1. Who we are
Resume Studio ("we", "us", "our") is operated by Irina Taktarova (ABN 35 478 248 536), based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. We are the data controller responsible for your personal information.
For any privacy question or request, contact our privacy contact (Irina Taktarova) at support@resume-studio.app.
2. What information we collect
You can browse and build a résumé without creating an account. The information we hold depends on how you use the service:
| Information | What it is | When we collect it |
|---|---|---|
| Résumé content | The details you enter or import: name, contact details, location, work and education history, skills, and anything else you choose to add, including an optional profile photo. | When you build or import a résumé. |
| Account email | The email address you sign in with. | When you sign in. |
| Sign-in tokens | Single-use, short-lived magic-link tokens, stored only in hashed form. | When you request a sign-in link. |
| Session & technical data | A session identifier, your IP address, and browser user-agent, used to keep you signed in and to protect the service. | Automatically, as you use the site. |
| Purchase records | Records of resume-export purchases (amount, date, and a payment reference). We never see or store your full card details. Payment is handled entirely by Stripe. | When you buy resume exports. |
A résumé can incidentally reveal sensitive information (for example, membership of an organisation, or volunteering that implies health, religious, or political affiliations). You decide what to include, please only add what you're comfortable storing with us.
3. How we use your information
- To provide the editor, save your work, and generate your PDF.
- To sign you in and keep your session secure (passwordless).
- To process purchases and apply your resume exports.
- To send essential transactional emails (such as your sign-in link).
- To keep the service safe: rate limiting, fraud and abuse prevention, and debugging.
- To meet our legal, tax, and accounting obligations.
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not use it for advertising or third-party tracking.
4. Legal bases for processing (GDPR / UK GDPR)
- Performance of a contract: providing the editor, saving your résumés, and generating your PDF.
- Legitimate interests: keeping the service secure and preventing abuse, balanced against your rights.
- Consent: where we ask for it (for example, any optional or future marketing emails). You can withdraw consent at any time.
- Legal obligation: retaining purchase records for tax and accounting law.
5. AI-assisted résumé import
If you choose to import an existing résumé, the PDF you upload is sent to our AI provider, Anthropic (the maker of Claude), purely to read it and pre-fill the editor for you. The file contains personal information, so we want to be clear about it:
- This only happens when you actively use the import feature.
- The extracted content is returned to you as an editable draft. It is not automatically saved or exported until you choose to.
- Anthropic processes the file to provide the result and does not use it to train its models.
7. Where your data is stored & international transfers
Your résumés, account, and database records are hosted in Sydney, Australia. Some of our service providers (above) are based overseas, primarily in the United States, so using them involves transferring data internationally.
Where we transfer data out of the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we rely on an appropriate safeguard, typically the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses or an adequacy decision. You can ask us for more detail using the contact below.
8. How long we keep your data
| Data | Retention |
|---|---|
| Your account, résumés, and saved content | Until you delete them or close your account. |
| Anonymous (no account) data with no saved résumé | Automatically purged after a short period of inactivity. |
| Sessions | Up to 30 days, then expired and purged. |
| Sign-in tokens | 15 minutes, single-use, then purged. |
| Purchase records | Kept (with personal details removed where possible) for as long as Australian tax and accounting law requires, generally 5 years. |
When you delete your account, we remove your résumés, profile, and sessions. If you have made a purchase, we keep the purchase record but strip it of identifying details, because we are legally required to retain financial records.
10. How we protect your data
- Passwordless sign-in: we never store passwords, so there's no password to leak.
- Sign-in tokens are hashed; session cookies are opaque and httpOnly.
- Encrypted connections (HTTPS) and encryption of data at rest.
- Rate limiting, strict access controls so you can only reach your own data, and regular security review.
No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your information and to respond quickly if something goes wrong, including notifying you and the relevant authority where the law requires.
11. Your rights & choices
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, export, restrict, or object to our use of your personal information, and to withdraw consent. You can exercise the core rights directly in the app:
- Export: download a machine-readable copy of your account and résumé data from your account menu.
- Delete: permanently delete your account and content from your account menu.
For anything else, email support@resume-studio.app. We aim to respond within 30 days. If you are in Australia and are unhappy with our response, you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (oaic.gov.au); in the EEA/UK, you can complain to your local data protection authority.
12. Children
Resume Studio is not intended for children under 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under that age. If you believe a child has provided us information, contact us and we'll delete it.
13. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time. We'll change the "last updated" date above and, for material changes, take reasonable steps to notify you.
14. Contact us
Irina Taktarova (ABN 35 478 248 536)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
support@resume-studio.app