications through the method stated in the communication or by contacting Jobsift.

8. Feedback and Support Services

When a user deliberately selects Send feedback, Jobsift opens a form operated by Tally.

Jobsift automatically provides the form with:

• The Jobsift extension version
• Browser user-agent information
• A coarse description of the current page type
• A timestamp
• A diagnostic object containing the same categories of information

Jobsift does not automatically provide Tally with:

• Job titles
• Company names
• Scan results
• Summary counts
• Search keywords
• Search location
• The complete LinkedIn URL
• Selected job identifiers
• Screenshots

The user may separately provide information through the Tally form, including feedback text or contact details requested by the form.

Tally processes submitted information according to its own terms and privacy practices.

9. Cookies and Similar Technologies

The current Extension does not use website cookies to provide ordinary job-page scanning.

Jobsift websites or future online Services may use cookies, browser storage, pixels, tags or similar technologies to:

• Maintain sessions
• Remember preferences
• Authenticate users
• Secure accounts
• Measure reliability and performance
• Understand feature adoption
• Prevent fraud and abuse
• Remember privacy choices
• Measure general campaign performance

Where required, Jobsift will provide appropriate notice, controls or consent mechanisms before using such technologies.

10. How Jobsift May Disclose Information

Jobsift may disclose information that it actually receives to:

10.1 Service providers

Service providers may assist Jobsift with:

• Website and policy hosting
• Feedback collection
• Email communications
• Cloud infrastructure
• Authentication
• Payment processing
• Customer support
• Security and error monitoring
• Product operations
• Research and survey administration
• Professional services

Current providers may include:

• Tally, for voluntary feedback submissions
• GitHub, for hosting informational pages
• Google, for email and browser services

A service provider may process information only for the relevant service and subject to applicable legal, contractual and provider terms.

10.2 Business customers and research partners

Where Jobsift offers research, analytics or business Services, Jobsift may provide customers or partners with:

• Aggregated market statistics
• De-identified trends
• Employer or industry benchmarks
• Job-market reports
• Research outputs
• Analytical dashboards
• Market indices

Jobsift does not ordinarily provide these recipients with identifiable individual Extension job-search histories.

10.3 At the user’s direction

Jobsift may disclose information where the user requests, directs or clearly authorises the disclosure.

10.4 Legal and safety purposes

Jobsift may disclose information that it actually possesses where reasonably necessary to:

• Comply with applicable law
• Respond to valid legal process
• Investigate fraud, abuse or security incidents
• Protect users or the public
• Protect Jobsift’s rights, property or safety
• Establish, exercise or defend legal claims

Jobsift cannot disclose ordinary job-page scanning information that remains within the user’s browser because Jobsift does not receive or possess that information.

10.5 Corporate or project transactions

If Jobsift is involved in a financing, incorporation, acquisition, restructuring, reorganisation or transfer of all or part of the project, information actually held by Jobsift may be disclosed in connection with the proposed or completed transaction.

A corporate transaction does not permit Jobsift to retrieve information that remains locally on a user’s device.

Where platform rules or applicable law require explicit prior consent for a transfer, Jobsift will seek that consent before completing the transfer.

11. Advertising and Commercialisation

Jobsift may introduce contextual advertisements, sponsorships, subscription offers, employer-sponsored content, promoted content or non-personalised promotional messages in future online Services.

Jobsift does not use an individual user’s Extension browsing activity or job-search history to:

• Create personalised advertising profiles
• Conduct cross-site behavioural advertising
• Build advertising audiences
• Sell information to data brokers
• Perform unrelated surveillance
• Determine creditworthiness
• Make lending, insurance, housing or final employment-eligibility decisions

Jobsift may develop commercial research and market-intelligence products using independently obtained, appropriately licensed, employer-provided, business-provided or separately contributed information.

Information obtained through an individual user’s Extension permissions will remain subject to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy and will not be used for unrelated commercial products.

12. Aggregated and De-Identified Information

Jobsift may create aggregated, statistical, anonymised or de-identified information from information lawfully obtained through Jobsift Services or independent sources.

Jobsift may use sufficiently aggregated or de-identified information for:

• Research
• Analytics
• Statistics
• Service improvement
• Business planning
• Market reports
• Benchmarks
• Commercial products

However, the Chrome Web Store Limited Use restrictions continue to apply to information obtained through Extension permissions, including aggregated, anonymised, de-identified and derived information.

Jobsift will not use technical de-identification as a means to avoid applicable Chrome Web Store restrictions.

13. Legal Bases

Depending on the user’s location and the feature involved, Jobsift may process information based on:

• The user’s consent
• Performance of a contract
• Steps requested before entering into a contract
• Compliance with a legal obligation
• Legitimate interests in operating, securing and improving the Services
• Protection of users or other individuals
• Other lawful grounds recognised by applicable law

Where Jobsift relies on consent, the user may withdraw consent through the relevant product controls or by contacting Jobsift.

