Privacy notice.

The Candidature is a hosted SaaS product in private beta. This page explains what we collect to run the waitlist, authenticate accounts, prepare application materials, and improve the product.

What lives in your account

Your profile, resume material, job preferences, drafts, application history, and review decisions are stored so the product can prepare your search and remember your instructions. We use that data only to operate your account and support the workflows you ask us to run.

What we do collect

Early-access email

If you join the launch list, we store the email you submit, the source page, referrer, user agent, and whether the request came from a signed-in or anonymous visitor. We use it to send setup instructions before early access opens. We do not rent or sell the list.

Account email

When you sign up, we store the email you sign in with so we can authenticate you on return visits. We use Supabase for authentication. The email is not used for marketing.

Anonymous usage telemetry

The landing page uses Google Analytics to count visits, referrers, and section reads. This is aggregate and anonymous. It tells us whether the product story is being understood, not who is reading it. You can block this with any standard analytics blocker.

Product telemetry

We may store operational events such as onboarding progress, workflow state, and review decisions so we can debug the product and show you what happened. We do not sell this data or use it for ad targeting.

Authorized support access

If you ask us to investigate or repair an account issue, an authorized operator may use a local support session that acts on data owned by your user ID without creating a sign-in to your account. We record the target user ID, temporary role mode, action and path, request ID, timestamp, and outcome. The audit does not store request bodies, resume or job content, email addresses, or support session tokens. The short-lived support token stays in the operator's browser session storage and expires after eight hours.

What we never collect

• Payment card details for the waitlist.
• Recruiter commission or placement-fee data.
• Behavioral profiles for ad targeting.
• Third-party enrichment from data brokers.

What we do not sell

• Your resume material.
• Your drafted application content.
• Your target companies or search preferences.
• Behavioral profiles for ad targeting.

Cookies and storage

We use localStorage on your browser to remember small preferences, such as your theme and your dismissal of one-time prompts. We use a session cookie when you are signed in, for authentication only. We do not set advertising cookies.

Data we share with vendors

• Supabase · authentication, database, and file storage. Operated by Supabase.
• Google Analytics · aggregate landing-page traffic.

We do not sell data to anyone. We do not buy data about you from anyone. We do not enrich your record from third-party data brokers.

Your rights

You can ask us to delete your account or your early-access entry at any time. Write to james@thecandidature.com from the address on file and we will confirm and remove it.

Changes to this notice

If we change anything material, we will update the date at the top of this page and, if you have a seat, write to you before the change takes effect.