bettervetter Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-06-05

bettervetter is a Chrome extension that reads the job posting in your active tab and tells you, in plain language, whether you should apply. To do that it needs your resume, a short set of preferences about the kind of work you want, and the text of the postings you ask it to vet. This document describes exactly what it collects, where that information goes, how long it lives, and how you can delete it.

If anything here is unclear, email sean@seanelliot.dev.

Who runs this

bettervetter is built by an individual developer (Sean Elliot). There is no company, no marketing team, no data resale, and no third-party tracking. The service exists to be useful to a small number of beta users.

What's collected

From you, when you sign up

• Email address. Used to identify your account and to whitelist you against the beta access list. Stored.
• Password. Hashed with bcrypt (a one-way function) before storage. The plaintext is never written to disk and is discarded the moment your login request completes.

From you, when you set up your profile

• Resume text. Either pasted directly or extracted from a PDF you upload. Stored.
• Preferences. What you're optimizing your search for, any dealbreakers, calibration questions about past roles you loved or hated, target seniority, location preference, comp expectations, and similar fields. Stored.

From you, when you vet a role

• The job description text that bettervetter pulls from the page (Lever, Ashby, or LinkedIn job pages) or that you paste manually.
• The posting URL and page title of the role you're vetting.
• The fit read itself (the verdict, reasons, and headline the system produces). Stored against your account for the History tab.
• Optional tags you add later: outcome status (applied / interviewing / offer / passed) and whether the read influenced your decision (yes / no).

Automatically by the browser

• An authentication token stored in chrome.storage.local, which lets the extension stay signed in across browser restarts.
• A short-lived cache of the most recent job description extracted from a page, stored in chrome.storage.session. Cleared when the browser closes.

bettervetter does not collect: your browsing history, the contents of any page that isn't a job posting you actively ask it to read, your location, contacts, or any other browser-managed data.

What it does with that information

To do its job, bettervetter sends parts of your data to Anthropic (the company that runs the Claude AI model used to produce the read):

• Your resume is sent to Anthropic twice in the normal flow: once when you first save it, so the system can read it into structured fields, and again each time it's used to vet a role.
• The job description of a role is sent to Anthropic when you vet it — first to read the posting into structured form, then to produce the fit read.
• Your stated preferences are sent to Anthropic as part of each vet.

Anthropic processes these to generate the fit read and returns the result. Anthropic's own data handling is documented at anthropic.com/privacy. bettervetter does not train any model on your data — these are query/response API calls, not a training pipeline.

Aside from Anthropic, bettervetter does not share your data with any third party. The data is stored in a MongoDB Atlas database owned by the developer and accessed only by the bettervetter server.

Where it's stored

• Account information, resume, preferences, and vet history are stored in a MongoDB Atlas cluster.
• Authentication tokens and the short-lived JD cache live in your browser's chrome.storage and never reach a remote server (the auth token is sent only to the bettervetter API and only over HTTPS).
• No data is stored on Anthropic's servers beyond their standard inference logs (see their privacy policy).

All connections between the extension and the bettervetter server are over HTTPS.

How long it lives

Your data is retained for as long as your account exists. There is no automatic expiry — old vets stay in your history so you can revisit them.

When you delete your account (see below), every piece of your data is removed from the bettervetter database in a single cascading delete: every vet, your full profile, your resume, and your account record itself. There is no soft-delete and no archival copy.

How to delete your data

In the extension:

1. Click the hamburger menu (top-right of the side panel).
2. Select Manage account.
3. Scroll to the Delete account section.
4. Type DELETE to confirm.
5. Click Delete account.

This removes your account and all associated data immediately and irreversibly. If anything goes wrong with the in-app flow, email sean@seanelliot.dev and the developer will delete your account by hand.

Your other rights

You can request a copy of the data bettervetter holds on you by emailing the address above. You will receive it as a JSON export, typically within a few days.

If you live in a jurisdiction that grants you additional data-protection rights (the EU, UK, or California, for example), those rights apply here too — contact the email above to exercise them.

Children

bettervetter is for adults conducting a job search. It is not directed at children under 13, and the developer has no reason to believe any have signed up.

Changes to this policy

If the policy changes materially, the change will be announced in the extension's update notes and the Last updated date at the top of this document will move. Past versions remain available on the public GitHub repository.

Contact

sean@seanelliot.dev