14. Retention

Jobsift retains information only for as long as reasonably necessary for:

• The purpose for which it was obtained
• Providing the requested Services
• Security and fraud prevention
• Responding to support or feedback
• Resolving disputes
• Enforcing agreements
• Maintaining legally required records
• Establishing or defending legal claims
• Producing valid aggregated or de-identified research

Local Chrome extension information may remain until the user resets Jobsift, clears browser or extension storage, disables relevant synchronisation or uninstalls the Extension.

Feedback and support communications may be retained for a reasonable period based on the nature of the request.

Account and transaction information, if introduced, may be retained while the relevant account or transaction records remain necessary.

15. User Controls and Rights

Depending on the active feature and applicable law, users may be able to:

• Enable or disable Jobsift
• Change filtering preferences
• Clear locally stored information
• Reset Jobsift
• Disable Chrome synchronisation
• Uninstall the Extension
• Opt in to or out of optional online features
• Withdraw consent
• Access eligible personal information
• Correct inaccurate information
• Request deletion
• Object to or restrict certain processing
• Request a portable copy of eligible information
• Opt out of legally defined sale, sharing or targeted advertising
• Lodge a complaint with a relevant authority

Jobsift may need to verify a requester’s identity before completing a request involving remotely held personal information.

Jobsift generally cannot access or delete information that remains exclusively within the user’s browser. Users can remove such information through browser and Extension controls.

16. International Processing

Where Jobsift uses online service providers, information may be processed in jurisdictions outside the user’s place of residence.

Where required, Jobsift will use appropriate contractual, organisational or technical safeguards for international processing.

17. Security

Jobsift uses reasonable administrative, organisational and technical measures designed to protect information against unauthorised access, disclosure, loss, misuse, alteration or destruction.

Depending on the feature, these measures may include:

• Data minimisation
• Secure development practices
• Access controls
• Encryption in transit
• Restricted administrative access
• Dependency and vulnerability management
• Provider reviews
• Incident-response procedures

No software, device, storage or transmission system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Information stored in a browser extension may be accessible to another person who has access to the user’s device or Chrome profile.

18. Human Access

Jobsift personnel and service providers cannot access information that remains locally within the user’s browser during ordinary scanning and filtering.

Human access to information received by Jobsift may occur only where reasonably necessary to:

• Provide support requested by the user
• Process feedback voluntarily submitted by the user
• Investigate a security incident
• Prevent fraud or abuse
• Maintain essential service operations
• Comply with applicable law
• Perform specifically disclosed and authorised processing

19. Children’s Privacy

Jobsift is not directed to individuals under 16 years of age or the minimum age required to use the relevant supported employment platform, whichever is higher.

Jobsift does not knowingly collect personal information from children where legally required consent has not been obtained.

20. Third-Party Websites and Services

Jobsift may interact with or link to independent third-party services, including:

• Employment platforms
• Browser providers
• Hosting providers
• Feedback services
• Authentication providers
• Payment providers
• Email providers
• Research and data providers

Independent third parties process information according to their own terms and privacy policies.

Jobsift is not affiliated with, endorsed by, authorised by or sponsored by LinkedIn Corporation or its affiliates.

21. Chrome Web Store Limited Use

The use of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Jobsift uses information accessed through Chrome extension permissions only to provide or improve Jobsift’s disclosed user-facing purpose and related security, reliability, fraud-prevention and user-requested support functions.

Jobsift does not use, transfer, sell or license information obtained through Extension permissions for:

• Personalised advertising
• Cross-site behavioural advertising
• Data-broker services
• Information-reseller services
• Unrelated profiling
• Creditworthiness assessment
• Lending
• Insurance eligibility
• Unrelated surveillance
• Purposes unrelated to Jobsift’s disclosed user-facing functionality

These restrictions apply to raw Extension-accessed information and to information aggregated, anonymised, de-identified or derived from that information.

22. Changes to This Privacy Policy

Jobsift may update this Privacy Policy to reflect:

• New products or features
• Changes in information-handling practices
• Changes in service providers
• Security improvements
• Legal or regulatory requirements
• Chrome Web Store or platform requirements
• Clarifications

Jobsift will not begin transmitting information that is currently processed only within the user’s browser merely by updating this Privacy Policy.

Before introducing a feature that sends extension-accessed job-page content or job-search information to a Jobsift server, cloud service or artificial-intelligence provider, Jobsift will:

• Update the Privacy Policy and relevant Chrome Web Store disclosures
• Provide a prominent notice within the Extension
• Identify the information to be transmitted
• Identify the recipient or category of recipient
• Explain the purpose of processing
• Explain relevant retention and model-training practices
• Obtain affirmative and informed consent where required
• Provide relevant controls to disable the feature

Continued use of Jobsift’s local features will not, by itself, constitute consent to begin off-device processing.

23. Contact Jobsift

For privacy questions, requests or concerns, contact:

Project:

Jobsift

Privacy contact:

hsnbrg.ships@gmail.com