Browser Extension Privacy Policy
Last updated: November 2026
Overview
The ResumeQuick browser extension does two things. It analyzes a job posting against your ResumeQuick profile and shows a match score, strengths and gaps. And it helps you fill in job application forms with details from your ResumeQuick account, including a cover letter written for that job where the form asks for one, which you review before you send the application yourself. This policy explains exactly what data the extension touches and where it goes. It complements the main ResumeQuick Privacy Policy.
What the extension reads
On LinkedIn job pages and on the application pages of Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, SmartRecruiters and Teamtailor, the extension checks inside your browser whether the page holds a job posting or an application form, so the extension can offer the right action, in the panel or on the page. Nothing from the page leaves your browser until you open the ResumeQuick panel or press a ResumeQuick control on the page. On other websites it reads a page only when you open the panel on it or choose a ResumeQuick item in the right-click menu, and it can read an application form there only after you press "Check for an application form" and allow access to that one site in your browser's prompt. If you turn on "Find jobs on any site", the extension also checks other pages inside your browser for job posting markup, and nothing from those pages is sent until you press something. It does not read your browsing history, your other tabs or your passwords.
What is stored on your device
To connect to your account you sign in with ResumeQuick: our sign-in page opens in a browser window, and once you allow access it hands the extension a sign-in token, which expires after an hour and is renewed in the background. You can paste a personal API key created in your ResumeQuick profile instead. The token or key is stored only in your browser's local extension storage and is sent solely to ResumeQuick, as an authorization header. To fill forms, the extension also keeps a copy of your application details there: your name, headline, contact details and profile links, location and time zone, salary expectations, availability, notice period and work authorization, and which resume to attach. The copy is refreshed from your account after 10 minutes or when you refresh it in the panel, and it is deleted when you sign out or connect a different account. While your browser is open, the extension also remembers the job you last looked at, so the panel can pick up where you left off. It also keeps your match results for jobs you analyzed on this device until you remove the extension, so it can show them on the page and in the tab title without contacting ResumeQuick. Removing the extension deletes everything it stored.
What is sent when you analyze a job
When the panel recognizes a job posting, or when you press the label beside an employer's Apply button, its web address is sent to ResumeQuick to check whether you have already analyzed it, so the same posting is never charged twice. When you start an analysis, the text of the posting and its web address are sent over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection to the ResumeQuick API, where they are compared against your profile and resume using automated AI processing. A cover letter is written the same way when you ask for one. If you select text and choose "Check my match" in the right-click menu, only the selected text is sent, without the web address. After an analysis the extension can mark on the page which requirements your resume covers; this happens inside your browser. Analyses are saved to your account, the same as analyses you run on the ResumeQuick website.
What happens when you fill an application form
When you press "Fill application", the extension fills the fields it recognizes from the copy of your details on your device and attaches your resume as a PDF downloaded from your account. The values it enters are not sent to ResumeQuick. For fields it cannot recognize, it sends only their labels and answer options, never anything typed into them, and ResumeQuick replies with which of your details the field is asking for. These label matches contain no personal data and are reused for every user. If you ask for draft answers to a form's open questions, the questions are sent together with your analysis of that job, and the drafts are shown to you to read and edit. A draft you ask for in the panel goes into the form only when you press "Insert into form" for that answer. A draft you ask for in a field with "Draft from my profile" appears in that field, marked as a draft, and you edit it before you send the form. If you choose to save an answer, the question and your answer are saved to your account, where you can edit or delete them. Pressing "Mark as applied" updates the status of that job in your ResumeQuick tracker. The extension skips questions about gender, ethnicity, disability, veteran status and similar topics: they are not sent and not filled. It never submits an application for you. You review the form and send it yourself, and what you send is then handled by the employer under their own privacy policy.
Permissions we request
The extension requests: access to the active tab and the ability to run its page reader and form scanner there (to read the posting or form you chose), the side panel (to show the extension), identity (to open the ResumeQuick sign-in page when you press Sign in with ResumeQuick), the right-click menu (to offer "Check my match" and "Fill this form"), storage (for your sign-in token or API key, settings and the copy of your details), alarms (to reliably finish an analysis that is already in progress), access to the ResumeQuick API, and access to LinkedIn job pages and the application pages of Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, SmartRecruiters and Teamtailor. Access to any other website is optional: your browser asks you for it one site at a time, only when you press "Check for an application form" there, or for all sites at once if you turn on "Find jobs on any site", and you can withdraw it at any time in your browser's extension settings.
Usage analytics
The extension sends usage events to our analytics provider so we can understand activation and reliability: for example, that an analysis was started, completed or failed, that a form was filled and how many of its fields were recognized, or that a link was clicked. These events are linked to your account. They never contain the text of a job posting, your resume, anything entered into a form, or your sign-in token or API key. The one piece of page content they carry is the list of field labels the extension could not recognize on a form, such as "notice period", which shows us which fields to learn next. In Firefox you can switch usage data off when you install the extension, or later in the extension's permissions under Add-ons and themes.
Third parties
Beyond the ResumeQuick API, your data is processed by the AI provider that powers analyses, cover letters and draft answers, and by our product-analytics provider (PostHog). We do not sell your data and we do not share it with advertisers.
Data retention
Your sign-in token or API key and the copy of your details stay in local browser storage until you sign out, connect a different account, or remove the extension. Analyses, cover letters and saved answers are kept with your ResumeQuick account and follow the retention and deletion controls described in the main Privacy Policy. Field-label matches are kept to help every user and hold no personal data.
Your rights
You can access or delete your personal data, including your saved answers, through your ResumeQuick account, and request a copy of it from our support. You can disconnect the extension under Connected apps or revoke its API key at any time, which immediately stops it from working until you connect it again. If you are in the EEA, you have additional rights under the GDPR.
What we do not do
We do not sell your data. We do not use the extension to track your general web browsing. We do not collect anything from a page unless you open the panel on it or press a ResumeQuick control on it. We never submit an application on your behalf.
Contact
Questions about this policy or your data? Reach us at hello@resumequick.app or through our contact page.