Privacy policy
Last updated 2026-11-03
1. Who is responsible
JobsScanner is run by the operator named on the commercial disclosure page (“we”, “us”), who is responsible for your personal information under Japan's Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI) and, where it applies, the EU and UK GDPR. For privacy requests, complaints and anything else about your data, write to our support address: support@jobsscanner.info.
2. What we collect and why
| Information | Why we use it | How long we keep it |
|---|---|---|
| Email address and a hashed password (never the password itself) | To run your account and send you service messages | Until you delete your account |
| The jobs you went to apply for from here (title, employer, date) | To show your application history on the History page | Until you remove the entry or delete your account |
| Saved searches, your default filters and the jobs you've opened | To show your saved and default filters and count the free job posts | Until you delete them or your account |
| Resume text you upload and the details we derive from it (contact details, work history, education, skills, scores) | To give you the resume analysis and job matching you asked for | Until you delete the resume or your account. The original file is not kept. |
| Our payment provider's customer and subscription identifiers, plan status | To know whether you have Pro and to manage billing | Until you delete your account; invoices are kept by the payment provider as tax law requires |
| Newsletter email address (if you sign up) | To send the site updates you asked for, which are marketing messages about JobsScanner | After unsubscribe, only the address and opt-out date remain on a suppression list; campaign details are removed |
| Server logs (IP address, browser, pages requested) | Security and fixing problems | Up to 90 days |
We don't use your information for anything beyond these purposes without asking you first, and we never make agreeing to other uses a condition of using the site.
3. Cookies
One cookie keeps you signed in (up to 30 days, or until you log out; logging out ends it on our side too) and a second, random security cookie protects forms from forged requests. Neither identifies you to anyone else. A third cookie records the choice you make in the cookie notice. If you allow Functional cookies there, your browser also stores your display preference and, for the current visit, the campaign link you arrived from. If you allow Performance cookies, we run analytics that count visits, traffic sources and which pages are used, so we can measure and improve the site; analytics cookies are set only while that category is allowed and the data is aggregated. We set no Advertising cookies today; if we add any, they will be set only while that category is allowed. You can change your choices at any time from Your Privacy Choices at the bottom of every page. There are no social-media trackers, and fonts and scripts are served from our own server, with one exception: the optional translation feature described in section 5. If you use it, Google's googtrans cookie (your chosen language, in the form /en/de) is stored in your browser, and we read that cookie to know whether to offer translation; it is a functional language preference, not a tracker. Choosing English removes it.
When you turn on “Match my resume” in deep search, the terms in your resume are compared with each result on our own server to show a match score; nothing leaves our server for this.
4. Who else receives it
- Nobody receives your resume. Analysis runs on our own server. It is not sent to any AI provider or other third party, it is not shared with employers, and it is not used to train models. The optional translation feature (section 5) is switched off on the resume pages and on every other page where you are signed in or see personal information.
- Payments. Card details go directly to our payment provider and never reach us. We give the provider your email address to set up the subscription, and it keeps invoices as tax law requires. The provider handles that data under its own privacy policy.
- We may disclose information where the law requires it.
We do not sell or rent personal information, and we don't share it with advertisers. The email updates we send are our own marketing; you opt in when you sign up and can unsubscribe from any message.
5. Optional page translation (Google)
The site header has a language menu (English, Deutsch, Italiano, Français, 日本語). English is the default and, while it is selected, your browser does not contact Google through this site.
- When it loads: only after you choose a language other than English, and only on public pages (for example the home, pricing, about, terms, privacy and contact pages). We then load Google's free Website Translator script from Google servers (translate.google.com, translate.googleapis.com, translate-pa.googleapis.com, www.gstatic.com and www.google.com).
- What Google receives: the text of the public page you are viewing, which Google LLC (United States) translates for you, together with the technical data your browser sends with any request (such as your IP address and browser details). Google handles it under Google's privacy policy; we do not control that processing.
- Where it is not available: the account, resume, login, registration, job search and job detail, deep-search, billing, newsletter, unsubscribe and listing-removal pages, and any page shown while you are signed in. There the menu is disabled and the Google script is never loaded.
- Cookie and preference: your choice is stored in your browser in the
googtranscookie, which is also the cookie Google's translator uses. It is a session cookie that normally lasts until you close the browser, and choosing English deletes it. Our server reads the cookie only to decide whether translation may load on the page you are requesting.
Machine translation can be inaccurate; the English text is what we publish.
6. How we protect it
Passwords are hashed with bcrypt, connections are encrypted with HTTPS, sign-in cookies are signed and HTTP-only, and access to the servers is limited to the operator.
7. Your rights
You can ask us to disclose, correct, stop using or delete the personal information we hold about you, or to disclose records of any third-party provision. Most of this you can do yourself: edit or delete your resume on the account page, or delete your whole account there. For anything else, email support@jobsscanner.info from your account's address; we answer within 30 days and charge nothing. If you are in the EEA or UK you also have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection, and may complain to your data protection authority. Our legal bases are the contract with you (account, Pro, analysis) and legitimate interests (security logs).
If you are a California resident: we don't sell or share personal information as the CCPA defines it.
8. Changes
We'll post any update here with a new date, and email account holders about material changes.