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Privacy

The short version. We don’t track you, there’s no JobChime account, and your own job-search data lives in your iCloud, not on our servers.

This website

No analytics, no advertising, no tracking. This site loads no analytics, advertising or tracking scripts, and sets no cookies. There’s no sign-in on this website.

Pages. Job, company and landing pages are put together on JobChime’s web service, which runs on Cloudflare, from public catalogue records stored in Apple’s CloudKit and JobChime’s daily list of open roles. Cloudflare handles the connection to this site, as any web host does, so it receives your IP address and browser details. JobChime doesn’t keep request logs for this site.

Searching. Search runs in your browser. It downloads the day’s list of open roles for the country you choose from JobChime’s search service: the same file for everyone. What you type never leaves your device. A search you share as a link contains your search words, so share it only if you’re happy for others to see them.

Applying. When you choose “Apply on the employer’s site”, you go to the employer’s own careers site. Their privacy policy applies there.

Your Tracker. Your followed companies, saved roles and Tracker are in the JobChime app on your iPhone, not on this website. This site never reads your iCloud data.

The JobChime app

Your data stays in your iCloud. Followed companies, saved roles, stages, notes, next steps, career profiles and the names of your documents sync through your private iCloud. Document files stay on your device. Employers can’t see who follows or saves them.

AutoTrack (optional). If you connect Outlook, Microsoft grants read-only access and recruitment emails are checked on your iPhone. On supported devices Apple Intelligence can help; content isn’t sent to remote AI services or to JobChime’s servers. Only relevant application details, attachment names and short excerpts sync with your private iCloud. Full email bodies, attachments and sign-in tokens aren’t uploaded. You can disconnect it at any time.

JobChime Apply. Your details for filling in application forms are released to the page only when you tap Fill, and only what that application needs. The form filling runs on your device.

On-device features. Take-home pay estimates, invitation photos you import and cover notes drafted with Apple Intelligence are worked out on your iPhone. If you add a home area for commute times, it’s rounded to about 100 metres, kept on your iPhone and sent only to Apple Maps.

Logos and job details. Company logos load from Logo.dev or the company’s website, and full job details from the employer’s recruitment provider (such as Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters or Workable), not through JobChime. Those services receive your IP address and which company or posting you opened. Your follows, saved roles and notes aren’t sent.

Sharing anonymous outcomes (off unless you turn it on). To show how employers treat applicants, each application can be reduced on your iPhone to the company, the month you applied, how long the first reply took (as a range, such as 3–7 days), how far you got and how it ended, whether a timeline they gave you was kept, and your answers to two optional questions asked when an application ends: whether they kept you informed (yes, partly or no) and, if you had interviews, whether they were well run (yes, mixed or no). Questions you skip send nothing. It’s sent once, within about a week of the application ending (or 60 days after you applied), in a weekly batch at a random time. No iCloud account, device identifier, dates, job titles or notes are sent, and roles you added yourself are never included. JobChime keeps only monthly counts per company, and a figure is shown only once at least 10 applications are behind it. Answers to the two questions are shown rounded, such as “about 6 in 10”, only once at least 10 people have answered.

Company counts. To decide which companies to research next, the app counts how often companies are followed, opened and their locked Pro cards tapped, and sends only those totals, at most once an hour. They aren’t linked to you, and you can turn this off in the app’s Privacy settings.

JobChime Pro. Apple handles payment and checks your subscription. JobChime doesn’t receive your payment details.

Your choices

  • Use this website without an account. Your own Tracker is in the app.
  • Turn off anonymous outcomes and company counts in the app’s Privacy settings. Anything not yet sent is deleted.
  • Remove follows, saved roles and notes in the app, or delete JobChime’s data from your iCloud in your iPhone’s settings.

What we actually hold

Almost nothing about you. There’s no JobChime account, and your job search lives in your own iCloud, where we can’t see it. The only personal data that reaches us is:

  • Your IP address, which Cloudflare sees when the app or this website connects to us, as any web host does. We don’t keep logs of it.
  • Your email address and message, if you contact us for support.

Anonymous outcomes and company counts reach us without anything that identifies you, and we keep only totals.

The rest of this page is the formal detail data protection law asks for.

Who’s responsible

JobChime is run by Alex Sheridan, a sole trader in the United Kingdom, who is the data controller. Contact us through the Support page. There’s no separate data protection officer.

Under UK and EU data protection law (GDPR), we rely on:

  • Consent for anonymous outcomes and the two questions about how an employer treated you. They’re off unless you turn them on, and you can turn them off at any time.
  • Legitimate interests for connecting the app and this website securely, for company counts (which you can turn off), and for replying when you contact us.
  • Contract for JobChime Pro, which Apple sells and manages for us.

We don’t sell data, show ads, build profiles of you or make automated decisions about you.

Services we use

  • Apple stores your private iCloud data, our public catalogue (CloudKit) and handles App Store purchases. We can’t see your private iCloud data.
  • Cloudflare runs our web services and this website.
  • Microsoft connects Outlook if you turn on AutoTrack.
  • Logo.dev and employers’ recruitment providers serve logos and job details directly to your device, under their own privacy policies.

Some of these providers work outside the UK and EU, including in the United States, under the legal safeguards the law requires, such as standard contractual clauses or the EU–US Data Privacy Framework and its UK extension.

How long things are kept

  • Your iCloud data stays until you delete it. We never hold a copy.
  • Anonymous outcome totals cover the last 12 months; older months are deleted.
  • Support emails are deleted within 12 months of your question being dealt with.

Your rights

Your job-search data is in your own iCloud, so you can see and delete it yourself at any time. Anonymous outcomes and company counts can’t be traced back to you, so there’s nothing of yours in them to find or delete.

For anything else, such as a support email, you can ask us to access, correct or delete it, to restrict or object to how we use it, or to give you a copy in a portable form, depending on where you live. Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it at any time.

To use your rights, contact us through the Support page. We’ll reply within one month.

If you’re unhappy with how we’ve handled your data, you can complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk) or to the data protection authority where you live, such as your national authority in the EU, Brazil’s ANPD, Australia’s OAIC or New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner. We’d like the chance to put it right first.

Changes

If this policy changes, we’ll update it here and change the date at the top.

Questions

Ask us through the Support page.

Last updated 9 November 2026.