Summary: Autocater operates on an immutable local-first foundation. Your candidate profiles, resumes, and job applications are stored exclusively on your device. We do not maintain analytics servers, track your browsing history, or sell your personal information.

1. Core Principle: Local-First Architecture, Zero Tracking

Autocater is designed from the ground up to protect candidate privacy:

  • No Telemetry or Tracking: We do not track your browsing habits, inject analytics beacons, collect fingerprinting metrics, or sell your personal information.
  • Local Storage by Default: All profile details (such as names, emails, addresses, links, work history, and custom fields) are stored directly on your physical device using the browser's built-in chrome.storage.local API.
  • No Unauthorized Third-Party Servers: Autocater does not maintain external databases to store, harvest, or log your personal data or resume files.

2. Chrome Permissions and Data Storage

Autocater requests only permissions strictly necessary to automate job applications:

  • storage: Used to save your autofill profiles and settings.
    • Local Storage (Default): Profile data remains on your physical machine.
    • Optional Chrome Sync (Opt-In): If you explicitly enable browser synchronization, data is synchronized via Google's secure chrome.storage.sync infrastructure tied directly to your personal Google Account. We do not have access to or host this synchronization data.
  • activeTab & scripting: Used strictly to detect form input fields and insert your saved profile details when you initiate autofill on an active job portal tab.
  • Host Permissions (<all_urls>): Job applications are hosted across thousands of independent company career portals and ATS platforms (e.g., Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, Ashby, SmartRecruiters). Broad access enables autofill functionality on any job portal you visit without restricting your job search. Autocater only inspects the active DOM when on job-related pages or when you trigger autofill.

3. Single-Purpose Compliance

In strict accordance with the Google Chrome Web Store Developer Program Policies:

  • Autocater serves a single, clear purpose: automating repetitive form filling on job application web pages.
  • Permissions requested are used solely to fulfill this declared purpose.
  • We certify that user data is never used for lending, credit scoring, advertising, or sold to third-party data brokers.

4. AI Inference and User-Initiated Processing

Autocater incorporates optional, user-initiated AI capabilities to assist with resume parsing and answering complex application questions:

  • User-Initiated: AI requests occur solely when initiated by the user (such as importing a resume or asking the assistant to draft an answer to an open-ended questionnaire).
  • Ephemeral Processing: Resume and question context sent for AI processing are evaluated ephemerally in memory to generate the requested output and are not retained to train third-party foundation models.
  • Zero Remote Code: In compliance with Manifest V3, all extension logic, UI styling, and parsing engines are packaged locally within the extension archive. No external scripts are dynamically executed.

5. Third-Party Services

Autocater does not bundle third-party trackers, analytics libraries, or advertising SDKs. When using optional AI features, encrypted HTTPS requests communicate with privacy-aligned API inference endpoints (such as OpenRouter) under strict confidentiality standards.

6. Data Retention and User Control

You maintain 100% control over your data at all times:

  • Instant Export / Backup: You can download a complete backup file of your profiles directly to your computer at any time.
  • Complete Deletion: Deleting a profile in the extension immediately clears it from your device storage. Uninstalling Autocater from Chrome permanently removes all locally stored profiles.

7. Changes to this Policy

If we update our privacy practices or introduce new optional capabilities, we will update this document and the "Effective Date" at the top of this page. If any proposed update meaningfully changes how your data is handled, prominent notification will be provided within the extension interface prior to the change taking effect.

8. Contact Us

If you have any questions, feedback, or privacy inquiries regarding Autocater, please contact our team: