Privacy Policy
Effective July 31, 2026. Last updated July 31, 2026.
Verdeer is a private job-search workspace. This policy explains what it collects, what it does with it, and what it will never do. It is written to be read, not to be survived, so it is specific about mechanics rather than broad about intentions.
Verdeer is currently operated as an individual project by its author, based in the United States. Throughout this policy, “Verdeer,” “we,” and “us” refer to that operator.
1. The short version
- Your career record and your email data are yours. They are used to operate Verdeer for you, and for nothing else.
- We do not sell your data, we do not share it for advertising, and we do not use it to train generalized AI or machine-learning models.
- Connecting Gmail is optional, read-only, and revocable by you at any time.
- Verdeer proposes; you confirm. Information detected from your email does not become part of your record until you accept it.
2. What Verdeer collects
2.1 Information you provide
Your account details, and the material you put into the product: work history, stories and accomplishments, target roles and preferences, job opportunities you are tracking, application materials such as resumes and cover letters, notes, and the content of your conversations with the product's coaching features.
2.2 Information from Google, if you connect Gmail
Connecting Gmail is optional. Verdeer requests a single Google scope,
gmail.readonly, which permits reading mail and cannot
send, modify, or delete anything.
| What we access | Why |
|---|---|
| Messages matching job-application patterns — application confirmations, rejections, interview and recruiter-scheduling mail | To determine what changed for which application, so your tracker stays accurate without manual upkeep |
| For those messages: sender, recipient, subject, date, message and thread identifiers, and the message body | The body is what distinguishes a rejection from an interview invitation; the identifiers prevent the same message being counted twice |
Verdeer does not download or open attachments. It does not read your mailbox for any purpose other than the one described above.
2.3 Technical information
Standard server and security logs, including IP address, timestamps, and error diagnostics, retained for a limited period to keep the service running and secure. This public website sets no cookies and runs no analytics or tracking scripts.
3. How Google user data is used, stored, and shared
This section is the detailed disclosure required by Google. It is the part to read closely.
3.1 How it is used
Message content is evaluated by deterministic rules running on Verdeer's own infrastructure — pattern matching, not a language model — to classify a message as a confirmation, rejection, interview invitation, or none of these, and to associate it with an application you are already tracking.
The result is presented to you as a suggestion you must accept or dismiss. Nothing detected from your email is written into your career record automatically.
3.2 What is retained, and what is not
- Message bodies are not retained. Body text is held in memory only for as long as it takes to classify the message, and is then discarded. It is not written to the database.
- What is retained for a pending or accepted suggestion: the Google message and thread identifiers, the sender address, the subject line, and the date. The identifiers are retained after you act on a suggestion so that a message you have already dismissed does not resurface.
- If you accept a suggestion that creates or updates an application record, the information you accepted — which may include text derived from the subject line — becomes part of your Verdeer record and is retained with it.
3.3 Sharing, and the one case where processing involves a third party
Google user data is not sold, rented, or shared for advertising, and is not transferred to third parties except as described here.
Verdeer uses Anthropic's Claude API as a service provider for drafting and analysis features. Email classification does not use it: as described in 3.1, that runs on deterministic rules and no email content is sent to any AI provider as part of it.
There is one indirect path, and we would rather state it plainly than let you discover it. If you accept a suggestion that creates or updates an application record, the accepted information becomes ordinary content in your Verdeer record. If you then use a feature that reasons over your records — asking the product to draft a cover letter for that role, for example — that record content, which may include text derived from an email subject line, can be included in the request sent to Anthropic on your behalf. Anthropic processes it to return your result. Under Anthropic's commercial terms, inputs submitted through the API are not used to train their models.
We may also disclose information where the law requires it, or where it is necessary to investigate a security incident or a violation of our terms.
3.4 Limited Use
Verdeer's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Specifically, Verdeer does not:
- use Google user data to serve advertisements of any kind;
- sell or transfer Google user data to data brokers, information resellers, or any other party for advertising, credit assessment, or similar purposes;
- use Google user data to develop, improve, or train generalized artificial intelligence or machine-learning models;
- permit humans to read Google user data, unless we have your affirmative agreement for a specific message (for example, when you send it to us to resolve a support problem), it is necessary for security purposes such as investigating abuse, or we are required to by law.
4. Your controls
- Disconnect Gmail at any time. You can revoke Verdeer's access yourself from your Google Account's third-party access page. Revoking takes effect immediately and stops all further access.
- Delete your data. Write to hello@verdeer.com and we will delete your account and its contents, including everything derived from your email, within 30 days, and confirm when it is done.
- Get a copy, or ask what is held. Same address. We will respond within 30 days.
Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights over your personal information, including access, correction, deletion, and the right to complain to a supervisory authority. Write to us and we will honor them.
5. Retention
Your Verdeer record is retained for as long as your account is active, because the product's whole purpose is that the record compounds over time. Message bodies are never retained (3.2). Server logs are retained for a limited period. When you delete your account, its contents are deleted within 30 days, except where we are required to keep something to comply with a legal obligation.
6. Security
Access to your data requires authentication. Data is encrypted in transit, and stored on encrypted volumes. Google OAuth tokens are stored encrypted, are used only to perform the access described in this policy, and are destroyed when you disconnect or delete your account. No system is perfect, and we will not claim otherwise; if a breach affects your data we will tell you.
7. Children
Verdeer is built for experienced professionals and is not directed to anyone under 18. We do not knowingly collect information from children.
8. International users
Verdeer is operated from the United States, and information is processed there. If you use it from elsewhere, you are transferring your information to the United States.
9. Changes
If this policy changes in a way that materially affects how your data is handled, we will update the date at the top and notify account holders before the change takes effect. We will not apply a materially different use to data already collected without asking you first.
10. Contact
Questions, requests, or complaints: hello@verdeer.com.