Privacy

Last updated: 2026-06-03

What we collect

Browsing without signup: anonymous page-view and click counts via Plausible Analytics (self-hosted). No cookies, no fingerprinting, no individual tracking.

Search-result interactions: to improve job ranking, FewerJobs stores short-lived anonymous first-party event logs for job search results. Those logs can include random IDs for one ranked response, one page load, event dedupe, and result exposures; route, page, result count, sort, ranking policy, and schema version markers; redacted HMAC query and filter hashes; safe query and filter features such as term count, filter categories, role IDs, and salary buckets; job result IDs, result surface, page and absolute positions; small ranking feature snapshots such as score and benefit flags; event type such as result_seen, detail_click, or apply_click; link kind, apply surface, client and server timestamps, and whitelisted metadata such as visible-time buckets or same-origin destination. At a human level, this tells us which anonymous result positions were seen, opened, or sent to apply; raw rows roll up into anonymous aggregate counts used for ranking quality.

If you sign up for the weekly digest: just your email and any free-text "interests" you tell us. Stored in our backend; sent to Resend (our email provider) for delivery. We do not sell, share, or rent this list.

What we don't collect

• No accounts, no passwords, no personal profile, and no resume uploads
• No tracking cookies, third-party ad pixels, or cross-site ad tracking
• No IP address, user agent, referrer URL, or browser fingerprinting fields in search-result event tables
• No raw search query text, raw URL query string, precise location, click coordinates, exact scroll depth, screen size, time zone, or browser language in search-result event tables
• No analytics identity read from saved filters, hidden employers, applied badges, localStorage, or sessionStorage
• No FewerJobs tracking parameters added to outbound employer apply links

Cookies

FewerJobs does not use cookies for analytics or search-result events. Browser-only preferences, such as saved filters, hidden employers, and applied badges, may stay in your browser storage on your device; they are not used as analytics identifiers.

International visitors

FewerJobs serves the same public site to visitors regardless of country. Some listings, benefits, and filters are U.S.-focused because that is where the current source coverage is strongest, but everyone gets the same public site.

Delete my data

Email [email protected]. We delete digest or subscriber data within 7 days and confirm. Anonymous search-result event rows are not tied to a name, email, account, or durable visitor ID, so we cannot look them up for a named person. Raw event rows that include pageview IDs are kept for up to 30 days; anonymous ranked-response and result-exposure rows are kept for up to 90 days; long-term ranking data is aggregate counts by day, hashed query and filter, result, position, surface, and ranking policy.

Contact

Privacy questions: [email protected]
Takedown / DMCA: [email protected]