Privacy & Local-First Guarantees

JobFoundry is built on a foundational principle: your career history, job applications, fit evaluations, and resume variants belong exclusively to you.

1. Local Storage Guarantee

All your data—including ingested job listings, candidate profiles, fit scores, and generated PDF/Typst resumes—is stored in a local SQLite file (data/jobfoundry.db) or your private self-hosted PostgreSQL database. We do not host your database or offer cloud synchronization that compromises local ownership.

2. Browser-Originating Ingestion Invariant

The JobFoundry server never connects directly to job boards. Scraping actions occur exclusively within your own browser session via the companion extension, ensuring:

• Your browser cookies and session headers never leave your machine.
• No server IP ever risks being flagged or blocked.
• You maintain full visibility and control over what pages are parsed.

3. Local LLM Execution

JobFoundry is engineered to integrate natively with local inference servers like Ollama or vLLM. When using local models, your resume and job postings never leave your machine. If you choose to configure a commercial cloud model (e.g. OpenAI), requests are sent directly from your daemon using your private API key without passing through any intermediate proxy.

4. Data Portability & Deletion

You can export your database at any time or delete it entirely by removing the data/ folder. Because JobFoundry relies on standard SQLite and open file formats, you are never locked into any proprietary system.

5. Licensing & Source Code Transparency

All source code is publicly inspectable and licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3 (AGPL-3.0). You can independently audit every line of code in the companion extension, ingestion engine, and dashboard.

6. Website Analytics & Public Documentation

Browser Extension & Local Application: The JobFoundry companion extension, server daemon, and web dashboard do not contain any third-party analytics, ads, tracking scripts, or telemetry beacons.

Documentation & Landing Website (covai.org): Our public documentation and marketing website uses privacy-friendly, zero-cookie web analytics (covai.org) to measure aggregate visitor counts, referrers, and documentation navigation. No personal data, job search queries, resume variants, or client credentials are ever captured or transmitted.