Privacy

CareerVertex is the data controller for the personal data you give us. This page says what we hold, why, and for how long. Questions or requests: [email protected].

What we hold

• Your email address and name, to sign you in and address your letters.
• Your CV file, its text and a structured summary (roles, achievements, platforms, sectors, languages), to match you to roles and draft applications.
• Your search terms, matches, application drafts, pipeline and notes.
• Payment records from Stripe (amount and dates; we never see your card).

We never extract or store special-category data such as health, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or political views, even if your CV mentions it.

How we use it

We process your data to provide the service you asked for (UK GDPR Article 6(1)(b)). Your CV text and summary are sent to Anthropic's Claude API to read your CV, rate roles and draft applications; Anthropic processes it for us and does not use it to train models. Emails we send you (sign-in codes, digests and reminders) go through Resend. You can turn off digests and reminders on your account page or from the link in each one; sign-in codes are always sent. Payments go through Stripe.

Recruiter names and contact details come from public job listings and are held under legitimate interest, only so you can reply to the listing.

AI drafting

Claude drafts your application emails and cover letters from your CV and the listing. A second check removes any sentence your CV doesn't support, but you are responsible for what you send. CareerVertex never sends an application, submits a form or emails a recruiter for you.

How long we keep it

We keep your data while your search is running and for 12 months after it ends (when you mark a contract accepted or end your search), or 12 months after you were last signed in. Then it is deleted automatically. You can delete your account and everything in it at any time from your account page; deletion is immediate.

Your rights

You can ask for a copy of your data, ask us to correct or delete it, or object to how we use it. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk).

Cookies

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