Privacy
How we handle your data
Stay. Switch. Build. is a prototype. This page says what it does with what you give it, as built on October 8, 2026. It will be revised before launch, and the date above will change when it is.
What we collect
- The résumé file you upload, read into text. Only the text is used; the file itself is not stored.
- The location you type, if any (ZIP code or city), used for local wages, training, and job centers.
- A target occupation or a job posting you paste, if you give one.
- Your answers to the interest questions, your constraints, and your answers to any skill check you take.
- An email address, only if you add one on your report, and only for the two uses you choose there.
No account, no password, no cookies for tracking, no analytics scripts, no ads.
What happens to your résumé
The text is sent to Anthropic's Claude API to be read into a structured form: roles with dates, education, skills, tools, and certifications. Names and contact details are stripped in that step. The text is then used once more to find evidence for each skill the taxonomy asks about. When the analysis finishes, successfully or not, the text is deleted from our database. What remains is the parsed version your report is built from.
Your report shows the date and time the text was deleted. Analyses stored before this rule existed were cleaned the same way the first time the service started afterward.
What we keep, and for how long
The parsed résumé, your scores, your interests and constraints, your skill-check answers, and your consent record are kept so your report link keeps working and so your Step 2 results can be added to your Step 1 evidence. They stay until you delete them, or until the report has gone twelve months without being opened, at which point a daily job deletes it and everything tied to it. Opening the report resets that clock.
Skill-check questions are shared across people (one question is written per skill, level, and occupation and reused), so a question is never personal data. Your answers to it are, and they are deleted with everything else when you ask.
Who can see what
- You. Anyone with your report link can open the report and change the settings on it. There is no login, so the link is the key. Keep it private.
- An employer whose invite link you used. They never see your report, your résumé, your scores, or your name. They see counts and averages across people who opted in, and only once at least five have. You choose whether to be counted when you upload and can change or withdraw that on your report at any time.
- Nobody else. We do not sell or share personal data, and no ranking on the site is influenced by who pays.
Email and consent
Adding an address does nothing by itself. There are two separate consents on your report, each with its own checkbox: alerts when an opening matches your report, and introductions from employers hiring for one of your matches. Each grant and each withdrawal is timestamped and shown to you. Neither feature is running yet; when one starts, it will reach only people whose consent is on at that moment. Removing your address withdraws both.
Delete everything
The last section of your report has a delete button. It removes the analysis, the parsed résumé, interests and constraints, every skill check and answer, any workspace membership, your address, and the consent record, in one step, and the link stops working. There is no copy to restore from.
Services that receive data
- Yes, this site uses AI, and it is the same kind it measures. A language model (Anthropic's Claude, through its business API) reads your résumé into a structured list of roles, dates, skills, and tools, reads a job posting you paste, and grades written answers in Step 2. It does not rank you, decide anything about you, or see anything after that step. Under the business terms we use, Anthropic does not train its models on what we send. The exposure scores on your report come from published task-level research and observed usage data, not from the model's opinion of your job. Why we built it this way.
- CareerOneStop, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Adzuna, and employers' own career sites: receive an occupation code and a location, never your résumé or anything from it, to look up wages, training, job centers, and openings.
Questions
This is Dennis Kreger's project, built in Madison, Wisconsin. Questions, requests, or concerns about your data: privacy@stayswitchbuild.com. The report page gives you every control described above without needing to ask.